Singapore: Singapore has drastically cut its blacklist of banned books and publications, finally allowing citizens to read an erotic novel first published in the 18th century, but a host of adult magazines remain proscribed.
It is no longer a crime to own a copy of the historic English text Fanny Hill or some anti-colonial and communist publications dating back to Singapore’s troubled early years as a republic in the 1960s.
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