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April 10, 2007
The MPAA's Singapore lie
August 16, 2005
"Ass Tee" crackdown!
Singapore Critic said ...
I was just informed by a close friend of mine who works at an IT training firm as a IT/web kinda personnel, that their company has been sued by a Major English local newspaper with a name that sounds vaguely like "Ass Tee".
May 09, 2005
Financial Times reports on AcidFlask matter
Financial Times reported on AcidFlask. I know everyone is sick of this news but wah, on International media leh! Now the world is watching...
A threatened libel suit against a blogger by a Singapore government agency has raised concerns among international press freedom groups that the city-state might be cracking down against dissent on the internet.
May 07, 2005
Plea addressed to my fellow bloggers
From a Singapore Angle makes a plea addressed to fellow bloggers
I speak not as a spokesperson for you, nor do I pretend to be one. The below are merely my own thoughts--a plea, if you will--in the hope that you will find them reasonable and acceptable. With the publication of AcidFlask's statement, I believe that it is now all the more important to keep in mind certain things...
May 05, 2005
A*Star confirms warning to student over defamatory blog
Channelnewsasia.com reports
A*Star (Agency for Science, Technology and Research) confirmed it had warned a Singapore student of legal consequences over a public blog containing defamatory statements...... So it warned the blogger of legal consequences unless the objectionable statements were removed and an acceptable apology published.
A*Star also said it welcomed a diversity of views in all media, but the statements made in the blog "went way beyond fair comment.
April 30, 2005
Singapore student forced to shut down blog after libel threat
BlogHerald reports:
A Singapore student has been forced to shut down his blog on April 26 for fear of a libel action by the head of a government body.The threat of prosecution came from Philip Yeo, chairman of the government’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research, who claimed the agency was libelled in a blog by Jiahao Chen, a Singapore student finishing his studies in the United States. Writing under the pseudonym of Acid Flask, he criticised Yeo and the Agency’s scholarship system. Yeo sent several e-mails demanding that he delete all blogs mentioning him or the agency and threatening legal action if he did not.
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