The following are two press releases from NTU:
First statement:
A 24 year-old male Chinese infocomm project officer, Zhou Zheng (周正), was found to have passed away in an apartment at Block 101C Nanyang Heights last night, Friday, 6 March 2009 at about 10.50pm. Professional counsellors and senior university officers were immediately on site to offer support, help and counsel where needed. Next-of-kin has been notified.
The university will ensure that every assistance is given to the family of the deceased. Says President, NTU Dr Su Guaning, “All of us are deeply saddened by the loss. The Board of Trustees, management, the NTU community and I offer our heartfelt condolences to the bereaved family.”
Second statement:
The late Mr Zhou Zheng, 24, from Hubei, China, graduated with a 2nd Class Upper Honours from NTU Electrical and Electronic Engineering in July 2008 last year. He started work with a company right after graduation. NTU understands that the company sent him overseas for training. Two months into the training, he was recalled along with other trainees and was laid off with a severance package. He joined NTU as a Project Officer on Monday, 2 March 2009.
TOC on-the-ground:
TOC reporter Deborah Choo, who is presently at NTU, filed this short report (15.26 hours): The area has been closed off. Doors sealed with red tape. One staff slammed door in my face. Declined comment. The rest were either not in or don’t want to talk. Students two levels down clueless, never even seen or knew who he (Zhou Zheng) was.
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Both “suicide students” worked in the same lab (S2-B3a-06).
Read below blog for confirmation.
//www.gabrielsai.com/blog/2009/03/a-conspiracy-theory-on-deaths-in-ntu.html
What is happening to these group of students in NTU?
I think in future, people in SEA are not going to send their children to Singapore to study.
He joined NTU in the day the first case happened. (2/3/2009)
what a sad thing..
is it possible copycat suicide?
I think the current economic situation adds much stress to many, in particular graduating students (like myself, but I kinda convinced myself not to be bothered by it).
So please, everyone, and especially students, look around you and see if any of your friends are in need of help. Do not shrug off someone just because you yourself are busy.
Don’t say too early… later in the week maybe you see an SGian die there. (touch wood) I think there may be something going on that we don’t know.
May be that place is haunted?
Or may be they looked like suicides but might not actually be suicides.
Police should investigate thoroughly to find out whether something was amiss.
But I don’t have faith in our police because they still cannot find Mas Selamat ….
so how can we expect them to solve such mysterious cases professionally?
These people from PRC bet everything, their life savings, their possessions, their lives to come to Singapore to study and for a passport to a better life. When things fail them, they go back to nothing, to a life of poverty, deprivation, to join millions like them who sleep at train stations, bus terminii, because to go back to their village, it means shame, embarrassment, humiliation. A Professor earns peanuts in China, whereas out of Singapore, with a Degree and a job, that is something no PRC can let go and live life as usual again.
more fodder to feed creative conspiracy theorists out there..