Singapore: A comfortable model?
John Kampfner, former editor of The New Statesman (2005-2008) and now chief executive of Index on Censorship, a British group promoting freedom of expression, weighed in on the Alan Shadrake case. He wrote a commentary in The Guardian after the 76-year-old freelance British journalist was found guilty of contempt of court over...
The Singapore Miracle – Myth and Reality
Singapore is brilliant at self-promotion, says an Australian analyst, but it is no financial dynamo. Much of the world has been deluded by its hollow roars of success Singapore, the modern city-state known for its authoritarian ways and conservative government, has a reputation for functional efficiency and capitalist success. The...
Former Solicitor General Francis Seow on “Beyond The Blue Gate”
May 21, 1987, will forever remain Singapore’s own day of infamy, the day when Lee Kuan Yew, then Prime Minister, using the guise of internal security, abused its executive powers by ordering the arrest and detention of twenty-two innocent young men and women (Operation Spectrum), who were associated with the Roman Catholic...
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