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by Yong Yin Min, Straits Times
If citizens who emigrate and take on citizenship elsewhere wish to give up their Singapore citizenship, Singapore should respect their decision without condition.
by Tim Begent, Straits Times
Citizenship is a privilege, not a sentence, and NS is a duty for those who want to retain it, not a debt that must be paid before one is released from it.
by Bloomberg
The Singapore dollar has ssen its biggest monthly drop in seven years, as concerns about a slowing economy spurred traders to bet that the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) will rein in currency gains.
by Judith Tan, Straits Times
Subsidised patients in B2- and C-class wards now pay between $1 and $5 more a day. This brings the daily charges in C-class wards to between $25 and $29, and those in B2, to between $50 and $61.
by Ng E-Jay, Sgpolitics.net
AIMS is being overly cautious and is still unable to divest itself of the climate of fear that the PAP has instilled in Singaporeans with regards to the internet and political films in particular.
by Ian Tan, Empty Vesel
Sports may or may not unite a country, but a public dressing down of high-achieving sportsmen and their managers rankles everyone who has a degree of EQ.
by Jeremy Au Yong, Straits Times
The current wide-ranging ban on party political films stifles expression. It also stands in the way of works that could contribute to well-informed, rational and insightful debate on issues. That is the iew of the Advisory Council on the Impact of New Media on Society (AIMS), which says the outright ban must go.
by Valarie Tan and Patwant Singh, Channel NewsAsia
In a special media conference on Friday evening, the Ministry for Community Development, Youtha nd Spots announced that team manager Antony Lee will continue for another three months, to finish up his Olympics reports. He will then move to the Singapore National Olympic Council in November.
President of the Singapore Table Tennis Association, Lee Bee Wah, apologised for causing grievances and stress.
by Jeremy Au Yong, Straits Times
While rle changes may eventually allow Singaporeans to put political films online, that should not translate into leeway for such films to be screened in public without a permit. Aims deputy chairman Tan Cheng Han on Friday exlained why a distinction should still be made between what is permissible online and offline.
by Lee Siew Hoon, Channel NewsAsia
The National Solidarity Party (NSP) said the government could do more to liberalise the political landscape by expanding the platform for greater public participation in politics and parliamentary elections.
by May Wong, Channel NewsAsia
The Advisory Council on the Impact of New Media on Society has suggested that the making and distribution of political films be allowed and also to lift the ban on 100 websites in Singapore.
by AFP
The ASEAN blog will try again to spark investor interest in a much-delayed railway link from Singapore to the Chinese city of Kunming, officials said Friday.
by Gerald Giam, The Online Citizen
Advisory Council on the Impact of New Media on Society (AIMS) sought to walk the middle ground by providing alternatives to an outright repeal of section 33 of the Films Act, which prohibits party policial films. These included narrowing the scope of the law to ban only films which make "scurrilous and false allegations that undermine respect for the government", appointing an "independent advisory panel" to decide on political films, or a classification system for political films.
AIMS also pushed for internet election advertising regulations to permit videos or recordings of election rallies and the use of blogs and social networking tools during the election period. However one of its recommendations to allow party political films, but restirct their release only during a "blackout period" during an election campaign. This is likely to invite the most debate.
See Also:
Engaging New Media, Challenging Old Assumptions, a consultation paper by the Advisory Council on the Impact of New Media on Society (AIMS). (Note: PDF document.)
by Chua Hian Hou, Straits Times
Give limited protection to those running blogs, forums and other publicly editable content sites from defamation lawsuits to help free and responsible speech flourish online. This is the same protection internet service prodiers already get.
Such protection, said the Advisory Council on the Impact of New Media on Society (Aims), will at one stroke solve two problems: unmeritorious lawsuits against content hosts who are not responsible for the defamation to begin with, and overzealous censorship by content hosts worried about such prosecution.
Can we also extend this to the 'real' world, so that printers will also not get sued?
by Andrew Loh, The Online Citizen
When the people of Jurong GRC, and the people of Bukit Batok in particular, feel they are not being adequately represented and wants a by-election, is it right for the government to dismiss their call?
by Heng-Cheong Leong, MyAppleMenu
As a software developer, I've learnt that whenever there is a bug, always assume it's my fault, and start debugging there. If one starts by assuming the fault lies in the operating system or the compiler, one will almost always lose a lot of time and effort chasing down the wrong path.
Similarly, in a debate, whenever you start by assuming that it is the other party that just "doesn't get it", then you're bascially starting to dig a hole to bury yourself. All your arguments, most likely, are simplying attacks on strawmen, and you are, most likely, totally missing out on the other points of views. In other words, your words will simply indicate that it is you, instead, that just doesn't get it.
We see this self-destructing behavior in a lot of pre-internet-crash internet companies, who blamed everyone but themselves of just "didn't get it."
Today, I see this self-destructing behavior in this article, accusing the Singapore government of just "doesn't get it." But read carefully, and you'll discover that it is the anonymous writer who simply didn't get it.
by Ang Yiying, Straits Times
Nature and animal welfare groups in Singapore have banded together againt to oppose the move by the integrated resort on Sentosa to bring in whale sharks for its oceanarium.
by Arul John, New Paper
The majority of parlimentarians voted one way, and heartlanders the other.
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