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It may be one small step for our neighbour, but it's a giant leap for human rights advocates. The new Security Offenses Bill presented to the lower house of Malaysia's Parliament on Tuesday will limit detention without charge to 28 days, not indefinitely, as was the case under the repressive ISA law. The British introduced... 

Lee Yi Shyan Speaking to the media on the sidelines of a community event on Thu (12 Apr), the Minister of State for Trade and Industry Lee Yi Shyan said Singapore must be careful about raising wages without a corresponding increase in productivity. Mr Lee was responding to economics professor Lim Chong Yah's recent proposal,... 

Were the Sinkies angry? Were their cries and pain heard and felt? The anger of a people feeling betrayed is beyond words. When foreigners came in drove ‘to help them’ and be treated like citizens with almost the same privileges, and more, yes more, whether the help was genuine or fake, it does not matter anymore. The...