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Monday With The Editor

SARS invades our lives

Just last week, in this column, I was telling the readers on this Web site that we should go on with our routine in spite of the war in Iraq and the SARS health scare. I said that we should take control of our lives and not let terrorists dictate terms to us. I added [...]

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Monday With The Editor

Taking control of our own lives

Today’s the first day of school in the Second Term for primary and secondary school students in Singapore. It was a week’s break for these kids. Yet, in the space of only a week, so much has happened in the world. For one thing, coalition forces are attacking Iraq to liberate its people from a [...]

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Monday With The Editor

Using the staring ploy to commit robbery

Yesterday morning, I read a newspaper report about two teenagers being bullied into giving up their handphones. According to the report, some older boys who were complete strangers accused them of staring and took them to an HDB block where the two were relieved of their wallets and phones.

Now that set my memory abuzz. I [...]