Jakarta’s Christian governor has been sentenced to two years in jail for blasphemy, a harsher-than-expected ruling critics fear will embolden hardline Islamist forces to challenge secularism in Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation. Tuesday’s guilty verdict for Basuki Tjahaja Purnama…
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Assalamualaikum wr wb. To Those Who Are Reading This, Especially Ridjal Noor. I would like to apologise to PullUpStand.com Pte Ltd, its director and owner, Mr Ridjal Noor, for allegations made based on testimonies I had received. Upon further investigation,…
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I have spent several days reflecting on my conduct, in putting up a commentary that was neither accurate nor honest. I made a FB post on 24 April which misstated Minister Shanmugam’s views. I attributed to him views the very…
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The deaths of a new mother and her infant daughter at a HDB block in Fajar Road last November were found to have been part of a “deliberate act of suicide”, a Coroner’s Court heard on Tuesday (9 May). Koh…
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Plunging into the waters off East Coast Park not once, not twice, but thrice, housewife Silvia Hajas managed to pull three schoolboys to shore before it was too late. But the triathlete did not manage to reach one of the…
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