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Suffice to say that I choose not to pay the 16 cents a day for access to what is essentially a self-censored government mouthpiece.
It is amazing that they have an infrastructure to support thousands of online users, only to see that after their new money-making scam, less than 500 people have taken the bait. They claim to be 160 years old this year - the dead tree edition, btw - but what have they to show for
the 160 years? Nothing.
The Straits Times is nothing more than a small town newspaper. It is not the New York Times, or the Times of India, or the Wall Street Journal.
My country is suffering a serious deficiency in robust and healthy debate of issues because the media has failed the country.
