A NEW law banning the publication of false digital depictions of candidates during election periods will uphold the truthfulness of their representation and the integrity of Singapore’s elections. Digital Development and Information Minister Josephine Teo said this in Parliament during the debate on the Elections (Integrity of Online Advertising) (Amendment) – or Eliona – Bill, which was passed on Tuesday (Oct 15). The law amends Singapore’s election legislation, and will address “the most harmful types” of elections-related content, which misleads or deceives through a “realistic enough” false representation of a candidate’s speech or actions, said Teo. This comes ahead of the country’s impending general election, which must be held by November 2025. For content to be banned, four legal limbs must be satisfied: being or including online election advertising; being digitally manipulated; depicting an untrue representation; and being realistic enough for some members of the public to believe. This includes...

GUANGZHOU, Oct. 15 (Xinhua) — The 136th China Import and Export Fair, popularly known as the Canton Fair, kicked off in Guangzhou, the capital of south China’s Guangdong Province, on Tuesday. Themed “Serving high-quality development, promoting high-level opening-up,” this edition of the fair features more than 30,000 exhibitors showcasing 1.15 million new products. Many new companies, products, technolog Source link

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SINGAPORE – The youngest child of Singapore’s founding Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew said on Tuesday he would apply to demolish the statesman’s home in line with his wishes, following the death of Lee’s daughter last week. Lee Kuan Yew’s three children, one of whom is Singapore’s third Prime Minister Lee Hsie Source link

He intends to build a small private dwelling on the plot ‘to be held within the family in perpetuity’ LEE Hsien Yang is applying to demolish his family home at 38 Oxley Road where his sister, Dr Lee Wei Ling, lived before she died on Oct 9. The younger son of founding prime minister Lee Kuan Yew shared in a Facebook post on Tuesday (Oct 15) that he intended to “build a small private dwelling to be held within the family in perpetuity” in the demolished asset’s place. He also reiterated his father’s wishes for the house to be demolished “immediately after” Dr Lee moved out. “I am the sole legal owner of 38 Oxley Road. After my sister’s passing, I am the only living executor of my father Lee Kuan Yew’s estate… It is my duty to carry out his wishes to the fullest extent of the law.” Citing...

New Delhi [India], October 14 (ANI): Andhra Pradesh Cabinet Minister Nara Lokesh on Sunday attended the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF) that kicked off with its Leadership Summit 2024 in New Delhi. The summit saw the participation of representatives from both nations belonging to various sectors, such as defence, clean energy and trade, to strengthen the dynamic partnership between the two nations. As the Mi Source link

SINGAPORE is proposing to create a separate entity that will hear civil appeals and other related proceedings from prescribed foreign jurisdictions, under a new Bill that was tabled in Parliament on Monday (Oct 14). If passed, the International Committee of the Singapore International Commercial Court (SICC) will provide parties with a transnational commercial dispute resolution option to hear their cases and appeals, said the Ministry of Law and Singapore Courts in a joint statement. It will not be part of the Singapore judiciary. Setting up the committee will further enhance the Republic’s offerings as an international dispute resolution hub, they added. The Bill follows the signing of a bilateral treaty between Singapore and the Bahrain government on Mar 20 to collaborate on the establishment of the Bahrain International Commercial Court. Under the collaboration, a new appeal mechanism was established to allow appeal cases from the Bahrain International Commercial Court to...

SINGAPORE, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) — The Singapore economy grew 4.1 percent year-on-year in the third quarter, extending the 2.9 percent growth in the previous quarter, according to the advance estimates released by the Ministry of Trade and Industry Monday. The manufacturing sector expanded 7.5 percent year-on-year in the third quarter, rebounding from the 1.1 percent contraction in the previous quarter. All m Source link

AFTER he found out that former Sengkang GRC MP Raeesah Khan had lied in Parliament, Workers’ Party (WP) chief and Leader of the Opposition Pritam Singh told a parliamentary committee investigating the matter that he had asked her to clarify the untruth to the House. In reality, Singh had on two different occasions told Khan to maintain her lie, said the prosecution on Oct 14, the first day of Singh’s trial. This meant that in attempting to downplay his own responsibility in Khan’s lying controversy, he had provided false testimony to the Committee of Privileges, it added. Khan had admitted in Parliament on Nov 1, 2021, that she misled Parliament on Aug 3, 2021 and Oct 4, 2021, when she claimed and then restated that she had accompanied a sexual assault victim to a police station. The former Sengkang GRC MP first disclosed her lie to Singh on Aug...

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