IT really is too much: the writer of a letter to a newspaper has been jailed. This has never happened before.

The case that makes us so upset began with several letters sent to the editors of various newspapers a year ago. The writers—Fifi Tanang, Kho Seng Seng, Pan Esther and Kwee Men Luang—sent one of their letters to the Warta Kota daily. In the letter, Fifi explained that she discovered the apartment she had bought, and the kiosk bought