UPDATED [11:25am 24 April 2013. Adds information from police and acquaintances of the deceased.]
A Year One student from the National University of Singapore (NUS) University Scholars' Programme (USP) was found dead in the varsity's UTown campus.
21-year-old Peter Huen Kam Fai was found dead in his room late Tuesday afternoon at the Cinnamon College. The cause of death has yet to be confirmed but Yahoo! Singapore understands he was found hanging.
Police said they received a call on Tuesday at 5:06pm requesting for assistance at College Ave East.
Upon arrival, they found a male Chinese motionless at the location. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police said they are investigating the "unnatural death".
An NUS spokesperson revealed, in an official statement, that "the student was found in his room by a university staff" and that "police investigations are ongoing."
Huen, who was majoring in Political Science, is also understood to have been an active sportsman, and was part of the USP Foosball Club.
An NUS graduate who used to play floorball in school with the deceased but did not want to be named told Yahoo! SingaporeHuen's death was "really unexpected because you could never tell he was suicidal". Huen had also stopped turning up for games "for a while", the person added.
The source further pointed out that Huen's "last Facebook post was in mid-March", despite being someone who "used to post pretty often".
News of Huen's death quickly spread on social media.
A post on popular local forum Eat Drink Man Woman by his former teacher at Hwa Chong Institution, Charles Low, said the "world has lost a good man today".
He added that Huen would be missed for his quiet confidence, his wit and self-deprecating humour and willingness to help others. It's also understood he had a passion for writing and the humanities.
23-04-2013, 11:45 PM
Dear gentlemen,
For those of us who knew Peter, pls join me in a moment of silence as we remember him, his quiet confidence, his wit and self-deprecating humour, his ever-ready willingness to help others, his passion for the humanities and for writing.
The world has lost a good man today but his memory lives on in those of us who were blessed to have walked a part of our lives together with him.
Take care, Peter. We'll catch up with you one day.
Once ProEd, Always ProEd
Your teacher,
Charles Low
A fellow resident of Cinnamon College, who also did not wish to be named, described Huen as "always well-liked... always with a smile."
This was the second piece of tragic news to hit NUS this week.
On Tuesday, the wife of NUS professor, Gong Jiangbin, was killed in an accident with an SBS double-decker bus.
Zhang Hui Rui, 43, died after being hit and dragged by bus service 78, which was turning into Clementi Avenue 3.
A month or 2 ago, a young student living in the same block of university apartments as The Daughter, hanged himself. Another young man looked across the space between the 2 blocks of flats and saw him hanging by the neck on a rope. The university broke into the apartment and took down the lifeless body. The young man was a top student in a top junior college. It seemed to all that he was destined for the best scholarship and the best university in the world.
In . The . World.
On the day of his A level exam, he walked into the hall with an mp3 player. The penalty was heavy indeed. His entire paper was voided. He left his top junior college with a marred A level certificate. He also left with a record of having attempted to "cheat".
