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		<title>Thinking Aloud: The Rule of Law in Singapore</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:33:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Asst. Prof. Eugene Tan of the School of Law at SMU writes the occasional, insightful piece in the local newspapers. Last Saturday, his TODAY article entitled &#8220;Debating rule of law in Singapore&#8221; (14 Nov) reflected on last month&#8217;s New York State Bar Association meeting in Singapore. Here are some extracts:
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		<title>Racism in MediaCorp Channel 8 Serial, &#8220;Daddy At Home&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:24:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems that racist jokes are not limited to casual coffee-shop talk and semi-inebriated pub-jabberings. They are now broadcast on prime-time national TV, as evidenced by an ST Forum letter by one Ms. Chow Pei Sze:
&#8220;How did ethnic stereotype go unflagged?&#8221;
The Straits Times Forum
14 November 2009
I was appalled when last Friday’s prime-time drama series of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=etrepoursoi.wordpress.com&blog=1147808&post=104&subd=etrepoursoi&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Response to ST Forum Letter, &#8220;Decriminalise consensual underage sex&#8221;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:16:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a slightly revised and footnoted version of a letter I sent to the Straits Times Forum last Saturday. It&#8217;s a reply to this letter, published last Friday.
(Incidentally, a letter today by Mr. Alvin Chen, which was selected for publication over mine, mirrors several points I made.)
I refer to the letter, “Decriminalise consensual underage [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=etrepoursoi.wordpress.com&blog=1147808&post=100&subd=etrepoursoi&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hate Speech in Singapore</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:47:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Racial and Religious Hate Speech in Singapore: Reclaiming the Victim&#8217;s Perspective&#8221;
(draft of forthcoming article in the Singapore Law Review, 2009)
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		<title>Mas Selamat Escape: The Disciplinary Fallout</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 19:35:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Edited: 27 May 2008 at 1200hrs 
News has broken regarding the disciplinary action taken in light of the Mas Selamat escape. Appended at the bottom of this post is a &#8216;quick-reference&#8217; table summarizing (from DPM Wong Kan Seng&#8217;s speech in Parliament on Monday) the disciplinary actions taken against the various officers and guards. Certain cells [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=etrepoursoi.wordpress.com&blog=1147808&post=69&subd=etrepoursoi&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Racist Speech &#8212; Whose Fault is It, Anyway?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 18:05:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A dude going by the rather charming moniker, Sexy Fragrance Prince, has been charged under s. 298 of the Penal Code. Since I&#8217;m presently researching on the topic of hate speech legislation, I thought I should weigh in a little on this debate.
A few good blog posts on this issue:

Ian on the Red Dot, &#8220;Bloggers [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=etrepoursoi.wordpress.com&blog=1147808&post=66&subd=etrepoursoi&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Pedra Branca Denouement: Between a Rock and a Hard Place?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 14:40:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To make up for a long absence, I will post in quick succession on a number of issues: Pedra Branca, racist bloggers, the Yaw Shin Leong mini-scandal, and (just in) the disciplinary fallout from Mas Selamat&#8217;s escape. Let me start with a short comment on Pedra Branca.

The Straits Times
May 26, 2008
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		<title>JI Detainee&#8217;s Escape: Another Argument Against the ISA?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:35:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So the controversy surrounding the Budget 2008 Debate (which I haven&#8217;t the time to follow) has been drowned out by this news of the Manhunt. A rifle-totting, able-bodied, combat-trained CPL Dave Teo is apparently small-fry in comparison with the unarmed, partly-crippled former chief of the Jemaah Islamiah.
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		<title>A Non-Citizen&#8217;s Constitutional (Non-)Right to Freedom of Speech in Singapore</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:37:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let’s talk about the rights to freedom of speech, expression and assembly in Singapore, with regard to non-citizens.
The inspiration behind this is a series of recent incidents involving foreigners attempting to weigh in on local civic discourse, or to express themselves artistically… and curtly rebuffed by the authorities. These include:
 Douglas Sanders
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		<title>The Sounding of a TOCsin: Blogosphere in a Bog</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:11:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been MIA for sometime, clearly&#8230; was planning originally to make a comeback with an essay of sorts on the constitutional rights (if any) of non-citizens in Singapore. Am still working on that. But this rather bemusing fracas has impelled me to write, a little sooner than planned:

 soc.culture.singapore: Beware TOC (The Online Cons) 
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