Vol 6 (AAC) No 8 | SINGAPORE Masagos Zulkifli 31st May 2013 Senior Minister of State, Foreign Affairs, Singapore In May, Masagos Zulkifli bin Masagos Mohamad spent four days in South Africa and six days in Nigeria, where he held talks with government officials and business leaders. On his ...
Vol 6 (AAC) No 7 | GABONINDIASINGAPORE Middleman at the gate 2nd May 2013 On 26 April at the Libreville headquarters of Oil India Limited, Paul Maurice Tomo lay shirtless on the ground in front of a painted sheet that read: ‘Five years that this has las...
Vol 6 (AAC) No 4 | SINGAPORE Teo Eng Cheong 11th February 2013 Chief Executive Officer of International Enterprise Singapore Teo Eng Cheong, 46, is head of International Enterprise Singapore, a government-run board whose Global Company Partnership helps private companies with access to markets and fina...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 11 | SINGAPORE Kuok Khoon Hong 3rd September 2012 Chairman and CEO, Wilmar International, Singapore The head of Wilmar International, the world's largest palm oil producer, has pinned the future of his company on African growth. At an August results announcement, Kuok Khoon Hong,...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 9 | GABONSINGAPORE This land is not your land 30th June 2012 An agribusiness company’s projects across the country are facing opposition from local people and civil society groups Singapore’s Olam is riding a new wave of opposition to its industrial agriculture and fertiliser projects. Criticism of state-backed projects from inside the governing Parti Démocr...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 6 | SINGAPORE Zainul Abidin Rasheed 28th March 2012 Deputy Chairman, OM Holdings, Singapore The Singapore Business Federation’s African overtures continue. A delegation from SBF’s Africa Business Group was in Congo-Kinshasa and Congo-Brazzaville from 26 February to 4 Marc...
Vol 4 (AAC) No 12 | ANGOLACHINASINGAPOREAFRICA China Sonangol is open for business 5th October 2011 Transparency has not been a major feature of China Sonangol’s and China International Fund’s activities in Africa, but one of the investment vehicles is now embarking on a huma...
Vol 4 (AAC) No 9 | SINGAPORE Sellapan Ramanathan 13th July 2011 President Sellapan Ramanathan, more frequently known as S.R. Nathan, will step down at the end of his second six-year term on 1 September. The 87-year-old was still spry enough for a round o...
Vol 4 (AAC) No 7 | SINGAPOREAFRICA Big plans, small city-state 13th May 2011 Singapore is widening its net in Africa. The city-state’s trade with sub-Saharan Africa reached US$8.4 billion in 2009 and it punches above its weight in financial terms. Geographi...
Vol 4 (AAC) No 7 | ZIMBABWECHINASINGAPORE Trucks, triads and subs 13th May 2011 Few believe the official explanation that 87-year-old President Robert Mugabe’s frequent visits to Singapore are to monitor his February cataract operation or that he is being the ...