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To Singapore's lasting shame:Far Eastern Economic Review banned - in SingaporeSingapore (dpa) - Singapore revoked on Thursday approval for the Far Eastern Economic Review (FEER) to be sold or distributed in the city-state. ''It is a privilege and not a right for foreign newspapers to circulate in Singapore,'' said a statement from the Ministry for ...

Time was short today, so you've been spared the mooncake rant, the cultural relativism rant and a few other choice in-development rants. But I did notice a few articles that I though I'd pass along to readers so you can keep outta trouble.Just because you're illegal doesn't mean you shouldn't look goodFunny post from Sam Flemming, who tracks an ...

In another example of unworthy, regressive pique, Singapore has turned the screws on a few high-profile foreign news publications just enough to let them know that they should not, by any means, assume that Singapore will tolerate open discourse when it comes to political matters:The government announced that Newsweek, Time, the Financial Times, ...

That was the year that was. And I suppose that this is the year that will be. Until we reach 2007, in which case it will become the year that has been. Speaking of has-been (and how's that for circular), I wanted to take advantage of the new-year to link back to a few favorite posts and to recap the statistics for the site. In eighteen ...

The Australians were doomed from the start, literally and metaphorically. They were doomed because they misapprehended the nature of capital punishment for drug offenses in Singapore. They thought of it as retribution, or punishment. This is wrong. Drug-offense executions in Singapore are, first and foremost, public communication. That ...

Imagethief is always scandalized when he sees international press coverage of Singapore that mocks country for conservative stuffyness. This is partially because deep down, Imagethief believes that, based on his long experience with the city state, he should have a monopoly on such mockery. It always rubs him the wrong way --metaphorically ...

In a very interesting roundup of articles on press freedom, Simon, of Simon World, posted a segment of a South China Morning Post article (subscription) in which former Singaporean PM Goh Chock Tong makes a vigorous and unapologetic defense of the country's dismal showing in Reporters Sans Frontieres' annual roundup of press ...

The unrepentant lefty in me glowed with shadenfreude at the cover of this week's edition of The Economist. My cheap thrills aside, it made me think that I've always enjoyed editorial cartoons; especially political cartoons. When I was at university in Santa Cruz, lo, these many decades ago, I used to pick up the Santa Cruz Comic News every ...

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