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Cup of tea in one hand, paperback in the other, Alan Shadrake sits down at a shady table in the hotel courtyard. To the foreign tourists walking by, he looks like one of them, another casual visitor flitting through this tropical city-state. Alan Shadrake But Mr. Sheldrake, a British journalist, isn’t free to leave town when... 

At first I thought I had misheard, or at the very least misunderstood. We had just trudged uphill in the oppressive Singapore heat for 15 minutes, the family laden with binders, boxes and stacks of papers. Everyone was covered with a sheen of sweat. And that was only just the tiniest fraction of what the Yong family had been... 

He had posted a number of comments on Facebook about the Youth Olympic Games (YOG). But Mr Abdul Malik Mohammed Ghazali, 27, may have gone too far with a recent posting on a Facebook group which says it is against the organizing committee of the YOG because of several issues. Unhappy with a series of incidents connected with...