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Media Release Singapore Democrats Friday 9 November 2012 James Minchin refused entry to Singapore The Reverend James Minchin, an author and Anglican priest, has been barred from entering Singapore. He was turned back at Changi Airport when he arrived on a visit from Melbourne. No reason was given. He was held at the airport... 

(Nov 10) - "You must confess to something so that Lee Kuan Yew can tell the public why you were detained so long," the late Singaporean activist Lim Hock Siew quoted a police interrogator as telling him during his two decades in prison. Thirty years later, similar attempts to coax confessions to non-existent crimes are familiar... 

PHOTO- NYT New York Times- November 6, 2012 SHIFANG, China — Local leaders were all smiles this summer at a groundbreaking ceremony for a vast copper smelting project that seemed like the answer to the chronic unemployment that has plagued this city in northern Sichuan ever since a devastating earthquake in 2008. But within...