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Assignment 2
Is cyber bullying becoming a social ill day by day
Brief of the interview
In this section a brief of an important interview of the C.E.O of the leading newspaper
corporation located in Singapore. This interview was broadcast in the New Asia Channel of
Singapore as the topic of the interview is a very sensitive one regarding the cyber-bullying that is
increasing rapidly in Singapore.
Statistics of the issue
The interviewee stated that it is statistically proven that 1 out of every 4 students of
Singapore has faced cyber bullying and that has harmed their way of living the life. Under the
supervision of Mr. Zhang Wei, who is the interviewee, a team of 12 people did a series of
interviews of the students of Singapore and did a thorough survey regarding this burning issue.
After the investigation, some horrible facts were revealed and the team was shocked to see that
currently the 1/3rd of the student population of Singapore has faced cyber bullying at least once in
their student life and the rate of facing such issues are more for the students of primary schools
and that is more shocking (Barlett et al 2014).
Root cause
To find the cause it was revealed that the issue is more deep-rooted than it was predicted.
It was seen that, the victims of cyber bullying suffer badly but the people who bullies others are
actually going through a huge mental turmoil and that leads them to engage in such practices.

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The suicide rate of these bullies are actually 2 to 3 times more than the victims of cyber bullying
and this is a fact that is worth putting in some stress on it. To do the research work it was seen
that the rate of suicides among the teenagers and the young adults are higher than most of the
South-East Asian countries. Mr. Wei added that it is not rare that the friends influenced some
individuals to bully someone and to prove himself sometimes some students bully others using
the cyber platform and these kinds of activities needs to be stopped and parents should invest
more time with their kids to monitor their activities especially at the time of adolescence as that
is the most vulnerable phase of any child.
Initiatives of government
Considering these issues government of Singapore has passed a law regarding cyber
bullying and that explained that if the inappropriate contents from the internet will be taken
down and the uploader will be penalized according to the severity of their actions. After
implementing the law it is seen that rate of cyber bullying has gone down and that is where the
success of implementing the new law lies (Kwan and Skoric, 2013).

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Speech
Director of Ministry of Education on Cyber bullying, a burning issue of Singapore
Figure 1 Ministry of Singapore
7th October 2017
Tuesday
Queen’s college auditorium
At the graduation ceremony of reputed Queen’s College of Singapore, Mr. Shengwah
Kagawa, the director of Ministry of Education of Singapore was invited and he gave a speech
regarding the burning contemporary issue of cyber bullying that is majorly affecting the students
off Singapore. He said that recently the rate of cyber bullying was enhanced in a significant