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Former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad today called democracy a “failed” ideology and held up China’s model of authoritarianism as an alternative “worth studying”. He said China’s political model — which he termed the “Beijing Consensus” — showed that a nation could develop well even in the absence... 

Alan Shadrake with defence counsel M Ravi ‘Once A Jolly Hangman – Singapore Justice in the Dock’  is “a broadbased attack on the entire judiciary system that can never be justified,” said Deputy Public Prosecutor Hema Subramaniam on the first day of Alan Shadrake’s trial this morning. The British journalist was... 

SINGAPORE - The anonymous team behind socio-political website Temasek Review say that they are willing, in principle, to change the name of their website. It is not known where the team is based but they said they would agree to the change if Temasek Holdings contacts them to clarify if it is claiming exclusive rights to the...