University World News, 5 Apr 2009, Colin A Sharp
Singapore's academic community has become increasingly concerned about a succession of deaths at the Nanyang Technology University campus, with at least two apparent student suicides in one week, one of them linked to the murder of an academic, as well as a fatal car accident - all in the space of three weeks and all from the same faculty.
The murder-suicide involved an Indonesian student who was in his final year of an engineering degree. The student allegedly stabbed his professor after his Asean scholarship was revoked. He is then believed to have thrown himself off a student building.
The death of a research fellow in the car accident and the other student suicide, who was also a Chinese national, involved Nanyang's school of electrical and electronic engineering. A report in last week's Singapore Sunday Times said the university would not comment on the series of events. Despite this, some writers in the Singapore press have suggested the deaths point to a possible trend.
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