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When parents take their children’s lives

Today, Singapore was shaken by the news of the deaths of a family of four in Tampines Street 44. A 40-year-old Chinese man was found dead at the bottom of a block of HDB flats this morning. Police later found the bodies of a 39-year-old Chinese woman, a 12-year-old boy and a 4-year-old girl in [...]

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Still envy our children?

School starts today for more than 500,000 children across the island this new year. As these children stream back to their schools and begin looking around in their new classrooms, some of them may notice a classmate or schoolmate missing. And they may realise that the tsunami which took place far from our shores over [...]

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Over-indulging our children

The ‘N’ Levels are almost over, save for subjects such as Accounts. The end-of-year exams for secondary schools are also coming to an end early this week.
 
So with secondary schools closing within this month for the end-year holidays, there are many youngsters pouring out into the streets and shopping malls beginning this week and lasting [...]

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When children commit suicide

Just when I am relishing being alive on this good earth exactly 45 years after my birth, along comes a stark reminder that this fragile thing called life may not be sweet-tasting to some others who would rather end it all at a tender age than choose to grow old.

I was jolted into silence [...]