Billions of dollars is invested in Singapore annually so we can't be ranked so low on press freedom

Law Minister K. Shanmugam said rankings that place Singapore lowly on press freedom "struck him as quite absurd and divorced from reality".

"Our approach on press reporting is simple: The press can criticize us, our policies. We do not seek to condemn that.

But we demand the right of response, to be published in the journal that published the original article. We do not accept that they can decide whether to publish our response."

-- K. Shanmugam, Law Minister

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