Be aware of scammers impersonating as IMDA officers and report any suspicious calls to the police. Please note that IMDA officers will never call you nor request for your personal information. For scam-related advice, please call the Anti-Scam helpline at 1800-722-6688 or go to www.scamalert.sg.

Online News Licensing Scheme (ONLS) – Computer Online Service Licence

Under the Online News Licensing Scheme framework, online news sites will be individually licensed if they

  • report an average of at least one article per week on Singapore’s news and current affairs over a period of two months, and
  • are visited by at least 50,000 unique IP addresses from Singapore each month over a period of two months.

When IMDA has assessed that a site has met the criteria to be individually licensed, IMDA will issue a formal notification and work with the site to move it to the licensing framework.

The list of websites licensed under the ONLS is as follows -

  1. www.straitstimes.com
  2. stomp.straitstimes.com
  3. www.businesstimes.com.sg
  4. www.tnp.sg
  5. tnp.straitstimes.com
  6. www.zaobao.com.sg
  7. www.channelnewsasia.com
  8. www.todayonline.com
  9. sg.news.yahoo.com
  10. www.asiaone.com
  11. mothership.sg

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LAST UPDATED: 11 FEB 2022