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They really are the same everywhere.

After a few years away from the online spotlight, Amos Yee is back online and has now renaming himself as the Polocle - a combination of his favourite words “polymath” and “oracle”. In a new blog post, Amos Yee shed more light on the infamous video 'Lee Kuan Yew is Finally Dead' that got him into trouble with the law, and his subsequent incarceration, detention and finally, escape into the America to seek asylum.

Huawei announced that users who have already bought its products will not be affected following its ban. It will continue to provide security updates and after sales services to its consumers. It did not forget to remind fans of its "substantial contributions" to the tech industry and users all over the world. Will Singaporeans remain indifferent or rush to sell their phones?

US activist who was helping Amos Yee with his asylum application congratulated him on being freed. She thinks his views are shaped by his experience and said he should not, as a result, be forced to conform to authority just because of this.

In a trip hailed as the US's attempt to get Southeast Asian countries on their side, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has left out Singapore in his very first tour through the region.

Activists in support of Amos Yee in the US have given an update on his status in prison, where he is still incarcerated while awaiting his trial to attain asylum in America.

A senior academic from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (LKYSPP), Professor Huang Jing, has been identified as “an agent of influence of a foreign country,” announced the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Friday (Aug 4). “The information was duly conveyed by that senior member of the LKYSPP to very senior public officials who were in a position to direct Singapore’s foreign policy. The clear intention was to use the information to cause the Singapore Government to change its foreign policy".

Singaporean graphic artist Sonny Liew has become the first Singaporean to win the international comic industry's prestigious Eisner Award at this year's edition of Comic-Con in the United States.

We would like to thank those who are concerned about Amos’s situation. Your love and outpouring of concern is greatly appreciated. We would like to take a moment to address a statement that was made by ambassador Bilahari Kausikan “In fact the well-being of the boy and his family were probably the least of their considerations if this was ever a consideration in the first place.”

I read this article https://qz.com/965680/yale-nus-in-singapore-is-now-harder-to-gain-admission-into-than-the-yale-harvard-or-any-of-the-ivy-league/ with astonishment at the level of self-entitled elitism that some Yale graduates put on display for the whole world to see.