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Singapore: censorship city
Index on Censorship —
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Ben Bland is the latest journalist to be barred from working in Singapore. Here, he explains the city state’s stranglehold on free expression When Reporters without Borders released its annual press freedom index last month, the Singapore government was not best pleased to find the city-state ranked 133rd out ...4 days ago -
Orhan Pamuk, Meghnad Desai top bestselling authors
Thaindian News —
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New Delhi, Nov 27 (IANS) Nobel Prize winning writer Orhan Pamuk’s “The Museum of Innocence” tops the fiction list this week while Meghnad Desai’s “The Rediscovery of India” leads the books in the non-fiction bestsellers.Here are the top 10 in the non-fiction and fiction categories:Non-Fiction1. “The ...1 week ago -
MM Lee: My insistence on bilingualism was wrong
The Online Citizen —
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Excerpts from Channelnewsasia: Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew said his insistence on bilingualism in the early years of education policy was “wrong”. Instead it caused generations of students to be put off by the Chinese language. Speaking first in Mandarin and then in English at the official opening of the ...2 weeks ago -
Dow Jones ordered to pay PM & SM S$400,000
The Online Citizen —
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From AFP: A magazine and its editor have been ordered to pay Singapore’s prime minister and his father over 400,000 dollars (290,000 US) for defamation, court documents showed Tuesday. The High Court ordered the Review Publishing Company, publisher of the Far Eastern Economic Review (FEER), and editor Hugo ...2 weeks ago -
S’pore’s 2nd longest-held political prisoner speaks
The Online Citizen —
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Dr Lim Hock Siew is Singapore’s second longest-held political prisoner. He was accused of being a communist and was arrested without trial in 1963 in Operation Coldstore. After 9 years in detention, he was asked to issue a statement of “repentence and contrition”, which he refused. His sentence was then extended ...2 weeks ago -
Bring on the Daisies, and Those Acts of Kindness
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A volunteer for the Singapore Kindness movement handed out daisies on Friday.2 weeks ago -
GPPN Conference Day 2
The Morningside Post —
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SIPA students Jennifer Fong and John Dulac were among the presenters at day 2 of the conference Day two topics at the 2009 GPPN Conference included “Economic and Environmental Sustainability” and “Economic Crisis and Asia” featuring speakers from the Singapore Ministry of Environment and Water Resources, ...2 weeks ago -
Asia-Pacific summit seeks more US engagement (Lead)
Thaindian News —
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Singapore, Nov 14 (DPA) The 16th Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit kicked off Saturday with calls for greater US engagement in the region.US President Barack Obama, although he failed to attend the opening session of the APEC summit, made known his commitment to the region Saturday morning in Tokyo.“As ...2 weeks ago -
US ready to engage in Trans-Pacific Partnership
Thaindian News —
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Singapore, Nov 14 (DPA) The US Saturday announced its readiness to engage in the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade deal as an initial step towards moulding a region-wide free trade agreement (FTA) with the Asia-Pacific.The announcement was made in Tokyo Saturday by US President Barack Obama, according to US Trade ...2 weeks ago -
Sucking demigods’ toes
The Online Citizen —
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I sometimes wonder why people don’t seem to feel embarrassed. They hold high positions; they can’t be stupid to have gotten to where they are. Yet they kowtow to their political masters so low, they not only kiss their feet, but suck their toes. Alex Au, Yawning Bread Related Posts Singapore’s ...3 weeks ago -
Politicians’ personal sacrifices – lets have a sense of proportion
The Online Citizen —
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Just because Indranee and Shangmugum earn less now (but still in the millions) does it mean that they are sacrificing their bloody selves? Hello, do we want to put them in the same league as Mother Theresa or Mahatma Ghandi next? Let’s have a sense of proportion. Blogger, Feed Me To The Fish Related Posts ...3 weeks ago -
Rubbish? Look who’s talking
The Online Citizen —
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Andrew Loh & Ravi Philemon “Come election time, they talk a lot of things, which is rubbish… This is a government which chooses its MPs very carefully; test them out before they become ministers that’s why it is working. The present ministers can last ten years…” That quote is by Minister Mentor (MM) ...3 weeks ago -
The good life for younger generation a problem for Singapore – Lee Kuan Yew
The Online Citizen —
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If every time we run into a problem and the younger generation has grown up for the last 20, 30 years knowing only improvements in life, more income, better surroundings, better everything… that’s a problem. MM Lee Kuan Yew Related Posts Life in Singapore Foreign workers are akin to the lowest life ...3 weeks ago -
The problem of genius in Singapore.
The boy who knew too much: a child prodigy —
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Singapore is notable for proclaiming itself as "No.1" in everything it can. At times, this is amusing, as ever more minor matters are proclaimed to be supreme achievements. Yet, in the realms of true achievements, Singapore is distinctly lacking. Where, for instance, are Singapores geniuses?By "genius", I do not mean ...3 weeks ago -
Lee Kuan Yew and Language Education in Singapore.
The boy who knew too much: a child prodigy —
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Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew, was quoted, recently, in Petir, the Peoples Action Party magazine, as saying: "Initially, I believed that intelligence was equated to language ability. Later, I found that they are two different attributes - IQ and a facility for languages. My daughter, a neurologist, confirmed this,". ...4 weeks ago -
Why Chinese netizens are upset
News Clips —
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Nov 5, 2009 MM LEES COMMENTS ON U.S. ROLE IN ASIA MINISTER Mentor Lee Kuan Yews recent comments in the United States have caused unhappiness among Chinas netizens. He had urged the US to remain engaged in Asia so as to balance Chinas military and economic clout. He also said Chinas blue-water fleet with aircraft ...4 weeks ago -
Lee Kuan Yew trails Lead.com, Lenovo in Googleverse
Looking for Words —
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Who says Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew dominates Singapore? Type the letters “l” and “e” in the Google search engine in Singapore, and see what you get. Lee Kuan Yew in Google Singapore The first word that pops up in the dropdown box is the domain name of an e-learning solutions provider. Next comes ...4 weeks ago -
Lee Kuan Yew trails Lead.com, Lenovo in Googleverse
Blowin' In The Wind —
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Who says Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew dominates Singapore? Type the letters "l" and "e" in the Google search engine in Singapore, and see what you get. The first word that pops up in the dropdown box is the domain name of an e-learning solutions provider. Next comes Lenovo the computer company. ...4 weeks ago -
Lee Kuan Yew and Obama, Lee Kuan Yew and Nixon
Looking for Words —
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President Barack Obama described Singapore’s Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew as “one of the legendary figures of Asia in the 20th and 21st centuries”. MM Lee was praised even more effusively by the late Richard Nixon — with whom and whose successor Gerald Ford — he enjoyed a warm relationship. In his ...4 weeks ago -
Singapore neither a nation nor a city – Ministers
The Online Citizen —
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Here is a report by Channelnewsasia in July 2009 on MM Lee saying that Singapore is not yet a nation: Despite achieving harmony amongst all races in Singapore, Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew said on Saturday that the country is still a work-in-progress when it comes to nationhood. “Are we a nation yet? I will not ...4 weeks ago
