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Poor little billionaire

According to the Guardian, Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal has sued Forbes magazine for libel in a British court, for valuing him at ONLY 20 billion. Oh poor thing, what will his billionaire prince friends think of him if they read that report?

When I shared this on FB, one of my readers said it reminded him of this joke:

'A Saudi prince goes off to study in a university in Berlin.

A month later, he sends a letter to his dad saying: "Berlin is wonderful, people are nice and I really like it here, but I'm a bit ashamed to arrive to school with my gold Mercedes when all my teachers travel by train."

Sometime later he gets a letter from his dad with a ten-million-dollar check saying: "Stop embarrassing us, go and get yourself a train too!"'

MDA displays its light touch once again

Caption from Simisai Also Licence: "Ministers who touch more than 500 bananas are required to apply for a Touch My Banana Licence."

Once again, the MDA shows us their "light touch" of the Internet, according to this Reuters report: http://mrbrwn.co/13gWfGx

Online news sites that report regularly on issues relating to Singapore and have significant reach among readers here will require an individual license, Singapore's Media Development Authority (MDA) said in a statement…

Conditions for the sites that require individual licenses, which have to be reviewed annually, include a performance bond of S$50,000 ($39,700) and a requirement that objectionable content be removed within 24 hours when directed by the MDA.

The MDA said the new regulation did not apply to blogs, though adding: "If they take on the nature of news sites, we will take a closer look and evaluate them accordingly."

I guess when you can't shut people up, you make them apply for licence.