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Illegal baby part 1: The strange case of the sluggish passport

Posted Monday, June 30, 2008 12:09 AM by will
Anyone within earshot will know that Imagethief welcomed his son, Zachary, into the world last March 9th. The nearly four months since have been one long sleepless adventure. Despite my fatigue induced delirium, however, the experience has been a happy Read More...
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Lee Kuan Yew's foreign media management advice for China

Posted Tuesday, May 13, 2008 6:02 AM by will
In a fairly wide ranging interview conducted with a Bloomberg reporter and published the on Journalism.sg , Singapore's Minister Mentor, Lee Kuan Yew, has offered his advice for the Chinese government on dealing with foreign media. Much of it is pretty Read More...
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2007 best-of-Imagethief and statistics

Posted Tuesday, February 05, 2008 11:01 PM by will
There is no such thing as a dull year in China. 2008 is well underway and already looks like another whopper. We're only a month in and we've already had the biggest storms in half a century. The Olympics, the mother of all China events, is now a scant seven months off. God only knows what will happen in between. Read More...
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Ching Cheong free

Posted Tuesday, February 05, 2008 4:20 AM by will
The wires report that he has been freed , in time for Chinese New Year. Read More...
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Notorious MDA: The Singapore government raps

Posted Sunday, November 25, 2007 3:35 AM by will
From time to time someone will ask me why I left Singapore for China. This is a fair question. I lived there for nearly a decade, Mrs. Imagethief is Singaporean, and I have great affection for the place. Usually I give some longish explanation about various Read More...
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China launches successful anti-piracy program against movie pirate

Posted Sunday, June 17, 2007 9:10 PM by will
Imagethief and Mrs. Imagethief took themselves round to the splendid, new Wanda cinema in Beijing this weekend to catch the latest installment of Disney's "Pirates of the Caribbean" series. Imagethief was, in particular, looking forward to the "Singapore" Read More...
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Asian media vows to make western media cry

Posted Monday, April 23, 2007 7:31 AM by will
Imagethief was tickled to read today in Xinhua an article from the Boao Forum for Asia, an annual Chinese talking shop, on how Asian media will rise up to challenge western media juggernauts. It seems that Asians take umbrage that they are 96.2% of the Read More...
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Singaporean ministerial pay raises are all about you!

Posted Thursday, April 12, 2007 10:23 PM by will
As someone deeply invested in Singapore's future, Imagethief has been saddened by outbursts of anger and resentment generated by the hefty pay raises recently awarded to Singaporean ministers by Singaporean ministers. Sure, at first glance it might appear Read More...
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China stockmarkets: Casino Spoyale

Posted Tuesday, February 27, 2007 10:19 PM by will
OK, anybody who didn't see this coming , go bang your head against the wall until your brain falls out: BEIJING, Feb. 27 (Xinhua) -- Chinese shares slumped sharply on profit-taking on Tuesday, with the major Shanghai index down 8.84 percent, the biggest Read More...
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Tuesday PR blog: Reputation warfare against Singapore

Posted Tuesday, February 27, 2007 5:16 AM by will
Having just returned from a week's vacation in Singapore, Imagethief can report that the city-state's image in much of Southeast Asia is, not to put too fine a point on it, crappy. Singapore has a reputation for arrogance, part of which is justified and Read More...
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A banana republic move

Posted Friday, September 29, 2006 12:06 AM by will
To Singapore's lasting shame: Far Eastern Economic Review banned - in Singapore Singapore (dpa) - Singapore revoked on Thursday approval for the Far Eastern Economic Review (FEER) to be sold or distributed in the city-state. "It is a privilege and not Read More...
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A few good reads

Posted Thursday, September 28, 2006 6:45 AM by will
Time was short today, so you've been spared the mooncake rant, the cultural relativism rant and a few other choice in-development rants. But I did notice a few articles that I though I'd pass along to readers so you can keep outta trouble. Just because Read More...
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Public nuisance 1: Your placards are harassing me

Posted Thursday, August 31, 2006 9:42 PM by will
An interesting article on Asia Times Online from Singaporean commentator (dare I say dissident?) Alex Au on the state of civil liberties there. Au has his eye firmly on the upcoming World Bank and IMF meetings, and reviews some recent attempts to demonstrate Read More...
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The "S" is for shame

Posted Monday, August 07, 2006 1:05 AM by will
In another example of unworthy, regressive pique , Singapore has turned the screws on a few high-profile foreign news publications just enough to let them know that they should not, by any means, assume that Singapore will tolerate open discourse when Read More...
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Put on a happy face

Posted Thursday, July 13, 2006 12:47 AM by will
Imagethief was not entirely surprised to read the following this morning in the Straits Times online: Singaporeans the least happy people in Asia LONDON - OF ALL the countries in the Asean region, Vietnam has the most to smile about and Singapore the Read More...
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