
Bidding farewell to Malaysia
Things can get busy on weekday mornings at the guardhouse outside the regal building of the Malaysian High Commission in Singapore at Jervois Road, as a string of Malaysians come to renew their passports, announce their permanent resident (PR) status and renounce their Malaysian citizenship. Between 30 and 50 applications to...

China – A country which locks up its lawyers
Last year saw reforms designed to make courts less corrupt and less embedded in local politics. Dozens of Chinese lawyers have been detained or interrogated over recent days in what seems to be a co-ordinated roundup. The crackdown has targeted those who take on cases involving free speech, human rights and abuses of power,...

The shame of how Singapore treated Amos Yee
JULY 12 — The clip making its rounds online is heart-breaking. Sixteen-year-old Amos Yee is exiting court, clutching a plastic bag, his mother by his elbow, his father clearing the way cluttered by pushy cameramen and this boy — he is shaking. He is free — the judge having sentenced him to four weeks in jail for “obscenity”...
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