http://www.thepunch.com.au/author-bios/su-lin-tan/ Su-Lin threw out her corporate pinstripe suit for the pen and a whole lot less money. She was a Melbourne University business graduate who went on to do her finance pilgrimage in London after many hours spent in the audit room of a big accounting firm. She has spent time in many a corporate cubicle, including those of AMP and what was Babcock & Brown. Her longstanding affair with the Excel spreadsheet means she can probably concoct a lethal dose of words and numbers into a yarn. Business aside, she enjoys writing a good death-defying travel story or, be in one, and calls a town named Johor Bahru in Malaysia her birthplace. en Copyright 2013 The Punch penberthyd@newsltd.com.au penberthyd@newsltd.com.au Thu, 14 Mar 2013 19:00:10 +0000 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 19:00:10 +0000 Politics, opinion, world news, sports news, latest news, views, Barack Obama, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Nathan Rees, Malcolm Turnbull, Peter Garrett, Barnaby Joyce, Australian, federal politics, opinion polls, election, The Punch, thepunch, punch ExpressionEngine 1.6.7 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 15 http://www.thepunch.com.au/images/punch-logo-rss.png http://www.thepunch.com.au/ 144 70 Politics, political opinion, world news, sports news and the latest news and views updated live, daily on The Punch - Australia's best conversation. Search The Punch keywords http://www.thepunch.com.au/search/ http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Racism-has-no-home-among-the-gumtree-ads/ Perhaps the bigger problem with the recent racist Coles ad is that Coles and its team of contractors do not think India is part of Asia. The ad, which was placed on Gumtree by one of Coles’ cleaning subcontractors, says “Store requires no indians or asians please. MUST SPEAK ENGLISH”. The embarrassment for Australia’s major supermarket and its contractors and subcontractors, or whoever Coles is alluding to, is that it has no idea about the geography of our neighbours. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Su-Lin Tan) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Racism-has-no-home-among-the-gumtree-ads/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Racism-has-no-home-among-the-gumtree-ads/#item9398 Tue, 04 Sep 2012 19:34:35 +0000 Su-Lin Tan | Author bios | The Punch http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Bullying-at-work-is-often-worse-than-the-playground/ If we look under the rug of workplaces, we might see a mountain of things swept underneath, one of which might be a crumpled list of offending employees. No, not for stealing the office stationery, but far something far more severe and far less dealt with. Workplace bullying is a new crime that rarely sees justice. Few workplaces care about it. You couldn’t cut through the apathy with a saw. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Su-Lin Tan) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Bullying-at-work-is-often-worse-than-the-playground/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Bullying-at-work-is-often-worse-than-the-playground/#item8960 Thu, 12 Jul 2012 19:45:55 +0000 Su-Lin Tan | Author bios | The Punch http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/the-mystery-suitor-who-made-djs-look-like-fools/ The business world’s obsession with private equity firms is compulsive - akin to a 16-year-old’s first infatuation. The seduction of the mysterious or the unknown, depending on how you look at it, is irresistible. Such is the case with David Jones’s mysterious suitor EB Private Equity, the little-known UK private equity firm, whose website boasts credentials in commercial real estate investment. Corporate buzzwords such as mezzanine and structured finance and joint ventures fill its pages with hopes of new money to be made. And new money has indeed been thrown at David Jones to the tune of $1.65 billion, about $3.12 per share. Last Friday, David Jones announced to the market EB had approached them with a bid to buy its business. The market reacted to the news with a near 20 percent rise in David Jones’s share price bringing the price to a three month high. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Su-Lin Tan) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/the-mystery-suitor-who-made-djs-look-like-fools/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/the-mystery-suitor-who-made-djs-look-like-fools/#item8886 Tue, 03 Jul 2012 19:55:26 +0000 Su-Lin Tan | Author bios | The Punch