Appendices 2008

Abbreviations are explained in the column on the right of the screen.

Month	Title, etc		Relevance
Dec 2008	Online campaign leads to rethink at DBS - the bank faced boycott calls from angry lesbian and gay customers		Soc, Hom, Oth [biz]
Nov 2008	Unbreakable ties - Gay Natee - The Bangkok Post profiles a prominent gay rights and HIV/Aids activist		Hom
Oct 2008	Nature and nurture are components of a single dynamic system, says professor - Brown University professor in biology and gender studies explains her views		Hom Kno
Oct 2008	Male transsexual gene link found - unusual gene length for androgen receptors		Hom, Kno
Oct 2008	The evolution of homosexuality - gender bending - The Economist magazine reports on new research by Brendan Zietsch		Hom, Kno
Oct 2008	Shouts for Blogtv's "Am I gay?" - what did viewers think when they watched Blogtv's program on gay sex education?		Soc, Med, Hom
Sep 2008	Contraception awareness among teenagers severely lacking - a quarter of teenagers aged 15-20 are having sex and half of them aren't using contraceptives		Soc
Sep 2008	Population up a record 5.5% - but mostly foreigners, in new data released by the Department of Statistics		Soc
Sep 2008	'Hong Lim Green' to turn somewhat pink - a gay parade on November 15?		Hom
Sep 2008	Chinese rentboys at Lucky Chinatown - The New Paper does an expose of the rentboy scene		Soc, Hom
Sep 2008	Why Burmese activists were deported - Deputy PM Wong Kan Seng explains to Parliament		Pol
Sep 2008	Siblings jailed for abusing maid - a shocking case of maid abuse		Law, Soc
Sep 2008	For and against making a mockery of the law - four letters in response to Ho Kwon Ping's op-ed		Pol, Law, Hom
Sep 2008	Foreigners have lower arrest rate - police provide data for 2007 to show that foreigners do not commit more crimes than locals		Law, Soc
Sep 2008	Stop making a mockery of the law: Let's accept gays - op-ed by Ho Kwon Ping in 'Today' newspaper		Pol, Law, Hom
Sep 2008	Pro-government newspaper paints free speech advocates as anarchists - media reports following our press conference		Pol, Med
Aug 2008	Burmese citizens denied renewal of visas in Singapore - press statement by Burmese political activists		Pol
June 2008	Let people form body to oversee net content - Sunday Times reports on the seminar about deregulation of the internet		Pol, Med
May 2008	Bureaucratic ambiguity and Internet freedom - Clarissa Oon of the Straits Times on the bloggers' proposal submitted to the government		Pol, Med
Apr 2008	Bumbling around EU-China ties - Jonathan Eyal of the Straits Times examines the poor handling of the Tibet/Olympic torch protests		Pol
Apr 2008	Olympic torch relay in Seoul - more protests and scuffing between Chinese and Koreans		Pol
Apr 2008	Censors extend their reach to videogames - new rules go into effect		Pol, Med
Apr 2008	What we need to do so as not to become irrelevant, ineffective - op-ed on state of journalism by Loh chee Kong, 'Today' newspaper		Med
Apr 2008	Bloggers to send ideas on internet regulation to govt - from 'Today' newspaper		Pol, Med
Apr 2008	Bloggers' group proposes sweeping changes in Internet regulation - press release by the bloggers' group		Pol, Med
Apr 2008	C*ns*rsh*p - op-ed by Ravi Veloo, 'Today' newspaper		Pol, Med