REFSA Rojak: Crisps of the Week (25-31 Jan)
On ballooning deficits, press freedom and the contentious Education Blueprint.
On ballooning deficits, press freedom and the contentious Education Blueprint.
A day after Alan Shadrake’s book “Once A Jolly Hangman” was launched in Singapore, he was arrested, detained and interrogated. The verdict of his trial is expected on 28 October 2010. If found guilty Alan faces up to 2 years imprisonment. He is 76 years-old and suffers from serious medical problems.
This article was to be published in Sin Chew Jit Poh on the 9th March 2010. Instead it fell victim to the oft-wielded Printing Presses and Publications Act 1984, which incidentally is the subject of this spiked article.
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