The houses appear quiet behind their darkened windows, but not everyone's asleep. There are the night owls. As we say in the newspaper business, The New Paper is put to bed. But it never goes to sleep. It's not as strange as it sounds.
Any newspaper has to be put to bed - prepared for publication.
For instance, this column had to be ready last night. So no matter what the hour, you will always find someone in our newsroom at News Centre in Genting Lane. After a certain hour past midnight, The Straits Times newsroom at Times House on Kim Seng Road can be like a haunted house, desolate and abandoned, because the staff have all gone home. Not so at THIS paper. As the graveyard shift wraps up for the night, the first of the early morning shift breezes in.