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Speakers'
Corner or 'Koyok' Corner?
The Speakers' Corner will be set up here soon. Will it strike a
blow for free speech or will it end up as a 'Koyok' Corner? And
whatever happened to the original Speakers' Corner at Hyde Park
in London?
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Now,
get up and speak
Even for a government that acts swiftly, to have a new avenue for
public discourse operative within a year of conception still leaves
many Singaporeans breathless. By August, Parliament was told on
Tuesday, the Hong Lim Park Speakers' Corner will be available to
all and sundry who care to speak their minds.
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No
licence needed at Speakers' Corner
The setting up of a Speakers' Corner provoked a lively and light-hearted
debate in Parliament with six MPs questioning Home Affairs Minister
Wong Kan Seng on the plan. This is an edited extract of the exchange.
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Speakers'
Corner : Govt is sincere
The venue could not have been more apt. Yesterday in Parliament,
the highest forum of free speech, Singapore's elected leaders declared
that Singaporeans would have a Speakers' Corner.
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The
speakers so far
Some of the people who had signed up to give speeches at the Speakers' Corner
as of 7pm, 21 Aug 2000.
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Seen
and Heard
It's not Hyde Park, but Speakers' Corner gives Singapore's people greater voice
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Articles courtesy of SPH
AsiaOne |