TR EMERITUS

Yesterday (16 Apr), TRE published a story about an Indian national turned Singaporean, Nisha Padmanabhan, who is employed by IDA ('IDA defends staff who obtained MBA from degree mill'). As it turns out, the MBA that Ms Padmanabhan obtained was from a degree mill, the Southern Pacific University (SPU). SPU is not accredited... 

Despite facing a possible jail term of up to 21 years and $35,000 in fines, Australian Ms Ai Takagi, the administrator of 'The Real Singapore' (TRS) has vowed to keep the website going in a city state that she said “stifles dissenting voices”. The 22-year-old final year law student at the University of Queensland and her... 

Last month (6 Mar), it was reported by BBC that customs officials in Bangladesh have seized gold worth around US$1.7m from the hand luggage of a North Korean diplomat ('Bangladesh seizes gold from North Korean diplomat'). Mr Son Young-nam, first secretary at the North Korean embassy in Bangladesh, landed in Dhaka on a flight...