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| + | ====== 1980 ======= | ||
| + | ===== January: Government vs Shin Min Daily & Min Pao ===== | ||
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| + | ==== Protagonists ==== | ||
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| + | * Chinese tabloids //Shin Min Daily News// & //Min Pao Daily// | ||
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| + | ==== Actions Taken ==== | ||
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| + | * The publishing permits of //Shin Min// and //Min Pao// were suspended for eight days on charges for indulging in yellow journalism.((Asiaweek, 1980, as cited in Lent, J. A. (1981). The Perpetual See-Saw: Press Freedom in the ASEAN Countries. //Human Rights Quarterly, 3//(1), 62-77.))((Rabushka, A. (1986). //Economic, Civil and Political Freedoms: The cases of Singapore and Hong Kong.// Paper presented at the International Symposium on Economic, Political, and Civil Freedom. Retrieved April 25, 2008, from http://www.fraserinstitute.org/Commerce.Web/product_files/Rabushkach4.pdf)) | ||
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| + | ==== Outcome ==== | ||
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| + | * The permits were renewed for three months, instead of the normal one year, after the paper pledged to stop playing up "crime, sex and violence" (p. 202).((Seow, F. (1998). //The Media Enthralled: Singapore revisited / with a foreword by Henry J. Steiner//. Colorado, USA: Lynne Rienner Publishers.)) | ||
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| + | ==== Source ==== | ||
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| + | * Lent, J. A. (1981). The Perpetual See-Saw: Press Freedom in the ASEAN Countries. //Human Rights Quarterly, 3//(1), 62-77. | ||
| + | * Rabushka, A. (1986). //Economic, Civil and Political Freedoms: The cases of Singapore and Hong Kong.// Paper presented at the International Symposium on Economic, Political, and Civil Freedom. Retrieved April 25, 2008, from http://www.fraserinstitute.org/Commerce.Web/product_files/Rabushkach4.pdf. | ||
| + | * Seow, F. (1998). //The Media Enthralled: Singapore revisited / with a foreword by Henry J. Steiner//. Colorado, USA: Lynne Rienner Publishers. | ||
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| + | ==== Category of Repression ==== | ||
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| + | * Suspension of printing permits for eight days and partial restoration of printing permits. | ||