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The authorities continued to restrict freedoms of speech and assembly in 2009. In April, Singapore’s legislature passed a measure that would require police permission for public assemblies of all sizes, removing a previous threshold of five or more people. In October, the Far Eastern Economic Review lost an appeal in a defamation... 

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... 

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...