Is CCTV getting too close for comfort?

YouthInk writers give their take on whether installing closed-circuit television cameras in public areas is an invasion of privacy.
What is true deterrence?
ANTHONY Burgess’ novel, A Clockwork Orange, comes to mind when considering video surveillance.
The book’s protagonist undergoes the Ludovico Technique, a form of therapy designed to make criminals so averse to criminal acts that even [...]

Bilawal Bhutto – a young man living up to his family name

FIVE weeks ago, Bilawal Zardari was just one of many 19-year-old, first-year students at Oxford University.
Now, having taken on his mother Benazir Bhutto’s family name – a name which has long held political sway in secular Pakistan – his has become the name resonating in the minds of the faculty and students here in the [...]

Does a school environment nurture guile?

Can top students develop guile outside traditional hot-house schools? Mr Ngiam Tong Dow, a former civil servant and currently chairman of Surbana Corporation, suggested they might. YouthInk writers speak up.
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School of hard knocks
STREET smarts, a cunning mind and being business savvy are some habits that can be associated with the trait, guile. It is no [...]

How 9/11 has affected S’pore youths

On the eve of the sixth anniversary of the Sept 11 attacks on the World Trade Center, YouthInk writers consider the impact on their lives.
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Numbed by media attention
THE constant media onslaught in recent years covering terrorist events, from car bombs in Iraq to anthrax scares in the United States, has numbed us to the facts.
The [...]

Push for trilingual students: Language boon or barrier?

Incentives for students to pick up Malay were introduced at the National Day Rally. Will the move go down well?

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It simply makes economic sense
PRIME Minister Lee Hsien Loong has said that thus far, only one school has expressed interest in offering Bahasa Indonesia as a third language in its curriculum.
It’s a worrying uptake rate, considering [...]