TR EMERITUS

TRE reader Kampong Boy wrote in to complain about poor crowd management at the Singapore Zoo especially during Chinese New Year ('Poor crowd management at Singapore Zoo during CNY'). He moaned: A visit to the Zoo during the Chinese New Year is a sure guarantee that you will not want to visit it again anytime soon. The worst... 

Reporters Without Borders (Reporters Sans Frontières, or RSF) released its annual press freedom ranking - 2014 World Press Freedom Index - yesterday (12 Feb) [Link]. The index spotlights major declines in media freedom in such varied countries as the United States, Central African Republic and Guatemala and, on the other hand,... 

Singaporeans living in the eastern part of Singapore have complained to TRE that the haze has returned. A TRE reader living in the Kembangan area said, "At about 2.30am today (13 Feb), I detected a thick acrid smell in the air. At first I thought it might be a nearby Chinese temple burning incense paper, but then I realised...