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