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Andy Wong: Delayed coverage on ‘Singapore-washing’ highlights media freedom issues in Singapore



Singaporean critic Andy Wong Ming Jun characterized Bloomberg's recent article, "Singapore-washing has hit a wall," as an embarrassment for the Singaporean government and a reflection of media censorship in the city-state. Despite Wong first highlighting "China Cuckooing" in Singapore in February, he noted it took four months for Singaporean state media to finally to cover the issue by re-publishing Boomberg's piece.

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SINGAPORE: A man was fined S$42,000 on Friday (Apr 8) for possessing more than 4,200 obscene videos and photos.

Wong Ming Jun, also known as Andy Wong, 28, had pleaded guilty to three charges of possessing obscene materials, with another eight similar charges considered for sentencing.

Wong was the author of an opinion piece in Nikkei Asia that criticised the Government's handling of KTV lounges amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

The piece was published in July last year, at the height of the infections linked to KTV lounges around the country. It drew a point-by-point rebuttal from the Ministry of Home Affairs, which called it "full of inaccuracies".

Law and Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam questioned Wong's motive at the time, saying: "We are left to wonder if the criminal investigation against him was the reason for his diatribe based on falsehoods; and the extent to which he was doing a political hack job."

The offences dealt with on Friday were related to Wong's membership in a Telegram chat group which he joined in November 2018.

The chat group was linked to local forum Sammy Boy Forum, where users discuss pornography and other matters of a sexual nature, said the prosecution.

Police were alerted to the chat group on Oct 24, 2019, when a woman informed them that members shared lewd and indecent photos of girls in it and that it had more than 24,000 members.

Wong was arrested in his home on Nov 6, 2019, and his laptop and mobile phone were seized.

Police found more than 4,200 obscene videos and photos spread across these devices and thumb drives.