TR EMERITUS

I am proud to have served Singapore during my National Service. It is deeply upsetting to me that rumours have been circulating that impugn my integrity and the institution of National Service. After completing my A-levels in 1987, I joined my cohort entering National Service in 1988. After completing Basic Military Training... 

By Maureen Dowd, New York Times, 19 July 2011 Right before a clown threw blue shaving cream on Rupert Murdoch and Murdoch’s pink-clad wife threw a roundhouse at the clown, the most powerful media mogul in history was reminiscing about his father. In a meeting last week in London with the parents of the murdered 13-year-old... 

Letchmi (not her real name), a 40-year-old Singaporean woman, stood in the dock and pleaded guilty to pilfering $743 from the cash register where she worked as a cashier at a local supermarket. She told the judge in mitigation that she stole the money to pay for her medical expenses and that she had a 10-year-old daughter to...