by Soo-Inn Tan | Apr 26, 2002 | 2002, Articles, Justice, World Issues
He had worked for the company for the better part of a decade. Although he was a just a junior partner, his technical expertise and networking abilities had been instrumental in making his company the leader in its field. The company was going for an IPO. He was about...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Dec 7, 2001 | 2001, Articles, Justice, Violence, World Issues
“Be quiet or we will shoot you all!” By now the 21 hostages taken from Sipadan Island by the Abu Sayyaf would have gone through 19+ days of captivity. Hostages go through well documented phases depending on how long they are in captivity – shock,...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Nov 15, 2001 | 2001, Articles, Ethics, World Issues
Please read the following: “It is hard to be sure of anything among so many marvels. The world is all grown strange. Elf and Dwarf in company walk in our daily fields; and folk speak with the Lady of the Wood and yet live; and the Sword comes back to war that...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Oct 11, 2001 | 2001, Articles, Violence, World Issues
Remember the Marshall plan? Named after the then U.S. Secretary of State, George C. Marshall(1947), it was a financial aid programme funded by the United States, “for the recovery of war-devastated Europe: former Allies, belligerents and neutrals…all that...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Sep 12, 2001 | 2001, Articles, Violence, World Issues
“..pie in the sky by and by when you die..” Atheistic communism used to throw this taunt at Christianity. Believing that ‘religion was the opiate of the masses’, communism saw Christianity as a threat to its programme of building a just...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Sep 6, 2001 | 2001, Articles, Ethics, World Issues
TIME Magazine–reliable newsweekly or trojan horse for ungodly values? Well, both actually. In a rapidly shrinking world, TIME, and other weeklies like NEWSWEEK and ECONOMIST provide well written articles and editorials that help one understand the world. But...
