{"id":654,"date":"2016-11-14T11:10:06","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T11:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/pol\/?p=654"},"modified":"2020-10-13T11:26:20","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T11:26:20","slug":"singapore-security-dialogue-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/pol\/2016\/11\/14\/singapore-security-dialogue-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Singapore Security Dialogue 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><strong>*Pictures from the event are uploaded! Check out our gallery!<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Media Report from the Singapore Security Dialogue held on 14th November 2016<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Today Newspaper:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayonline.com\/singapore\/substantial-support-isa-spore-says-shanmugam\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Substantial Support for ISA in S&#8217;pore, says Shanmugam&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p><em>There is substantial support for the Internal Security Act (ISA) in Singapore, with the public generally seeing the regional security context and understanding the government\u2019s use of it, said Law and Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam at a dialogue on Monday (Nov 14). \u201cI believe support for the ISA, if anything, has increased,\u201d he said, at a\u00a0<strong>dialogue organised by the National University of Singapore (NUS) Political Science Alumni Association\u00a0<\/strong>and security services firm TwinRock Global. He was responding to a question from a\u00a0<strong>political science student<\/strong>\u00a0on whether a shift towards liberal values \u2014 including calls to abolish the ISA on the basis of human rights \u2014 would affect the Government\u2019s ability to clamp down on divisive rhetoric.<\/em><\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"SSD\" src=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/pol\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2016\/11\/SSD.jpg\" alt=\"SSD\" width=\"900\" height=\"1273\" \/><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*Pictures from the event are uploaded! Check out our gallery! Media Report from the Singapore Security Dialogue held on 14th November 2016 Today Newspaper:\u00a0&#8220;Substantial Support for ISA in S&#8217;pore, says Shanmugam&#8221; There is substantial support for the Internal Security Act (ISA) in Singapore, with the public generally seeing the regional security context and understanding the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":247,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/247"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":671,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions\/671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}