THE TEMASEK REVIEW

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... 

To give a new twist to an old saying: Justice unevenly applied is justice denied. Alan Shadrake, in his new book, Once a Jolly Hangman — Singapore justice in the dock, shows how uneven it is. It’s a tour de force covering cases from the early 1990s to nearly the present, many of them ending with the prisoner meeting... 

Over the past few decades, investigative journalism has come to mean the kind of brave reporting that exposes injustice, wrongdoing and, above all, the abuse of power. Alan Shadrake’s hard-hitting new book cuts through the façade of official silence to reveal disturbing truths about Singapore’s use of the death penalty.... 

By Michael Cole from Taipei Times Book: Politics and Change in Singapore and Hong Kong: Containing Contention by Stephan Ortmann It has often been said that democracy is not endemic to Asia, or that its development is inevitably stunted by so-called “Asian values” or “Chinese characteristics.” Opponents of this... 

By Tan Jing Quee, co-author of The Fajar Generation: The University Socialist Club and the politics on postwar Malaya and Singapore (An excerpt of Mr Tan’s article from page 263 to 297, republished here with the kind permission of Mr Tan so that more Singaporeans are able to know about the history of their nation from... 

By Tan Jing Quee, co-author of The Fajar Generation: The University Socialist Club and the politics on postwar Malaya and Singapore (An excerpt of Mr Tan’s article from page 263 to 297, republished here with the kind permission of Mr Tan so that more Singaporeans are able to know about the history of their nation...