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Singapore govt launches blog for youth
The government of Singapore has launched a web site, www.p65.sg, to serve as a platform for Singaporeans born after the city-state’s independence in 1965 to write about “anything under the sun”, even race and religion.
Parliamentary Secretary, Teo Ser Luck said: “The p65 blog will serve to allow young people to share their views, which are non-partisan, neutral and can be constructive criticism of policies.”
The site is one of several moves by the governing party PAP and its MPs have taken to make themselves known online and gather feedback. In the past year, the People’s Action Party, Singapore’s ruling party, has revamped its web site to include videos and podcasts, while the MPs have set up accounts on social networking site Facebook and micro-blogging site Twitter.
The p65 blog was set up by the post-65 MPs five months after the 2006 election. The early postings were personal, non-political blogs for the young to get to know their political leaders. It was also a way for them to get feedback on political issues.
But the blog suffered from a lack of contributors, so the new site has lined up eight regular contributors, among them Singaporeans studying and working abroad.
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