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Singapore’s press overhaul will stay true to Lee Kuan Yew’s 50-year-old blueprint The SPH News Centre in Singapore. Photo: Handout
It is a fitting coincidence that the biggest shake-up of Singapore s news media industry in decades has been announced in the 50th anniversary month of the country s biggest ever crackdown on press freedom.
Thursday s news that Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) would hive off The Straits Times and other media outlets into a new not-for-profit company appears on the surface a radical, forward-thinking response to global journalism s chronic financial crisis. Look back at history, though, and it becomes clear this is also a rearguard action to preserve the ruling party s dominance over mainstream media.
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Fugitive former lawmaker Ted Hui’s legal bid against withdrawal of protest cases quashed as he ‘despises’ court, judge says Former opposition lawmaker Ted Hui. Photo: EPA-EFE
A Hong Kong judge has barred fugitive former lawmaker Ted Hui Chi-fung from challenging the justice s minister withdrawal of two private prosecution bids stemming from the anti-government protests of 2019, on grounds that he despises the court.
Mr Justice Alex Lee Wan-tang of the High Court refused to grant Hui s application for a judicial review on Friday, ordering him to foot the secretary for justice s legal costs on an indemnity basis, after taking into account his conduct in misleading the court when he fled the city.
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Crazy rich Asian weddings of China: from Angelababy and Huang Xiaoming to Yang Mi and Hawick Lau, 4 of the most expensive Chinese celebrity weddings From left, the weddings of Angelababy and Huang Xiaoming, Yang Mi and Liu Kaiwei, and Wu Qilong and Liu Shishi were three of the most lavish of recent years. Photo: @thebridestory, @hawicklauandyangmi, @asiaweddingnetwork/Instagram
In Chinese tradition, weddings are not just about the legal union of two lovers or even the celebration of their love with families and friends, but a chance to show off social status and wealth. And for celebrity couples - like Angelababy and Huang Xiaoming, Yang Mi and Lau Hoi-wai, Liu Shishi and Nicky Wu Qilong, and Hu Jing who married Malaysian billionaire Frank Choo - a wedding can take extravagance to the next level. In the following cases, these celebrity nuptials often featured A-list
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Reused nose swabs: Indonesian firm faces lawsuit over Covid-19 test ‘fraud’ Aisyah Llewellyn in Medan, Indonesia llewellynaisyah@gmail.com Human rights lawyers in Medan, Kamal Pane (left) and Ranto Sibarani say they will sue Kimia Farma for compensation. Photo: Aisyah Llewellyn
A pair of Indonesian lawyers are planning to sue a state-owned pharmaceutical firm after it was discovered to have allegedly reused nasal swabs for coronavirus tests for thousands of people.
Last week, police arrested five workers at Kimia Farma, including its Medan business manager, who were accused of washing and repacking cotton swabs at the company s main office in the city, and then sending them to Kualanamu International Airport where they were used on unsuspecting travellers.