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April Fool's might have come and gone, but it looks like The Straits Times enjoys pulling a fast one its readers. Eagle-eye readers highlighted that the article on 26 April 2014 about Mr Muhammad Ariff Ahmad had a full paragraph of Lorem Ipsum placeholder text. As one Reddit member said "You had one job editor!" Source: http://www.reddit.com/r/singapore/comments/240e4e/todays_straits_times_had_a_whole_paragraph_of/ The editor responsible for this should have tried the Singlish Lorem Ipsum. You can say its about localisation... From http://singlish-ipsum.appspot.com/ ,  Last time policemen wear shorts! Don't fly my aeroplane He still small boy one Catch No Ball Nia. Catch No Ball ORD then you know! No horse run! Don't fly my kite No horse run! Got problem ah? Atas Buay Song Don't fly my aeroplane then you know! No horse run! Got problem ah? Blur like sotong Don't fly my kite Don't fly my kite Ngeow White Horse ORD loh. Relak lah! last...

You are what you tweet. So if your are a PR professional, be extra careful when you tweet your own personal thoughts on social media. To read more, click here .

The Breakfast Network has decided not to register under the Broadcasting (Class Licence) Notification and the Media Development Authority (MDA) has required to the social-political site to close. To read more, click here .

Punggol West’s New Year’s celebrations has come under fire from Facebook users as the area is celebrating the countdown to 2014 with the mass release of balloons. Click here to read more.

Nielsen released their Radio Diary Survey and both radio broadcasters were quick to blow their own trumpets that they both had the No 1 English radio station.  So who really has the number one English radio station in Singapore? Click here to read more -  http://aaronkoh.com/sph-mediacorp-declares-singapores-1-english-radio-station-wrong/

(Update:  Asiaone  and  Wanbao  have apologised to Nicole.) Nicole Seah, a member of a an opposition party and an Internet darling of the 2011 Singapore General Elections, was on the receiving end of some “gutter journalism” from the local mainstream media, WanBao and Asiaone.com. Both WanBao and Asiaone.com titled an article that Nicole Seah was dating a “married” man based on a photo posted by Nicole herself. However, in the article itself, it was stated that this so called married man was already divorced. To read more, click here .

We know the cause of  unhappy Singaporeans as shared in a Gallup survey declaring Singaporeans as the most unhappy group of people in the world – the Internet. To read more, click here .