Word: asiaweek
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recent years, Singapore officials have been vigorous in responding to what they considered unfair coverage of the country in foreign newspapers and magazines. In some cases, the government has moved to temporarily limit local circulation of foreign publications, including, at one time or another, those of the Economist, Asiaweek, Far Eastern Economic Review and Time. Some journals have had their circulation curtailed for refusing to print detailed government responses to critical articles about Singapore without editing them...
TIME too has had its problems. The magazine's circulation was cut from nearly 19,000 to 2,000 for seven months in 1987, after it failed to print promptly a government letter citing errors in a story about an opposition leader. The circulation of Asiaweek, a regional weekly owned by Time Warner, was cut from 11,000 copies to 500 in 1987 for similar reasons, then recently raised...
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