Tag Archives: democracy

Quote of the day

“The new media age of Web 2.0 is threatening only if you believe that an excess of democracy is the road to anarchy.” ~ Richard Stengel, Managing Editor of TIME.

A chronology of authoritarian rule in Singapore

Oct 1994 : In connection with a commentary he wrote in the International Herald Tribune stating how judiciaries in some Asian countries are compliant to ruling powers, American academic Dr.Christopher Lingle was questioned for 90 minutes by the Singapore police for possible contempt of court and criminal defamation. Within a week, he returned to the… Read More: A chronology of authoritarian rule in Singapore »

Singapore must be a damn safe place

A recent event provided testimony that Singapore is one of the “safest” places in the world. It has few disturbances to social harmony, and when it does, the agitator is swiftly put behind bars. The event also showed that the Singapore police force must have very few crimes to solve and very few law breakers… Read More: Singapore must be a damn safe place »

More of the same?

Before we get carried away by the inroads made by the opposition parties in the recently concluded general election in Singapore, here’s a cautionary analysis of the election results by Law Sin Ling:Reflection on General Election 2006(The following observation is made under the assumption that the polling process had not been perverted by widespread fraudulent… Read More: More of the same? »