I’ve always wondered why SIAS had been quiet on the lack of news from Sino-E’s board on what was being done to protect the assets and business of the company. I had tot that maybe company had quietly assured SIAS that things were in motion but that publicity could cause problems.
So I was surprised to read in Wednesday’s papers that SIAS had gone public on Tuesday, saying it had asked asked questions since December, but had been ignored. ST also reported that Sino-E had responded in a sense. No wonder it didn’t earlier reply or inform shareholders, the news is not reassuring. Bugger-all has been done other than reconstituting the board and appointing a CEO. Production has ceased, and the cash has not been secured.
Though to be fair, the board is S’pore-based, while business, assets are in a faraway district in a faraway province from Beijing or Shanghai in China. And the board could could argue that since the shares are still suspended, there was no need to upset shareholders with the bad news.
Let’s hope that SIAS has learnt that a nicely, nicely approach could be taken as a sign of weakness and impotence. More and louder growls, pls. If nec, howls pls. Wolves are feared: lap dogs and toothless mutts are not. As MM has said, S’poreans needed to be spurred.
