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Writtten by Our Correspondent In her first ever interview with the mainstream media, the wife of veteran opposition leader Mr Chiam See Tong, Ms Lina Loh revealed that Mr Chiam was forced out of the Singapore Democratic Party he founded in 1980. Ms Loh contacted Lianhe Zaobao herself after reading the Zaobao interview with... 

Dear Rachel,   I refer to your Straits Times article dated 11 Dec 2009 which detailed the work of Mr John Kampfner.  It began with a question posed by Mr Kampfner on why educated people are willing to hand over their freedoms in exchange for prosperity and security.  In the case of Singapore, the answer is invariably... 

Written by Our Correspondent According to report on Channel News Asia, “more than 20,000 job seekers turned up on the first day of the JobsDB career fair at Suntec Convention Centre on Friday.” CNA claims that “the job seekers include fresh graduates from the universities and polytechnics, as well as those... 

Just when we thought the scandals of Tiger Woods have stopped hogging our headlines, Singapore now has her very own Tiger Woods. So, who has opened the pandora’s box to tabloid journalism and the characters involved in this case? It is a household name that Singaporeans would be familiar with- Jack Neo. The recent... 

By Asrul Hadi Abdullah Sani from The Malaysian Insider KUALA LUMPUR, March 27 — Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad today argued that public debate on racial issues has hampered Malaysia’s economic growth and will destabilise the country The former prime minister also blamed his successor Tun Abdullah Badawi for the current... 

By Jumong The drama was filmed in South Korea and Manchuria and is filled with fantastic scenery, superb combat scenes and glamorous pops. The soundtrack is worth a collection too with soothing love ballads like Windflower, Dreams and Bijiran.   아이유 ─ Araro 아라로 (To the Ocean)   To reach the ocean, the will... 

Written by Our Correspondent Almost a year after the AWARE saga which rocked the entire nation, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong finally realized that his administration was “duped” by “astroturfers” into making hasty decisions about the sexual education programme conducted by AWARE. “Astroturfing”... 

作者：中央社  27/03/2010 针对纽约时报公司支付名誉赔偿金给新加坡内阁资政李光耀，总理李显龙父子等人，无国界记者组织（RSF）对其在网站上发表公开信给李显龙，谴责他们的行为迫害新闻自由。 纽约时报公司因旗下“国际前锋论坛报”一篇“都是一家人”的文章，把李光耀父子列入“亚洲政治皇朝”名单，被认为影射李显龙非靠自己实力坐上总理之位，被李光耀，李显龙父子及国务资政吴作栋控告诽谤，支付... 

译者：新加坡文献馆 李显龙总理 总理办公室 总统府 新加坡238823 巴黎2010年3月25日 尊敬的总理 又有一家外国的新闻机构被逼向你和你的父亲道歉以及赔偿一笔巨款，为的是发表了一篇你不喜欢的文章。这回是纽约时报公司 (New York Times Co) 成为双倍罚款的受害者，因为顺从的法庭一向来都在由你向外国传媒提出的司法诉讼上让你和你的家属获得有利判决。 在纽约时报公司之前，你成功的惩罚了远东经济论坛，亚洲金融网站，经济学人，国际先驱论坛报，亚洲华尔街日报；都由于报导了你国内的政治与经济状况。 由于受到诉讼的威胁纽约时报公司向你和你的父亲李光耀道歉，这是因为2月15日国际先驱论坛报，刊登了一篇由菲普力包林（弘宝灵）撰写的《全是一家人》。 除了道歉之外，这家美国传媒公司也必须支付114,000美元的赔偿。你的律师文达星说包林的文章违反了你们家庭与国际先驱论坛报之间的一份‘协议书’，这家公司在1994年也因为一篇文章《亚洲价值观的好处经不起考验》而遭判决赔偿一笔巨款。 如今已经停刊的远东经济论坛在上年头的11月，在拖延了长久的法律纠葛后，也支付你和你的父亲290,000美元的赔偿。虽然缺乏证据新加坡的法官在初审与上诉审讯时不考虑到新闻报道自由还是给予对你有利的判决。 无国界记者组织谴责你和你的父亲多年以来利用的司法骚扰，去阻止外国新闻媒体从近距离报道你如何治理你的国家。这将会对新加坡的新闻自由带来严重与长久的伤害。 你的政府持续不断的表示无法容忍外国记者是令人不安的表态。比如，上年头10月，本布兰德一名为经济学人和每日电讯报供稿的英国自由撰稿人，就遭拒绝入境签... 

By Jessica Vascellaro from Wall Street Journal, 25 March 2010 BEHIND Google’s dramatic decision to close its China-based search engine this week was co-founder Sergey Brin’s change of heart about the compromises required to do business in a land that was increasingly reminding him of his native Soviet Union. The...