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Internet freedom is a human rights issue (5 Jun) - SINGAPOREANS live in one of the most wired countries in the world, and as such they are used to receiving gobbets of news on their smartphones and tablets as a daily if not hourly affair. So it was to the dismay of many that the Media Development Authority (MDA) put a draconian... 

The Media Development Authority (MDA) now requires annual licensing of news websites that fit certain criteria and a performance bond of $50,000 ("MDA rolls out licence scheme for news websites"; last Wednesday). We note that this approach to regulating information and discussion in cyberspace is similar to what has already... 

(30 May)   Singapore's plan to impose licensing fees on news websites will further stifle the press in the city-state's already claustrophobic media atmosphere, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. "These licensing fees shut another door to public discussion," said Bob Dietz, CPJ's Asia program coordinator. "The...