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Mothership was started in 2013 as a socio-political blog for young Singaporeans. The timing of its conception coincided with a period of political and social change in Singapore following the watershed elections of 2011. [2] Mothership's "48 reasons why you still feel for Singapore" was published in August 2013 when the site was in beta phase ...
CNA (TV network) CNA (stylised as cna; an initialism derived from the previous name, Channel NewsAsia) is a Singaporean multinational news channel owned by Mediacorp, the country's state-owned media conglomerate. CNA broadcasts free-to-air domestically in Singapore, and internationally as a pay television channel to 29 territories across the ...
BBC News (known as BBC World News until 2023) is an international English-language pay television channel owned by BBC Global News Ltd.— a subsidiary of BBC Studios —and operated by the BBC News division of the BBC. The network carries news bulletins, documentaries, and other factual programmes; its programming is based out of studios in ...
Georgia: PIK was a Caucasus-focused news channel broadcasting in Russian in 2010-2012. Japan: NHK World-Japan (English). South Korea: Arirang (English). Singapore: CNA is a 24-hour Singaporean multinational English-language news channel owned by the country's national public broadcaster Mediacorp. CNA covers global developments with an Asian ...
The Singapore Tiger Standard, an English morning daily newspaper, was accused as "anti-Merdeka" by S. Rajaratnam, and was closed in 1959 after the People's Action Party came to power. [8] In 1971, the Government crackdown on newspapers perceived to be under foreign influence or with subversive tendencies; saw the closing of The Eastern Sun and ...
The history of the Republic of Singapore began when Singapore was expelled from Malaysia and became an independent republic on 9 August 1965. [1] After the separation, the fledgling nation had to become self-sufficient, however was faced with problems including mass unemployment, housing shortages and lack of land and natural resources such as ...
Independent Online, popularly known as IOL, is a news website based in South Africa.. IOL serves the online versions of a number of South African newspapers, including The Star, Pretoria News, The Daily Voice, Cape Times, Cape Argus, Weekend Argus, The Mercury, Post, Diamond Fields Advertiser, Isolezwe, Daily Tribune, Sunday Tribune, The Independent on Saturday, and The Sunday Independent.
e. Presidential elections were scheduled to be held in Singapore on 13 September 2017. Following amendments to the Constitution of Singapore, which resulted in the elections being reserved for candidates from the Malay community, incumbent president Tony Tan, who had been elected in 2011, was ineligible to seek re-election.