International Herald Tribune
23 Jul 2008
SINGAPORE: Restraint is the buzzword at an annual meeting of Asia-Pacific diplomats.
With a huge pack of journalists, photographers and TV crews scrambling over diplomats from 27 countries in the lobby of Singapore's swank Shangri-La Hotel, the rule-obsessed government of Singapore on Wednesday issued a stern advisory to the media: Behave!
Just days after the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations urged Cambodia and Thailand to show "utmost restraint" in their border dispute, Singapore repeated the warning as it admonished the media for jeopardizing the safety of delegates and hotel guests.
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