Temasek Holdings wants Temasek Review to change its name
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really wayang.
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Temasek Review has changed to New Temasek Review.
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Oct 20, 2010 - Straits Times
Temasek Review renamed
by Rachel Chang
TEMASEK Review, the stridently anti-government socio-political website that was asked last week by Temasek Holdings to change its name, has done so.
The name that appeared on its masthead on Wednesday, five days after the request from Temasek Holdings: New Temasek Review.
No reason was given for the choice of the new name. Temasek Holdings' spokesman also declined to comment when contacted on Wednesday night.
Temasek Holdings issued a letter via the media last Friday asking the website to change its name, arguing that 'Temasek Review' was a term 'indisputably associated' with the investment company and that the website was just trying to capitalise on the goodwill and reputation linked to it.
The same letter was also sent to a Dr Joseph Ong, a general practitioner whom The New Paper reported as being a founder of the website. Dr Ong, however, told The Straits Times last Friday that while he had been involved with the website from about three years ago, he had stopped last year.
The website also stated in a post that appeared on Saturday: 'He (Dr Ong) is not in a position to receive any notices or communication on our behalf. Our official email address and webform is the only acceptable means of communication with us.'
In the same post, signed by one 'Amanda Tan', it asked Temasek Holdings if the latter claimed 'exclusive rights to the word 'Temasek' around the world'. It also wanted to know if it was taking issue only with the site name, or with both the site name and the domain name, and if Temasek Holdings intended to acquire the domain name from the current owners.
Queries sent by this newspaper to the website have consistently gone unanswered. A footnote on the webpage says: 'We will NOT entertain any request for email interview or follow up from journalist from Singapore Press Holdings but welcome all other journalist from around the world.'
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Originally posted by Clivebenss:
Temasek Review has changed to New Temasek Review.
Change whatever they want lah...life still the same. -
Now change back to The Temasek Review.
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Haha... 24 hours change only???? Haha....
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Originally posted by Junyang700:
Haha... 24 hours change only???? Haha....
less than 24 hrs.
Internet is versatile.
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Originally posted by Clivebenss:
Now change back to The Temasek Review.
Back to normal name? -
They should change to Wayang @ Temasek.
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Originally posted by likeyou:
Back to normal name?nothing is normal in the internet.
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Originally posted by Clivebenss:
nothing is normal in the internet.
hahaha...all sort of pple.... -
Oct 21, 2010 - Straits Times
Name change due to a lapse
by Bryan Huang
THE Temasek Review, which on Wednesday night carried a masthead that displayed 'New Temasek Review', has claimed that the name change was due to a slow response from its web host.
Temasek Review, a socio-political website, did not give any reason for the apparent name change at the time, which was reported by local media.
In a reply to The Straits Times article posted on the Temasek Review website, an editor's note said: 'Our tech was working on a new layout for our site on the slave server and had changed the site name there to NEW for easy reference but the instruction given to our host to suspend the hardware load balancer was only acknowledged by them an hour late, hence causing the name change to be replicated to all servers in the cluster.
'This was discovered hours later by our tech and corrected.'
Temasek Review said it 'regretted the confusion caused' and wished to clarify that it had not heard from Temasek Holdings. It added that it would only change the site's name after it has received an official request from Temasek Holdings and a 'satisfactory reply' to queries it has sent to the government investment company.
Earlier on Wednesday night, Temasek Holdings' spokesman declined to comment when contacted about the 'name change'.
Temasek Holdings issued a letter via the media last Friday asking the website to change its name, arguing that 'Temasek Review' was a term 'indisputably associated' with the investment company and that the website was just trying to capitalise on the goodwill and reputation linked to it.