Singapore

November 2005 | Risk Summary

Britain's Warwick University has dropped plans to set up a campus in Singapore due to concerns about academic freedom. The city-state requires foreign educational institutions to abstain from interfering in domestic affairs, but this could detract foreign students from studying there. The outgoing US ambassador also expressed concerns about the limitations on freedom of expression in the city-state in October, when he made a rare public rebuke of the restrictions on free speech. Singapore's one-party political dominance has provided stability for the country's impressive economic advance, but the lack of open debate and constraints on discussion, could affect both the

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