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Cheong Yip Seng
Cheong Yip Seng is a former editor-in-chief of Singapore Press Holdings' English and Malay Newspapers Division. He is an editorial adviser for SCMP Publishers.

Under Lee Kuan Yew, the press was only as free as it needed to be to serve Singapore

For Lee, the media was one of three institutions in Singapore he needed to control in order to govern effectively. The other two were the Treasury and the armed forces.
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