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Dear reader, Hello from Chiang Mai! Abhishek, Charmaine and I are here for the annual Splice Beta media festival. The organisers invited Jom to speak about our ongoing efforts to build a sustainable independent media firm. Still some way to go, but we’re grateful for the opportunity. Thank you...
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Dear reader, Another week, another Lee/Li. This time, there’s the news that Li Hongyi, son of Lee Hsien Loong and Ho Ching, has allegedly resigned as the director of Singpass. His apparently leaked resignation message is quite telling. We may write about it in more detail in a...
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