Bilahari Kausikan - Live streaming of Parliamentary session is not 'genuine transparency'

Singapore — Barely minutes into the first livestream of a
Parliamentary session on Monday (Jan 4), a former Singapore diplomat
criticized the move, calling it “a mistake”.
In a Facebook post on his own page, Bilahari Kausikan wrote that the
move “is a mistake. It will undoubtedly be hailed as a step in the
direction of ‘transparency’. But the real effect will not be genuine
transparency”...

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