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S’pore Using Silicon Valley Internet Surveillance Gear To Monitor Users?

Citizen Lab have been conducting network scans of public servers in countries on almost every continent. Today, they released their findings—which appear to show that networking technology made byBlue Coat, a Silicon Valley-based company, is being used in a host of countries with questionable human rights records. The...

SPH STOMP fooled by fake story

(In "The FlipSide", local blogger Belmont Lay lets loose on local politics, culture and society. To be taken with a pinch of salt and parental permission is advised. In this post, he talks about the dangers of passing off fake news as real.) In the strangest twist to this by-election season yet, Singapore Press Holdings-owned...

Run up to tense election puts Malaysia, investors on edge

Jan 18 - Malaysian economist Azrul Azwar gave a presentation in Singapore last week that cost him his job. His analysis, outlining risks for investors from a narrow election victory for Malaysia's opposition, was reported by a Malaysian online news site as a prediction the long-ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition government...