Ohio University OHIO Open Library Berita 2009 Berita Volume XXXIII, Number 4 (2009) Ronald Provencher Follow this and additional works at: https://ohioopen.library.ohio.edu/berita Part of the Asian Studies Commons Recommended Citation Provencher, Ronald, "Berita Volume XXXIII, Number 4 (2009)" (2009). Berita. 31. https://ohioopen.library.ohio.edu/berita/31 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by OHIO Open Library. It has been accepted for inclusion in Berita by an authorized administrator of OHIO Open Library. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. organized in such a way that it provided a ‘natural and fair BERITA – V.33, n.4 – 4th Qtr – 2009 -- PAGE 1 atmosphere’ that was akin to the external social environment; and ISSN 0273-4311 inmates felt comfortably at home in their settlement.], pp463-479; Table of Contents 3) Yeng-Chong Yee, review of Francis T Seow, 2006, Beyond Editor’s note........................1 Suspicion? The Singapore Judiciary. Yale Southeast Asia Studies Periodicals……..……………1 Monograph 55. 405 pp. ISBN 0-938692-86-0 . [From the review – Books ...………...……………5 While Seow’s meticulousness and his wit do make for an engaging Websites …….……………. 11 read, the accuracy of his account is often difficult to measure, and the Positions/Opportunities .. 11 prose does seem convoluted with bias on the part of Seow’s personal Amnesty International ......11 entanglements with the PAP in the 1980s – Reviewer suspects that In Memoriam….…………....12 this is less a fault with Seow’s work and more of an issue with the Prospectus ..……….……...12 local political culture itself, where informational opaqueness, a Research Staff ..……..……12 muzzled press and an enforced climate of fear, continue to render >Editor’s note most investigative word on local politics difficult – Nonetheless, the This is my last issue as editor book is laudatory as an important historical document of Singapore’s & publisher of Berita.