TR EMERITUS

I WAS disappointed to read that there were too few members in a recent Parliament sitting to pass two Bills ("Eugene Tan keeps an eagle eye on quorum numbers"; last Tuesday). A few questions came to my mind. First, MPs voted in by the people are the voice of the people in the House. But how are they going to be the people's... 

(10 Jul) - Li Huabo, a former Chinese government official sentenced to 15 months in jail for receiving stolen money in his Singapore bank accounts, lost his appeal to overturn his conviction. “I find there was no injustice in convicting and sentencing the appellant,” Singapore High Court Justice Choo Han Teck said in his... 

(7 Jul) - Trouble is looming at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant, as a leak has forced the shutdown of a cooling system that could cause temperatures to exceed dangerous levels. Fukushima operator Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) was forced to switch off the cooling system at Reactor Unit 5, after engineers discovered it...