Singapore to block access to Canadian adultery website


PUBLIC OUTCRY: Singapore's Internet regulator will block access to infidelity website AshleyMadison.com following a public uproar over the Canada-based site's plan to offer a service in the South-East Asian city-state. — AFP

SINGAPORE: Singapore's Internet regulator will block access to infidelity website AshleyMadison.com following a public uproar over the Canada-based site's plan to offer a service in the South-East Asian city-state. 

Scrutiny of the site, which claims 22 million members in about 30 countries, forms part of a wider debate over censorship in the country of 5.4 million people. 

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