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Dr Yaacob (29 May) - ...Yaacob Ibrahim, the minister for Communications and Information, which oversees the MDA, told local reporters that the government plans to expand the new licensing regime to include overseas-based sites that report regularly on Singapore and that it could pass the necessary laws to do so by next year. Local... 

(2 June)   The unemployment rate in the 17 EU countries that use the euro is expected to reach 20 million by the end of the year, according to forecasts from the Eurostat statistics office, offering the currency bloc little hope of a quick exit from recession. Unemployment across the 17 EU countries that use the euro hit another... 

(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...