Every April Fools' Day, the Straits Times will include one fake news report in its broadsheet, often on the front page itself.
Here are the two frontline stories in today's edition of the ST:
Singapore exams go regional, where it seems there are actually fools in the Ministry of Education who want to export our exam system, and fools in other countries who want to buy it.
The other headline?
Commuters to share train security costs. Where Singaporean citizens will pay for the extravagant, needless, and ineffective "security measures" that our paranoid leaders will be installing for our rail network - armed marshals on every train, along with selective luggage checks that will make a mockery out of the phrase "Mass Rapid Transit".
It is a sign of the times that the second story is NOT the april fools' joke, and the improbable news is actually from the first headline.
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