Edwin Tong

Platforms currently have between 6 and 48 hours to respond after being notified, depending on the type of harm.

Law Minister Edwin Tong says the government is targeting shorter response times.

It also wants platforms to provide dedicated channels for victims to report online harms, including by hosting the notification forms directly, instead of requiring victims to download the forms from the law ministry's website.

The government is also looking at making it easier to legally pursue perpetrators or platforms overseas.

Platforms currently have between six and forty-eight hours to respond after being notified, depending on the type of harm.

Law Minister Edwin Tong says the government is targeting shorter response times.

It also wants platforms to provide dedicated channels for victims to report online harms, including by hosting the notification forms directly instead of requiring victims to download the forms from the Law Ministry's website.

The government is also looking at making it easier to legally pursue perpetrators or platforms overseas.

Platforms currently have between 6 and 48 hours to respond after being notified, depending on the type of harm.

Law Minister Edwin Tong says the government is targeting shorter response times.

It also wants platforms to provide dedicated channels for victims to report online harms, including by hosting the notification forms directly, instead of requiring victims to download the forms from the law ministry's website.

The government is also looking at making it easier to legally pursue perpetrators or platforms overseas.

The government says it will work with designated online platforms to respond more quickly to victims of online harms.

Law Minister Edwin Tong says the authorities will work towards shorter response times as platforms become more familiar with Singapore's new online safety framework.

Platforms currently have between six and forty-eight hours to respond after being notified, depending on the type of harm.

Straightforward cases, either involving intimate images shared without consent or child abuse material, require a response within six hours.

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15 years, I guess we have had Edwin Tong, Senior Counsel, and Tan Siling.

Right? We need big names, CEOs and...

someone like Kei Shanmugam at the top of his career decides to leave and join government really they you know they truly believe that you know this is their calling that they you have to do it in the national interest and previously in the previous in the 2001 election they got a slew of these people right and so on So that is going to be the big test for this PM, recruitment of private sector guys.

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Singapore is lowering on-block consent thresholds for older private developments, with Law Minister Edwin Tong saying urban renewal has become increasingly important as buildings age.

Developments aged 40 to 59 will need 70% owner consent, down from 80%, while those aged 60 and above will need 65%.

Thresholds for newer projects stay unchanged.