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ST blames ‘millionaire’ cabby for its misreporting

The Straits Times earlier reported a news about a cab driver, Mr Mohammed Hasnor Bin Hashim, who quit his $5,000 a month job as a security manager to become a cab driver (‘Ex-manager earns $7,000 as cabby‘). It even reported that on average, this cab driver earns about $7,000 a month, working from Monday to Saturday. After...

Laws allow ex-Filipinos to re-acquire their local citizenship easily

A TR Emeritus (TRE) reader has sent in this information [Link]. Apparently, under the laws of the Philippines, a Philippine citizen who has given up his citizenship to become a citizen of another country can easily re-acquire or claim back his Philippine citizenship. This law was in fact enacted in the Philippines in 2003 called...

Straits Times: We’re still Spore’s most-read

ST is doing a lot of promotions lately to get people to subscribe to ST. The Straits Times (ST) wrote the headline, "ST still Spore's most-read", after Nielsen released its Media Index Report 2012 yesterday on 2 Nov ('Nielsen’s report: Digital news media consumption going up while print news media’s coming down'). ST wrote,...