by BHAVAN JAIPRAGAS December 18th, 2009 Tiger Wood’s self described “transgressions” have dominated the global news hole since the golfer’s Thanksgiving Day car crash came after tabloid magazine National Enquirer’s scathing report on his adulterous…
by BHAVAN JAIPRAGAS December 10th, 2009 Within Singapore’s increasingly influential new media sphere, Temasek Review (TR) has emerged as one of the more controversial players. With an ambitious mission statement and vision, TR was quickly…
December 1st, 2009 Press coverage of the AWARE saga – probably the biggest media controversy of 2009 – is the subject of a research paper by Tan Tarn How of the Institute of Policy Studies….
by CHERIAN GEORGE December 1st, 2009 The Government’s proposal to introduce a moratorium on campaigning on the eve of Polling Day is sensible, but it will go down badly if it over-regulates what the Prime…
by CHERIAN GEORGE November 26th, 2009 Above: Malaysiakini editor Steven Gan with covers of censored Malaysian publications. SINGAPOREANS may fancy ourselves the most envied nation in the region, but there are some things across the…
November 24th, 2009 BEN BLAND on his year-long sojourn in Singapore: While the governments of Burma, China and Iran tend to arrest troublesome foreign reporters or expel them without delay, Singapore’s more media-savvy government prefers…
by CHANNEL NEWS ASIA November 2nd, 2009 For the first time, the People’s Action Party (PAP) has employed the use of new media on a large scale. This includes the party’s first political videos since…
by K. SHANMUGAM October 28th, 2009 Extract from the speech by Minister for Law K Shanmugam at the Opening Cocktail Reception of the Seasonal Meeting of NYSBA International Section, 26 October 2009. If you look…
by CHERIAN GEORGE October 28th, 2009 The Press Freedom Index of Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is once again making the news in Singapore, with law minister K Shanmugam dismissing the Republic’s low ranking as “quite…
October 28th, 2009 Extract from Chief Justice Chan Sek Keong’s Keynote Address at the New York State Bar Association Seasonal Meeting, 27 October 2009 … I would like to say something about the law of…