Magazine Banned for Noncompliance
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Singapore announced that it had banned the Far Eastern Economic Review magazine after it failed to comply with new rules.
“It is a privilege and not a right for foreign newspapers to circulate in Singapore,” the Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts said.
The government said the publication failed to appoint a legal representative and pay a $126,000 security bond.
In a separate case, the Review, published by Dow Jones & Co., is being sued by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and his father, Singapore’s founding prime minister, Lee Kuan Yew, over a July article about opposition politician Chee Soon Juan.
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