The prospect of civil society in Singapore

Illegal protest, IMF Meeting, Singapore, September 2006 Image source: t3htarik There is an excellent piece in the October edition of the Far Eastern Economic Review – recently banned (again) by the Singapore government — by Australian academic and Singapore watcher, Garry Rodan. Among other things, the article (pasted below in the event the link is [...]

Yah-boo!

Shi Tao (Chinese journalist) Image source: www.irrepressible.info Wired Magazine reports this week that a study has revealed about a third of big companies in the United States and the UK hire employees to read and analyse outbound e-mail to “guard against legal, financial or regulatory risk”. To protect your privacy, therefore, it is probably wise [...]

No politics please, we’re Singaporean

Dr Balaji Sadasivan, Image source: Channel NewsAsia In the so-called knowledge economy, where the source of international competitive advantage is creativity of thought fuelled by the free exchange of ideas, the PAP Government in Singapore seems intent on remaining firmly ensconced in the 20th century. The latest public pronouncement on freedom of speech might easily [...]