Veteran Singaporean newspaper editor PN Balji on press freedom, Lee Kuan Yew and the ‘sin’ of self-censorship

Government dominance over Singapore’s media dating back to the era of Lee Kuan Yew, the city state’s late founding prime minister, will likely continue even as a new generation of leaders prepare to take power, according to one of the country’s most respected former newspaper editors.PN Balji, the former chief editor of the English language newspapers Today and The New Paper, said however that during his decades-long career he found Lee – father of the current Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong –…