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.
The crunch on police brutality, gagged press, minimum wage and the parting of two airlines.
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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