Singapore loosens up
26 November 2015 - 02:39
Strait-laced Singapore has slashed the number of publications it bans to 17 from a previous 257, allowing some communist and erotic adult topics, but kept a prohibition on Jehovah's Witnesses publications. Newly permitted books include Fanny Hill, a British novel published in 1748 said to be the first erotic novel in English, and The Long March, a Chinese communist history.
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