OFT investigates 100 household brands over price-fixing allegations - Telegraph

Telegraph
This action by the OFT shows the advantages of having a fair trading office...

Chinese consumers know their rights

TODAYonline
What about you, the Singaporean?

BBC Action Network set to close on 30th April 2008

BBC - Action Network
BBC is pulling the plug. They have a comprehensive "How to get started" page on campaigning. Time to quickly skim through that resource and start saving them offline...

Toolkit on World Health Day 2008

It seems today is World Health Day. Anyway, sgwatchDOG is quite impressed with the toolkit page for the event. Useful info and ideas for NGOs campaigning for a cause, and not just relating to health, as the tips can be applied to any cause.

Enforcement action by MAS

Just spotted this on the MAS "Enforcement Actions" page (which is a link on the blog sidebar), which highlights that

Inter-Alliance International (Singapore) Pte Ltd (“IAIS”), a licensed financial adviser until 18 February 2008, has paid a composition amount of $50,000 for contravention of section 13(1) of the Financial Advisers Act (“FAA”). IAIS has also paid a composition amount of $6,250 for contraventions under the Insurance (Intermediaries) Regulations (“IIR”).

Not sure if this has been reported in the local media...

Film disallowed for SIFF 2008

The documentary, "Arabs And Terrorism", has been disallowed to be screened at the Singapore International Film Festival (SIFF). The following from the SIFF homepage.

3 April 2008
URGENT ANNOUNCEMENT:

Please note that the following film has been disallowed and will not be screened:

Title: Arabs And Terrorism
Date: 5 April 2008
Time: 11am
Venue: The Substation

It will be replaced with a screening of Amina(PG).

Ticket holders of Arabs And Terrorism can use their tickets for the replacement screening, or get a refund at the Festival Secretariat by 14th April 2008.

The synopsis of the film is below

Arabs and Terrorism
Bassam Haddad | USA | 2007 | 135 mins | TBA

Researched in six different languages, 11 countries, 120 experts and politicians as well as hundreds of street interviews, this fast-paced documentary is determined to unearth what is said about Arabs and Terrorism. Tired of empty rhetoric about the fight against terrorism from Washington, D.C. neo-conservatives (and curious of many assertions made by the Bush administration), Arab-American filmmaker Bassam Haddad decided to seek the truth for himself, camera-in-hand, and thus sparks an impassioned dialogue between right-wing American policymakers and Middle Eastern political factions.

Haddad's method of documentary involves having interviews with political power-players on each side of the transcontinental (and trans-ideological) fence - American and Arab; recording each interview on his laptop; and having each interviewee view and respond to allegations made by the other side. The result is a documentary that dares to journey into waters seldom treaded by other filmmakers, by travelling right to the core of the ideological debate that lies behind the war on terror and investigating what the Arab people actually think, believe and desire -- independent of media bias.