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S’pore Red Cross: Donations were all made explicitly for China

Earlier, a TR Emeritus' (TRE) reader wrote in to highlight a news article from China: http://news.163.com/12/1017/01/8DVTUT3L00014JB6.html. In the news article dated 17 Oct, it reported that Singapore's Red Cross society will donate RMB15 million (S$3 million) to China’s Red Cross society to help earthquake victims in Sichuan,...

‘Porn Scholar’ Alvin Tan: I will not pay a single cent to NUS if I am expelled

Defiant Malaysian porn star cum Singapore ASEAN Scholarship recipient Alvin Tan Jye Yee has vowed that he will not repay a single cent to National University of Singapore (NUS) should he be expelled from it. Alvin Tan came to Singapore at 14 years of age on an ASEAN scholarship to study in Sin Ming Secondary School. He subsequently...

S’porean PR from China ashamed of behaviour of fellow PRCs

A male PRC passenger on board a Singapore-bound Jetstar flight had apparently assaulted an air stewardess when told to sit down. The PRC was traveling with his wife and kid on board Jetstar flight 3K538. The plane was descending and the seat-belt signs were on when the mother took her kid to the toilet. The air stewardess was...