MANILA: While ASEAN and China adopting a code of conduct framework on the South China Sea is “good news”, Singapore Foreign Affairs Minister Vivian Balakrishnan says he does not want to “trivialise how difficult negotiations will be going forward.” ( read original story ...)
Li Shengwu responds to AGC: Earlier post not in contempt of court
He added that he has amended the post to remove any misunderstanding, but will not delete it. On July 15, he wrote that the “Singapore government is very litigious and has a pliant court system”, pointing out that foreign media had been cowed into self ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore Orders Expulsion of American Academic
BANGKOK — Singapore has ordered the expulsion of a noted American academic for what it said was his covert effort to influence Singapore’s foreign policy on behalf of an unnamed foreign government. The academic, Huang Jing, was accused of passing ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore, six ways
Off the eastern coast of Singapore lies the island of Ubin, a haven for nature lovers. The island attracts local wildlife enthusiasts as it is home to several rare species such as the mangrove blue flycatcher and the elusive mouse deer. Chek Jawa, the ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore PM’s nephew defiant as government accuses him of contempt of court
Development threatens to reignite family feud over the estate of the Lion City’s late founding father Lee Kuan Yew The nephew of Singapore's prime minister, who faces contempt of court proceedings for comments he made suggesting the city-state's courts ... ( read original story ...)
Targeting Singapore’s property market, Chinese developers leave a trail of unease
For more than a decade, a plot of land roughly the size of three football fields sat empty at the heart of Singapore’s oldest public housing estates. As property developers snatched up parcel after parcel in the Queenstown estate, named after Queen ... ( read original story ...)
Lee Kuan Yew’s grandson faces threat of legal action
Singapore's government has announced it is taking legal action against the grandson of founding leader Lee Kuan Yew over a Facebook post linked to an ongoing family feud. In a statement late on Friday, the Attorney General's Chambers (AGC) said it was ... ( read original story ...)