IN 2000, Nobel Prize-winning group Medecins Sans Frontieres registered as a charity in Singapore, hoping to raise funds and recruit volunteers for its overseas humanitarian missions.
Two years later, it packed up and left.
In 2006, animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta) tried to protest against fast-food chain KFC's treatment of chickens. But its two activists were detained and deported before they could get started.
Find out why it pays to do good in Lee Hui Chieh's full story in Saturday's edition of The Straits Times.
