The fake impersonator page, Salleh Marican For President, and Mothership.sg have come under fire from the presidential hopeful's team after the former published remarks about the hijab under his name without authorization, while the former wrongly attributed those same comments to him.
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MOTHERSHIP WEBSITE GOES DOWN LIKE SMRT
Readers of Mothership.sg encountered a problem that seemed to be their website being hacked. The website had displayed 'hang on, mothershit is getting its shit together hahhahahahah'.
Read More »HOW DOES THE TRANS PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP (TPP) RESTRICT MEDIA FREEDOM IN S’PORE
In addition to this enforcement of copyright could be extremely damaging to free speech because it makes open platforms for user generated content like mothership, all Singapore Stuff etc. economically untenable. This is extremely devasting as these websites could be hit with copyright blocks (Especially to shut out opposition) because of a single picture of Lee Hsien Loong.
Read More »MDA DEMANDS ALTERNATIVE MEDIA MOTHERSHIP.SG & THE MIDDLE GROUND TO BE REGISTERED
Two sociopolitical sites, earlier notified by the the Media Development Authority (MDA) that they are required to register under the Broadcasting Act, will comply. They are The Middle Ground (TMG), co-founded by ex-journalist Bertha Henson, and Mothership.sg, which is backed by a social enterprise known as Project Fisher-Men.
Read More »WEIRD SINGAPORE LAW: YOU CAN KNOCK DOWN A CAT AND GET AWAY WITH IT
As reported by Channel News Asia, among one of the recommendations made by the Animal Welfare Legislation Review Committee was to make the definition of animals in the Road Traffic Act the same as the Animals and Birds Act, which defines an animal as any mammal (other than man) or fish and includes any other living creature.
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“I came here because my daughter asked me to.” “I have friends and colleagues who are gay…” she added, when I asked if she knew anyone who identified as LGBT. She later took pictures with stage actor and director Ivan Heng, who cross dressed as a samsui woman.
Read More »Crazy weather patterns in S’pore causing unusual mass blooming of flowers
Plants and trees across Singapore have started to go into full bloom out of the blue, as such mass flowering is rarely seen here. According to Oh Cheow Sheng, the director of streetscape at the National Parks Board (NParks), the likeliest cause for this mass flowering is the recent prolonged dry spell in Singapore that lasted for more than a month that was followed by a few days of heavy rain.However, this doesn’t explain the precise biological reason as to how the mass flowering is triggered.
Read More »MDA ASKS WEBSITE MOTHERSHIP.SG TO REGISTER UNDER BROADCASTING ACT
In a statement on Thursday, the Media Development Authority (MDA) said it had notified Project Fisher-Men on March 27, to register under the Broadcasting (Class Licence) Notification, which was enacted under Section 9 of the Broadcasting Act. The MDA said it had assessed that the website meets the registration criteria and it must register by April 11. This is as it promotes or discusses political issues relating to Singapore, and is "structured as a corporate entity which is deemed to be more susceptible to coming under foreign influence through foreign funding". It added that the registration will not in any way affect what mothership.sg can publish on its site.
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