Blogger Roy Ngerng raised over $36,000 in two days through crowdsourcing to pay his legal fees in the defamation lawsuit PM Lee has brought against him. That’s way more impressive than the ten days it took Singapore Democratic Party Secretary Chee Soon Juan to raise $30,000 in 2012 for a different defamation lawsuit and related bankruptcy.

45 arts groups came together to oppose the Media Development Authority’s proposed scheme letting groups self-classify their own shows. The arts groups say the move would encourage self-censorship and create fines and penalties for erroneous classifications.

Taxi booking app GrabTaxi raised an additional USD15 million to fund its expansion into other Southeast Asian cities and to offer better incentive programs to drivers.

A five-hectare eco-garden opened in Jurong West, at the CleanTech Park industrial estate. The park has walking trails, a lookout point and a freshwater swamp that gathers rainwater to maintain the rest of the park.

Singapore is hosting not one, not two but three international sustainability-themed summits this week: the World Cities Summit, Singapore International Water Week and the Clean Enviro Summit. At the opening ceremony, PM Lee cited London, Copenhagen and Bilbao as cities to emulate for their public transport, pocket parks and arts management respective.