SPH has been strongly advertising their Business Times News Tablet bundle on Facebook. However if anyone tries to point out that the deal is really a bad deal, that person is quickly blocked, and his comment deleted.
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SPH Removed From Straits Times Index
Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) will be removed from the Straits Times Index (STI). This move comes after SPH’s share price has been steadily declining, even after current CEO Ng Yat Chung took over the helm. SPH will be replaced by Mapletree Industrial Trust.
Read More »Covid19: Straits Times Removed Sentence About Policemen Who “Walked Past” Robertson Quay Social Gatherings
Recently there was public outcry over several photos of groups gathering along Robertson Quay. Some of these people were allegedly gathering around to socialise after buying takeaway alcohol from nearby restaurants. The Straits Times (ST) published a 17 May 2020 article on this incident. However sharp-eyed netizens noticed the state media had altered this article. Screenshots of the article showed the deleted sentence said "The marketing manager at SPH radio said she saw two uniformed policemen in the area, but they "just walked past"".
Read More »Covid19: Unethical Zaobao Journalist Published Story Taken From Instagram Without Permission
A Zaobao journalist known on IG as @songpei published a story on an NTU student who had Covid19, and took pictures from the latter's Instagram story without permission. The journalist had tried to ask the student for an interview about his experience with Covid, but the student declined and rejected him. However, he still went ahead to publish the story with the latter's IG pictures, and even details of his family members.
Read More »SPH PROFITS SLIDE AGAIN, WILL LAP DOG REPORTERS LOSE THEIR JOBS SOON?
Job cuts are on the horizon for SPH employees as profits slide for six straight quarters, attributed to decline in advertising sales in its media business. Here's hoping that reporters from Chua Mui Hong to Rachel Au-Yong to Elgin Toh will lose their jobs because political lapdogs don't deserve to get paid.
Read More »FAILED SCHOLAR CEO NG YAT CHUNG TAKES HELM OF SPH, WILL HE RUN IT INTO THE GROUND LIKE NOL?
Many Singaporeans are screaming with joy after learning that a former paper general has been appointed to head SPH because he is likely to take SPH down the same NOL path. Besides stating Ng “was previously CEO of shipping firm Neptune Orient Lines”, nothing else was mentioned about Ng’s achievements in the CNA article. Hmm .. which company hires a CEO with no past achievements?
Read More »SPH-OWNED HWZ FORUM DOING LITTLE TO CURTAIL RACIST OFFENSIVE REMARKS AGAINST S’POREAN MALAY MUSLIMS
I am very upset that Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) is not doing much to curtail the constant racist and offensive comments made by some of the members of Hardwarezone, a site that they own. From my observation, several members of that site like to make fun of Malays and Muslims. Even a thread that initially had nothing to do with Malays or Muslims will end up having someone turning it into one which will ultimately result in another person contributing an offensive remark.
Read More »TEENAGE MAG CONDONES VICTIM BLAMING OF RAPED GIRL
I am outraged by the blatant sexism and misogyny of Kelly's advice column in Teenage Magazine.
Read More »FALLING PROFITS FOR SPH LED TO MORE RUBBISH REPORTING BY 154 MEDIA?
Warren Fernandez seems to be getting quite desperate and running out of ideas - as his multiple revamp of the Straits Times fail to arrest declining revenues and readership figures with SPH suffering three straight years of falling profit - judging from the proliferation of news on handsome police and hawkers.
Read More »SPH STAFF HAD TO FIND OUT ABT RETRENCHMENT FRM YAHOO – THE IRONY!
I am writing on behalf of my dad who is a staff of SPH. And whom have not been sleeping well since he found out from Yahoo! about the impending retrenchment. How ironic! SPH prides itself as a reliable news source, yet its staff had to wait weeks to find out the news from other sources.
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