Just because Tan Sri Vincent Tan's second brother is relatively unknown, Tan Sri's picture was even shown on the post...
http://www.malaysia-chronicle.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=132152:double-tragedy-hits-vincent-tan%E2%80%99s-family&Itemid=2#axzz2ZtCd2oYy
Why was there a need to mention Vincent Tan in the headline, if not to sensationalise the news? I happened to know Tan Chee San in the 80s, when he was working for United Straits Fuso. A niece happened to work for Mrs. Tan in Sports Toto. He was unlucky then when his son (not sure if Kevin Tan) was kidnapped and he believed it was mistaken identity because CS looks remarkably like Tan Sri, apart from the moustache. Since the incidence, he gave up having nice car registration numbers like '888' and had police permission for dark tinted cars. I can still remember I innocently asked him about his new numbers and he reluctantly told me.
Why do I say the headline is inappropriate? All his brothers (including Tan Sri Danny Tan) took up a full page advertisement expressing their condolences to CS and family in The Star. So double tragedy befell on CS's family only, and to be more precise, if father-in-law of his son was to be taken as separate family, it cannot be described as CS's double tragedy.
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http://www.malaysia-chronicle.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=132152:double-tragedy-hits-vincent-tan%E2%80%99s-family&Itemid=2#axzz2ZtCd2oYy
Why was there a need to mention Vincent Tan in the headline, if not to sensationalise the news? I happened to know Tan Chee San in the 80s, when he was working for United Straits Fuso. A niece happened to work for Mrs. Tan in Sports Toto. He was unlucky then when his son (not sure if Kevin Tan) was kidnapped and he believed it was mistaken identity because CS looks remarkably like Tan Sri, apart from the moustache. Since the incidence, he gave up having nice car registration numbers like '888' and had police permission for dark tinted cars. I can still remember I innocently asked him about his new numbers and he reluctantly told me.
Why do I say the headline is inappropriate? All his brothers (including Tan Sri Danny Tan) took up a full page advertisement expressing their condolences to CS and family in The Star. So double tragedy befell on CS's family only, and to be more precise, if father-in-law of his son was to be taken as separate family, it cannot be described as CS's double tragedy.
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