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Should Ministers be commenting on a Courts decision?

I take very strong issue with what Minister for Social and Family Development Desmond Lee commented recently after the landmark High Court ruling that gay couples seeking adoption may find it harder to convince the courts going forward. Desmond Lee maybe too young to know but Mr Low Wee Ping, a retired district judge who also...

An unprecedented attack on 6 independent websites and at least 7 journalists

Over the last few months, the Singapore government has launched an unprecedented attack on 6 independent websites and at least 7 journalists and bloggers. (A) INDEPENDENT WEBSITES 1) The Online Citizen SG - editor charged by Singapore government for criminal defamation 2) The Independent Singapore - sued by state-controlled...

PAPpy rules OK in Illinois, the US of A

Michael Madigan Not in Singapore but in the Land of the Free, where the buffalo roam and where Amos Yee is learning that freedom of expression has a price: conform or starve No state Speaker in America has served longer than Michael Madigan in Illinois. Mr Madigan has held the office since 1983 (a two-year hiccup in the nineties...