As the saying goes, if one has nothing to hide – one would not be afraid even when someone comes knocking on your door at midnight. Guess that is not the case for Singapore??

The only few ways they know how to deal with unfavourable press:
1) Sue them
2) Ban them

To papies: so why are you afraid of letting others talk about you? And what sort of transparency have you been spouting? You are nothing but a bunch of hypocrites!

“I’ve just found out that the Singapore government has refused to renew my work visa.

The Ministry of Manpower has refused to give me any reason for this decision.

I’d like to thank all my readers and assure you that I will be back blogging with a vengeance once my involuntary departure is complete.

I’ll also have more to say on my predicament at a later date.

At least I’ve now got some time to re-read the novels of Franz Kafka and George Orwell.”

Moreover, it is a well known fact that some ‘journalists’ and ‘reporters’ are actually spies in disguise (undercovers so to speak). The Authorities may have been alerted of such spying activities but cannot openly reveal them, either to protect the source or have not enough evidence to prove.) But caution is always prudence.

If journalists’ and reporters’ activities are perceived as snooping around in a suspicious way, then they have only themselves to blame.

Elementary, my friend Sherlock Holmes!

I had no agenda other than to cover stories of interest to Singaporeans and other people around the world.

Some of my work about Singapore may have been perceived as critical but much of it was positive in tone.

In any case, to report on rising crime, healthcare issues and business links with Burma (as I did) is not to criticise but to show Singapore in light of the genuine challenges that it faces.

It seems that what really worries your government is not press criticism per se but the threat of the truth being unveiled.

I mean sink us poor kind. Plenty.

Yes. They won’t report any unfavourable things on their soil but always something unfavourable on others’ soil not for their audience but YOURS. To creat mayhem and unrest. That’s their ultimate.

Gone are the days of gunboast diplomacy.

Now using the mass media. Even the Islamic world doesn’t give 2 hoots to them. Even those reports on Iran. Just watch FOX or even the BBC on tv and you (if you’re smart) will eventually see skewed and biased reporting.

Countries like China & the Islamic world have grown wiser. They have theirs to counter like Alzera.

Pleople have grown wiser in this economicallly competitive world where every nation is a rival to another (if you didn’t know). There are no FRIENDS but SELF-INTERESTS. Oh . . they must be very kind to want to seee us live in abundance & prosperity whilst they linger in deep shit (recession). The West is still stuck there today.

See how they try to stir up another Tiaanmmen before the Olympics with their cut and paste job. It failed badly. The Chinese netizens today went after them like hell. China has indeed matured. They know the foreigners who have no stakes have diabolical motives. There will always be running dogs & lackeys (if you had watch Bruce LI’s movies where he punched them flat as traitors) in this world. Money does drive devil carts.

Yes . . we’ll destablise. One competitor less. Simple, Dr Watson!!

A step backward for press freedom.

Got Transparency or not?
Ranked very high hor?

This is Singapore my friend, not happy… but what you want to do or can do?

1) tiredsingaporean on November 20th, 2009 9.35 am , it is not that singaporeans have a weak heart when it comes to listening to ugly news. We singaporeans are a tough bunch. We been living the bad news for may decades. It is not us that the press is worried about.
It is the old man with the pace maker they are more worried for. Cos if the old man’s pace maker were to stop working due to reading bad news from the press (print or otherwise), the people in-charge of the press dare not bear the responsibility!