Singapore stopped its national library from destroying two children’s books with gay themes following an outcry over literary censorship in the tightly regulated city-state.
Information Minister Yaacob Ibrahim ordered the books moved to the adult section, where parents can borrow them for their children, after another title had already been “pulped” by the National Library Board (NLB).
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