TR EMERITUS

I read with horror on the report that a public figure, albeit a TV personnel, was given 15 months’ probation for clashing with a cab driver. It was a big pay day for Quan Yifeng’s lawyer and psychiatrist as their successful, virtually insanity plea managed to “con” the judge into offering probation. Mind you, this mentally... 

2011 will be remembered as a year of extreme turbulence. From Arab Spring uprising culminated in violent revolution and regime change in MENA to Fukushima twinning of earthquake/tsunami and nuclear disaster, the unprecedented massive month–long flooding in Thailand and near implosion of sovereign debt crisis in Europe, this... 

Robert Dahlberg, a 34-year-old New Zealander, was charged with assault and causing grievous bodily harm when he and two other foreign nationals, an Australian and a Briton, beat up four people at Suntec City in April 2010. The three men were drunk when they attacked four taxi drivers and passengers, cutting the face and breaking...