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Agence France-Presse, October 12, 2007
SINGAPORE — Singaporean celebrities are rapping for repeal of a law that makes gay sex a criminal offence. The celebrities appear in a video posted on the YouTube website in support of a Singaporean legislator’s push to repeal a law making gay sex a criminal offence, activists said Friday. “Repeal it!” the celebrities urge in the video which ends with the words: “It’s not just a gay thing. It’s about equality.”
Source: Mr Wang Says So

Pink Issues
- Hear ye! Hear ye!: The fallacy of polling as support for retaining S377A
- Perils of a Reluctant Chauvinist: Repeal Penal Code s377A
- The Online Citizen: Parliamentary petition to repeal 377A: not just any other petition
- Diary of a Singaporean Mind: Why we must keep Section 377A..!

Burmese Protests
- Singapore Patriot: UN Security Council deplores use of violence against peaceful demonstrators in Myanmar
- Chemical Generation Singapore: Asking George Yeo to Act
- Pseudonymity: One-Man Protest Tomorrow Noon Outside Istana

Transport Fare Hikes
- Mollymeek: Don’t politicize transport fare hikes; politicize how good things are
- In the land of the blind, one eye man is king: Transport Minister’s Circular Argument: It Goes One Full Circle

CPF & Annuities
- My Singapore News: Is CPF turning into a robber?
- the-double-0-project.net: $20,000 requirement on CPF OA

The LKY Interview
- Simple is the Reason of My Heart: Singapore: City State or Re-Merger?

Daily Discourse
- The Kway Teow Man: Give the Hawkers a Break Can?
- What Others Say?: Why it will be tough for a Singaporean to beat the Jews at the Nobel Prize?
- The Anti Neo-Democracy Theorist: Can Singapore produce a nobel prize winner?
- e pur si muove: Boffins in an anti-intellectual world
- Ian on Singapore: I Used To Be Addicted To Magic Cards
- All and Sundry Singapore: Bank Secrecy Law, Money Laundering and Tax Evasions
- HWZ: Desperate SDP

Life, the universe and everything
- “Vanity, thy name is Woman.”: Seatbelts and safety nets
- Ridzwan.com: Hantaran Calculator
- a writer’s blog: TOC speaks to Ephraim

Infoblogoramus
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Traffic Accident – How to claim on your Insurance
- Fresh Brainz 新鲜脑汁: Embryonic Stem Cell Lecture

Odex Update
- SG Review: Perspectives: Zero the Hero

At 20, Aya Hirano 平野綾 is probably every otaku’s favourite Seiyuu and J-pop singer. Her big break came in 2006 when she was cast as the voice of the title character in the immensely popular The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, which bagged her a Best Newcomer award at the first Seiyū Awards. Her CD single Bōken Desho Desho? containing the opening song of the show also sold out in Japan on the first day of released. Her popularity was confirmed when she successfully released her first photo book “Stairway to 20”.

Aya Hirano has just released her second photo book “1/19 Bmp“. Her latest single “Love★Gun” (a typical Aya punk/rock number) was released recently while two other singles will be released before the end of the year.

Pictures of Aya Hirano, the anime that made her a household name among anime fans, and a live performance of the song God Knows after the break.
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