International

By Sean Francis Han This year’s Super Tuesday consisted of participating states, Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado (with caucuses), Georgia, Massachusetts, Minnesota (with caucuses), Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, and Virginia. Three other Republican caucuses were held in Alaska, North Dakota, and Wyoming making Super Tuesday much more indicative of general electability on the Republican side. American Samoa also held a Democratic caucus …

Paris, 23 February 2016: The Singaporean government must immediately drop all charges against three peaceful protestors and guarantee the right to freedom of peaceful assembly in accordance with international human rights standards, FIDH said today. Activists Hui Hui Han, 24, and her supporters Mr. Koh Yew Beng (60) and Ms. Low Wai Choo (56) will appear before Singapore’s State Court …

54% of Singapore respondents in a survey stated that they would vote for presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton if given a choice to vote in the upcoming United States presidential election. The survey was conducted by SurveyMonkey between January 25 and 26, 2016 and received 363 responses from random people in Singapore. Majority or 50% of the total respondents state that …

By FIDH – International Federation for Human Rights The Singaporean government failed to address important human rights concerns that were raised during the country’s second Universal Periodic Review (UPR), FIDH said today. The UPR was held in Geneva, Switzerland, on 27 January 2016. “With regard to civil and political rights, the Singapore delegation went on an all-out defense of the status …

Repression of Free Speech and Assembly Undermine Credibility By Human Right Watch Singapore’s government increased scrutiny of the Internet in a year in which it further restricted rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2016. “In 2015, bloggers and online news portals increasingly faced punitive action for any criticism of …

Singapore ranks 75 out of 167 countries in the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)'s Democracy Index 2015. EIU in its report wrote, "The fearful era in which we live is not conducive to defending democratic standards or extending democracy's reach across the globe. The latest edition of The Economist Intelligence Unit's Democracy Index reflects the situation in 2015, a year in which …

By Peng Yu By now, everyone would have seen the campaigns trucks and mass rallies of the Taiwanese election 2016. But is anyone familiar with how ballot counting for the election works? The Online Citizen (TOC) takes you inside a counting centre in southern Taiwan for the recently concluded presidential and legislative elections there. Apart from the president and vice-president, …

Taiwan’s presidential candidates waded in to a row with China and South Korea on Saturday after a teenage Taiwanese K-pop star was forced to apologise for waving the island’s flag. A video apology from Chou Tzu-yu, 16, went viral hours after it was posted, with more than three million views “There is only one China and the two sides are one,” …

#KamiTidakTakut (We’re not afraid) is now trending on social media platform Twitter in Jarkata to show that Indonesians are not intimidated by the bomb attacks in the Indonesian capital as they shared news and well-wishes about the incident. Earlier on, six explosions were reported around Sarinah shopping mall in Jakarta, Indonesia on Thursday afternoon. Five attackers and two other people confirmed dead …

Update: Six explosions were reported with five attackers and two other people confirmed dead from the incident. Multiple explosions have been reported near Sarinah, a shopping mall in Central Jakarta on Thursday. 5th and 6th bombing — Jeremy Douglas (@jdouglasSEA) January 14, 2016 One police officer reportedly killed in the first blast.  More casualties have been reported but not yet confirmed. …