The history of Singapore as presented by the one-party state is now being subject to unprecedented querying and interrogation absolute power of the PAP.
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Will Malaysia be a fulcrum connecting maritime and mainland parts of Southeast Asia or instead its fault line? Within and among Asean states, there are softly spoken concerns about Malaysia's domestic contradictions in recognition of the possibilities of massive social and political dislocation and even disintegration of the fractured country.
Read more: Malaysia's next 50 years: Domestic ethnocratic concerns
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With the lower levels of society serving the interests of the elite, there was little intrinsic group loyalty, and money had to serve as a poor substitute. Indeed, the degree to which the political arrangements and structures instituted by Lee Kuan Yew have warped Singapore society remain largely unexplored in mainstream media.
Read more: Singapore after Lee Kuan Yew
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The Batang Kali massacre occurred because, in Britain's Empire, principles – specifically the right to life and to its protection by laws to be enforced on an equal basis – were sometimes abandoned
Read more: Batang Kali massacre: Justice delayed again
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Back in 1983-1985, Dr Lim Teck Ghee received a research grant from the Rockefeller Foundation to study developmental NGOs serving as critics of bureaucracy that walked the tightrope between permissible and ‘subversive’ or ‘anti-national’ dissent in order to persuade the power holders to decentralize authority or establish public control systems for ensuring adequate social accountability.
Read more: We top Asean in (genuine) NGOs
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