Mr Sam Lee, 33, watched the video clip of his trishaw rider father being taunted by three United Kingdom (UK) tourists in Singapore, after a cousin told him about it.

What angered him most was that the men had made his father look like a beggar, asking for a fare that he had earned from ferrying all three of them on a 10-minute ride in downtown Singapore.

Interviewed by The New Paper, he said the part that hit him most was when he watched his father stretch out his hand to ask the men for his fare.

He said: "It really kicked in at that portion. I felt very irritated because it made him look like a beggar."

Now, he has three requests for the three men who had such fun at his father's expense.

He wants them to:

(1) Write a formal apology. And no, email or Internet posting will not do.
(2) Pay his father the amount - $15 - that they had not paid for that trishaw ride.
(3) Take a video of themselves carrying any three old people and post it on YouTube (where they had posted their video of the senior Mr Lee).

Any the elder Lee's reaction to all this?

The 67-year-old said to The New Paper in Cantonese: "It's a small matter - it is only a small amount of money."

For more details as well as reactions around the world, read today's The New Paper.

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