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Midnight phone calls? Yesterday I heard from a friend that he had received a phone call – at midnight – from our Law Minister K Shanmugam. It was regarding an article written by Eric Ellis for The Global Mail, entitled ‘Out of the Haze, a Singapore Spring?’ The Minister said he was aware that the article was being re-posted... 

Thousands of Turks dug in today (June 8) for a weekend of anti-government demonstrations despite Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan’s demand for an immediate end to the worst political unrest of his decade in power. In central Istanbul’s Taksim Square, where riot police backed by helicopters and armoured vehicles clashed with... 

Singapore finally nannies the 'net There is probably more behind the Singapore government's Tuesday crackdown on the Internet than the circumspect slings and arrows from a handful of cautious amateur news sites that have been around for years. The Singapore Media Development Authority issued a statement describing the new regulations...