Yahoo! News Malaysia, 9 Oct 2014PETALING JAYA, Oct 9 — Human rights group Pusat Komunikasi Masyarakat (Komas) accused Putrajaya today of trampling on civil rights by allegedly pressuring it into cancelling its screening of the banned Singaporean documentary on political exiles.Its executive director Anna Har said Komas was merely trying to create avenues for betterContinue reading “Malaysia also banned screening of Tan Pin Pin’s exile film after pressure from it’s ally”
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Tan Pin Pin’s ‘To Singapore, With Love’ film was banned because it contains lies, says Yaacob Ibrahim
XINMSN News, 7 Oct 2014Tan Pin Pin’s To Singapore, With Love is not a historical documentary presenting a factual account, Minister for Communications and Information Yaacob Ibrahim told Parliament on Tuesday (Oct 7). The film’s “one-sided portrayals” are designed to “evoke feelings of sympathy and support for individuals” who in reality chose to leave SingaporeContinue reading “Tan Pin Pin’s ‘To Singapore, With Love’ film was banned because it contains lies, says Yaacob Ibrahim”
OPINION: For Yale in Singapore, It’s Deja-vu All Over Again – Jim Sleeper
The Huffington Post, 26 Sep 2014Singapore wants western tourists, investors, and contractors to enjoy superb seaside dinners and clean, efficient public services and private markets. It doesn’t want them to notice, behind the façade, a tight-fisted governance that generates a subtle but pandemic self-censorship among its citizens that’s even tighter than the self-censorship that someContinue reading “OPINION: For Yale in Singapore, It’s Deja-vu All Over Again – Jim Sleeper”
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