Field Report: Pressing for Openness in Singapore

Issue Date April 2001
Volume 12
Issue 2
Page Numbers 157-167
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Although friendly to business, Singapore’s government represses dissent and is far from transparent in its management of public funds. A leading dissident chronicles his struggle for greater openness.

About the Author

Chee Soon Juan is secretary-general of the Singapore Democratic Party and director of the Open Singapore Centre. Formerly a researcher in neuropsychology at the National University of Singapore and currently a visiting fellow at the University of Chicago, he is author of To Be Free: Stories from Asia’s Struggles Against Oppression(1998), Singapore, My Home Too (1995), and Dare To Change: An Alternative Vision for Singapore (1994).

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