Archive for December, 2008
Lee Kuan Yew has advice for Korea, although it’s dated “a while ago”. Digital Chosun Ilbo: Korea has several clear strengths China is still missing, Lee said. First, it has the experience of being a member of the world economy for over 50 years while managing an outward-oriented economy. More time is needed for China [...]
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Tags: chosun ilbo, economic crisis, korea, lee kuan yew
Praise from Lee Kuan Yew for China. Xinhua: At a dialogue commemorating 30 years of China’s reform and opening up, Lee Kuan Yew, a witness of China’s 30 years of development, said that China is on the right track . “They have taken the smarter route,” he said, “I learn from you, I catch up, [...]
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Tags: china, lee kuan yew, xinhua
Continue cross-strait dialogue
Content-free story from the Straits Times. CONTINUED dialogue and cooperation across the Taiwan Strait is beneficial to both sides, especially during the current economic crisis, Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew has said. He made the comment on Thursday when the visiting vice chairman of Taiwan’s ruling Kuomintang party, Mr Chiang Pin-kung, called on him. At [...]
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Tags: china, cross-strait, lee kuan yew, taiwan
A remarkable duet of hagiography. First a self-satisfied article by Lee Kuan Yew’s granddaughter Lee Wei Ling: My needs are simple and I live a spartan life. I choose to practise in the public sector because I want to serve all patients without needing to consider whether they can pay my fees. I try not [...]
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Tags: daughter, hagiography, lee wei ling, national neuroscience institute
The predictably vitriolic official reply to the Wall Street Journal’s editorial on losing its contempt of court case. The lady doth protest too much? The fundamental disagreement between Singapore and the Journal (and its sister publications) has been that you want to force Singapore to change its rules to comply with U.S. norms, so that [...]
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Tags: conspiracy, contempt of court, wall street journal, wsj
A full video webcast of the Clinton-Lee dialogue session is now available on the CGI site. It’s interesting to note how Lee’s full comments are much more pessimistic than Channel News Asia’s cheery opinion that “Mr Lee expressed confidence that the US Treasury would be able to revive the economy”: “Falling asset prices, people feel [...]
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Tags: bill clinton, cgi, climate change, clinton global initiative, deflation, economy, lee kuan yew, recession
Lee Kuan Yew had a dialogue with Bill Clinton at the Clinton Global Initiative Asia meeting at the Grand Hyatt, Hong Kong today. 4:00 P.M. – 4:30 P.M. A Conversation with Lee Kuan Yew, Minister Mentor and Former Prime Minister of the Republic of Singapore Grand Ballroom Singapore Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew and former [...]
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Tags: bill clinton, cgi, clinton, financial crisis, hong kong, lee kuan yew
Singapore Maneuvers In Response to Chee
The Far Eastern Economic Review reports on how Chee Soon Juan has managed to put some pressure on the Lees. Under crossexamination by Mr. Chee during his defamation case in June, Minister Mentor Lee depicted the SDP leader as a political failure, contrasting him unfavorably with Singapore’s two elected opposition members of parliament, Singapore People’s [...]
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Tags: chee soon juan, feer, lee kuan yew, lee vs chee, sdp