by CHERIAN GEORGE December 2nd, 2008 When I joined a group of bloggers lobbying for internet freedom, I abstained from one of my peers’ proposals: that the government end its symbolic ban on 100 pornographic…
November 27th, 2008 From WSJ Law Blog: In a case brought by the city-state’s attorney general, Singapore’s high court found the publisher of the Wall Street Journal’s asian edition and two of its editors in…
by CHERIAN GEORGE November 24th, 2008 December 10th marks the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. (See Singapore’s commemorative events organised by U60 here.) Below is the text of a keynote lecture…
by REUTERS October 5th, 2008 About 60 people gathered at a park in central Singapore on Sunday to protest against a university’s decision to censor news stories in the school media related to a prominent…
by LEONG WEE KEAT September 24th, 2008 MINISTER Mentor Lee Kuan Yew and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong have won a defamation suit against the Far Eastern Economic Review (Feer) and the publication’s editor Hugo…
September 24th, 2008 A group of bloggers that includes civil servants has argued that government employees should be given more freedom to voice their personal views on public policies. “These invaluable personal perspectives would sometimes…
by THE STRAITS TIMES August 22nd, 2008 ONLINE political discourse will benefit from a significant if measured relaxation of rules governing such content, as flagged by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. The move is as…
September 16th, 2008 Former Senior ST correspondent in Kuala Lumpur Ismail Kassim has written a memoir that he promises will become more controversial than Mahathir’s Malay Dilemma. In A Reporter’s Memoir: No Hard Feelings, the…
by JAMES GOMEZ September 13th, 2008 A summary of “Democracy and Elections: The Impact of Online Politics in Singapore”, James Gomez’s PhD thesis (Monash University, Melbourne, 2008). Aim of study The main goal of this…
by ARUN MAHIZHNAN & TAN TARN HOW September 13th, 2008 THE report of the Advisory Council on the Impact of New Media on Society (Aims) has hit more targets than some thought possible, though not…