{"id":3397,"date":"2012-12-27T12:01:40","date_gmt":"2012-12-27T04:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ada.asia\/?p=3397"},"modified":"2012-12-27T12:01:40","modified_gmt":"2012-12-27T04:01:40","slug":"the-misfit-finds-his-niche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ada.asia\/the-misfit-finds-his-niche\/","title":{"rendered":"The Misfit Finds His Niche"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When he was just 12 years old, Jacki Ng masterminded a bold criminal scheme.<\/p>\n<p>Then a member of a street gang, he cajoled a 17-year-old fellow ruffian to steal a cheque belonging to the latter&#8217;s uncle.<\/p>\n<p>Ng wrote it out for $20,000, forged the signature and instigated another 17-year-old to cash it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I had elaborate plans for the money. I wanted to start a sustainable loan shark venture,&#8221; says Mr Ng, now 37.<\/p>\n<p>But the teenager who tried to cash the cheque got caught.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The bank found him suspicious and reported him to the police. He was arrested, and after that, so was I,&#8221; he adds.<\/p>\n<p>The older boy was sentenced to a year in jail. Ng was let off with a stern warning because he was a minor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was a horrible kid, and that was a horrible thing I did,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p>The horrible kid is today a legitimate entrepreneur.<\/p>\n<p>Read the rest of the article: <a href=\"http:\/\/business.asiaone.com\/news\/the-misfit-finds-his-niche\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/business.asiaone.com\/news\/the-misfit-finds-his-niche<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ada.asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/Jacking.jpg\" alt=\"jacking\" itemprop=\"image\"  \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When he was just 12 years old, Jacki Ng masterminded a bold criminal scheme. Then a member of a street gang, he cajoled a 17-year-old fellow ruffian to steal a cheque belonging to the latter&#8217;s uncle. Ng wrote it out for $20,000, forged the signature and instigated another 17-year-old to cash it. &#8220;I had elaborate [&#8230;]\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3398,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ada.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3397"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ada.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ada.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ada.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ada.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ada.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ada.asia\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ada.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ada.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ada.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}