Below are two articles that reported on the Asian Democracy forum organised by the Open Singapore Centre, 5th August 2000. What would have like to have known about the forum. Read the articles below and make up your own mind.
Keep Reading →The Falungong spiritual movement launched a promotional campaign in Singapore Monday, claiming members were being harassed by authorities although the group is legally registered.
Keep Reading →Speech by DAP Malaysia National Vice-Chairman, Lim Guan Eng in Singapore Le Meridien Hotel on Saturday, 5 Aug 2000.
Keep Reading →'The ISD's role is not only to stop the communist threat but also to guard against racial and religious extremism. It also investigates foreign espionage and subversive activity here, and prevents foreign terrorists from entering Singapore.'
Keep Reading →Singapore's government has made moves designed to allow its people to express themselves more freely, but skeptics say they do not really give more democratic space, Kelvin Ng reports for Inter Press Service.
Keep Reading →Tang says the shit-pot cover must be limited from parliament and Singaporeans should stop wishing their parents dead for their inheritance each they say "Singapore si bay ho".
Keep Reading →Self-Censorship: Singapore's Shame has landed in Singapore's academic landscape, but perhaps not where you would expect to find it. The book by THINK Centre director James Gomez, while flying off the shelves of Singapore's bookstores and finding its way into libraries seems to be selling well at the Kent Ridge campus of the National University of Singapore, yet its presence is not quite visible to the naked eye.
Keep Reading →Tang says the shit-pot cover must be limited from parliament and Singaporeans should stop wishing their parents dead for their inheritance each they say "Singapore si bay ho".
Keep Reading →Book Review: "Self-Censorship:Singapore's Shame", by James Gomez, Think Centre, Singapore.
Keep Reading →Unanswered questions on democracy and accountability in Singapore.
Keep Reading →To keep the democracy ball rolling in Asia, says James Gomez, there needs to be closer cooperation between those involved in each country.
Keep Reading →Self-Censorship: Singapore's Shame
By James Gomez, Think Centre Singapore, 1999, 90 pages S$18.90.
James Gomez is no stranger to media attention, finding himself in the spotlight when he ran for a place on the Student's Union during his political science undergraduate days at the National University of Singapore. "I was dubbed a 'student activist' and the press came to the hustings and followed my campaign," he says proudly. "I don't quite know what they thought I was going to do," he laughs.
Keep Reading →James Gomez gives an interview with Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News.
Keep Reading →THERE is nothing like a truly democratic election in a free society to give a new government a real air of legitimacy, as the Taiwan poll proved at the weekend.
Keep Reading →During a recent international business conference in Singapore, an American businessman shared his eye-opening experience from the previous evening. He was strolling along Orchard Road shortly after checking into his hotel when he spotted a youth wearing a T-shirt with "F*** Christ" printed in big bold letters across the chest. Instantly, his preconception about "squeaky clean" Singapore was blown apart.
Keep Reading →Expect a dot.com political party to spring up in Singapore, says a live wire political scientist who is using the Internet and a sense of fun to change his homeland.
Keep Reading →James Gomez will be travelling to Australia for three weeks to Australian Cities and Auckland in New Zealand.
Keep Reading →James Gomez's controversial book on Singapore's Shame has finally invaded Cyberspace! Think Centre's DOT.COM team has just launch a new "booksite" dedicated to everything and anything (good, bad and quirky) written online and in print about "Singapore's Shame".
Keep Reading →THE US State department released its annual Singapore County Report on Human Rights Practices for 1999 on February 25.
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