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(8 Jul) This morning Singapore became the latest in a line of countries to crack down on copyright infringement via web blocking. Fresh amendments to existing law will allow content owners to obtain injunctions from the High Court to block sites said to be engaged in widespread copyright infringement. Top of the list: The Pirate... 

Singapore needs to turn to intrinsic incentives to stimulate innovation and raise productivity, and not just depend on a state-driven dollars-and-cents approach, DPM Tharman Shanmugaratnam said at the DBS Asian Insights Conference 2014 last Friday. “At the end of the day, we need a less dollars and cents approach to this,”... 

Bihar’s government has launched an investigation into the eastern state’s primary and secondary teachers to check the authenticity of their degrees. (AFP, 8 Jul) - India’s Bihar state has sacked 1,100 school teachers in the last five years for faking their own education qualifications, an official said on Tuesday. Bihar’s...