19 May 2006

Another "World First" By Singapore. Heheh.

I've previously commented about how Singapore has a habit of claiming to be world-class and world-best in this and that and this and that ... when it really isn't.

According to Channel News Asia, Singapore recently accomplished another "world first" in the area of engineering research. The blogger known as Gecko promptly exposes this to be untrue.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Channel News Asia should eat their shorts.

Anonymous said...

To be fair, NTU did not claim that what it did was a world first.

http://www.ntu.edu.sg/corpcomms2/releases/11%20May%2006%20Robotic%20fish%20(news%20release).pdf

It was CNA that did so.

http://www.ntu.edu.sg/corpcomms2/news/CNAonline_12May06_robotfish.pdf

CNA has since dropped the claim that it was a world first.

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/207996/1/.html