Tag Archives: Straits Times 29 Oct 2014

Their argument is that Section 377A infringes their rights to equality under Article 12 of the Constitution and violates their rights to life and personal liberty under Article 9. The Attorney-General’s Chambers, however, asserts that the provision does not breach the Constitution.

THE Western media may paint popular democracy as a good thing but politics operates in different ways in Asia, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said yesterday. "If you look at the countries in Asia, you'll know these are complicated countries and they work in different ways. "Even when you have elections, the power structure, the politics, the government functions in different ways in these countries," he added.