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TheStar: Advertising watchdog denies claims of 'double standard'
Sunday, 02 October 2011 12:24
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SINGAPORE: A watchdog – which wants an advertisement of a topless man removed – has defended its move in the face of online allegations of double standards.

Users on online forums have questioned why the Advertising Standards Authority of Singapore (ASAs) has not also suspended lingerie ads featuring semi-nude models in public areas such as bus stops and shopfronts.

The Straits Times, in an article on Thursday, reported that Asas had found the ad, plastered on the front of an upcoming outlet for American fashion retailer Abercrombie & Fitch, to have breached decency rules.

ASAs chairman Tan Sze Wee told The Straits Times that the ad was put up in a prominent location at the Knightsbridge mall in Orchard Road.

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