TR EMERITUS

When I signed the Arts Community Position Paper on Censorship and Regulation, one of the ArtsEngage folks emailed me asking if I could blog about it. I wanted to, but never quite got around to it. Until now. The catalyst was the ban on Martyn See's film on Dr Lim Hock Siew. I won't go into the substantive content of the film,... 

Sin Chew Daily reported about a nightclub singer in Singapore who used heroin as a weapon to threaten the "rich" and regular customers for money. The 20-year-old Chinese woman from Hangzhou, China, was said to be the most popular singer among the 20 employed at the nightclub. She had allegedly persuaded her "rich" customers... 

Indonesia's anti-trust agency (KPPU) is seeking ways to seize assets worth 120 billion rupiah ($13 million) from Singapore's Temasek Holdings over an outstanding fine, which the latter was slapped with in 2007 for breaching the country's anti-monopoly laws, a KPPU commissioner said on Tuesday. The KPPU ruled in 2007 that Temasek...