Problem Based Learning 01 - Part 02

Please read the following news articles from various sources.

“A NANYANG Technological University professor was stabbed by his final-year project student, who later fell off a bridge linking two buildings on the Boon Lay campus on Monday morning.” Straits Times, 2 March 2009.

http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_344879.html

http://theonlinecitizen.com/2009/03/stabbing-incident-in-ntu-is-it-really-an-attack/comment-page-1/

http://asia.cnet.com/blogs/geekonomics/post.htm?id=63009411

http://bbqchickenwings.blogspot.com/2009/03/conspiracy-theory-in-ntu-stabbing.html

http://static.stomp.com.sg/static/thecourtroom/ntu/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXOHcOlK4NQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmIYedUnqiA&feature=related

This news shocked the entire NTU community and has given rise to many theories on why the student stabbed his professor before jumping to his death. This has also raised the question on whether citizen journalism can be a good thing for Singapore and also whether mainstream news channels like the Straits Times is being objective in their reporting. The link below gives us the ethics journalists in Asia has to abide by.

http://www.medialaw.com.sg/ethics/jcode.htm