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Fake Twitter accounts have sprung up in Singapore to satirise famous people or organisations. SINGAPORE: Fake-PMLee, fakestomp, fakeMOE, therealfakeNTU – and the list goes on. These are the names of fake Twitter accounts which have sprung up to lampoon everything from SingTel to Singapore Press Holdings’ citizen journalism... 

THE People’s Action Party (PAP) is mounting a quiet counter-insurgency against its online critics. It has members going into Internet forums and blogs to rebut anti-establishment views and putting up postings anonymously. Sources told The Straits Times the initiative is driven by two sub-committees of the PAP’s ‘new media’... 

Much like his counter-parts in glitzy Hollywood, Singapore celebrity K. Shenanigan receives million dollar pay checks for doing nothing more than appearing in public and speaking from well-crafted scripts. His most recent engagement in New York was no different from the usual public appearances he has done in Singapore. Speaking...