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Straits Times
30-06-2025
- Business
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Former NUS law dean Thio Su Mien dies aged 86
Madam Thio Su Mien was the first woman dean of the NUS law faculty, a post she held from 1969 to 1971. PHOTO: THE NEW PAPER FILE SINGAPORE - Former National University of Singapore (NUS) law dean Thio Su Mien died at the age of 86 on the morning of June 30. Dr Thio died from acute myeloid leukaemia, which she was diagnosed with in early May. She was the first woman dean of the NUS law faculty, a post she held from 1969 to 1971. Aged 30 when she was appointed, she was also the youngest person to assume the role . Dr Thio's son, Senior Counsel Thio Shen Yi of TSMP Law Corporation, said Dr Thio was a legal luminary to many. The 58-year-old, who was Law Society president from 2015 to 2016, added: 'But more importantly to me, mum taught me to value fairness and justice, and to speak up for what I believed was right. I hope I've done a bit of that.' Former Nominated Member of Parliament Thio Li-ann, Dr Thio's first daughter, said her mother was a woman of great courage, integrity and justice 'who loved her family, church and country'. 'A committed Christian, she devoted hours teaching and counselling many, earnest that they be whole and find their call and destiny, as she most indubitably did,' said Professor Thio, 57. Dr Thio founded Singapore-based TSMP Law Corporation with Ms Tan Bee Lian in 1998. As one of the foremost constitutional law experts in Singapore, she served as a judge on the World Bank Administrative Tribunal and the Asian Development Bank Administrative Tribunal. Dr Thio also played a key role in the 2009 takeover of the Association of Women for Action and Research's (Aware) leadership by a Christian faction. Dr Thio was married to Olympian and real estate tycoon Thio Gim Hock, who died at the age of 82 in 2020. The couple had three children. Their youngest child Thio Chi-ann, 52, is a housewife who lives in the UK. Join ST's WhatsApp Channel and get the latest news and must-reads.
Straits Times
22-05-2025
- Straits Times
Seoul's new AI ‘flags, requests removal of sexually abusive content in 6 minutes'
The AI-powered system will reduce the process time from an average of almost three hours to just six minutes. PHOTO: THE NEW PAPER SEOUL - The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced on May 21 that it had developed South Korea's first AI-powered system that automatically monitors, detects, reports and requests the removal of sexually exploitative content online within minutes. The city government plans to introduce the AI tool, which it says will reduce the time required from initial monitoring to filing deletion requests to just six minutes. Previously, the entire process took an average of almost three hours, as authorities had to manually locate illegal videos circulating on social media platforms, online communities and illicit websites, and then file deletion requests with the respective sites. Since 2023, the city government has worked with the Seoul Institute to monitor sexually exploitative content on social media websites, online communities and the dark web with AI, but the system wasn't able to do more than monitor. However, the newly developed AI tool is able to generate a report of its findings, after which the system automatically drafts an email requesting that the website operators delete the content. The email and report are then checked by an official in charge before it is sent to the website operators. Additionally, amid an increasing number of cases where sexually exploitative videos are uploaded to foreign servers, the city government added that it will also be able to monitor content posted overseas. The email sent to website operators can also be drafted in up to seven languages, such as English, Chinese, Japanese, Russian and Vietnamese. The city government's support centre for digital sex crime victims provides 'one-stop support' for victims, as it helps not only to remove sexually exploitative content but also provides investigative and legal support, psychological therapy and medical assistance for the victims. According to numbers provided by the city government, the center has received reports filed by up to 3,650 people between 2022 and March 2025 and has helped handle 64,677 cases. The majority of the victims were in their teens and 20s, with a significant increase in digital sex crime victims among children and teenagers over the last few years. The center recorded as many as 50 such cases in 2022, a number that increased to 624 in 2024. THE KOREA HERALD/ASIA NEWS NETWORK Join ST's Telegram channel and get the latest breaking news delivered to you.
