Archive for April, 2009
Lee Kuan Yew goes sightseeing in Singapore. AsiaOne:
THE Singapore Flyer had a special guest yesterday – Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew, who boarded the world’s largest observatory wheel to experience both the sunset and night rides. MM Lee, on his first visit to the 165m high, $240-million Flyer which opened a year ago, had [...]
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Tags: economy, green shoots, lee kuan yew, singapore flyer, swine flu, tourism
Content-free article from Xinhua. Oddly, this doesn’t seem to be covered at all by Singapore media.
SINGAPORE, April 25 (Xinhua) — Singapore’s Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew met with visiting Chinese State Councilor Liu Yandong here on Saturday.
During the meeting, Liu said that China-Singapore relations have developed rapidly, and cooperations in various [...]
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Tags: china, lee kuan yew, liu yandong, singapore
LKY World City Prize
Since a school and one prize apparently isn’t enough, here’s another. One more paving stone on the way to Lee Kuan Yew Int’l Airport? Straits Times:
WHAT does it take to become a world-class city?
Innovative planning projects, policies and solutions that show foresight and good governance, it seems.
These are the qualities that [...]
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Tags: lee kuan yew, prize, world city
This just may be the first time that the question of what will happen to Singapore after LKY’s death, the very reason this site was founded, has been discussed not only in an academic forum, but in Singapore’s government-controlled media. The Online Citizen offers the best coverage:
Firstly, whether it is legitimate to pose the question [...]
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Tags: lee kuan yew, people's action party, succession
Lee Kuan Yew in Vietnam
Lee Kuan Yew makes a five-day official visit to Vietnam. Nothing but pre-scripted photo ops and platitudes, it seems. Straits Times:
HANOI: Vietnam is one of the most promising Asean countries in the long term and Singapore can keep a win-win bilateral relationship with it by sharing its expertise, said Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew yesterday.
Official [...]
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Tags: lee kuan yew, state visit, vietnam
Lee Kuan Yew on a favorite theme, immigration. Channel NewsAsia, with video:
Speaking at the “Making Singapore Home” seminar, Minister Mentor Lee said inter-mixing new immigrants with Singaporeans is important and both sides should make the effort.
He said: “I think families should begin to adopt new families coming here. Invite them to your homes, have food, [...]
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Tags: immigration, lee kuan yew, singapore
S’pore’s meritocratic edge
Lee Kuan Yew gives a standard-issue lecture at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Diplomatic Academy. Straits Times:
MINISTER Mentor Lee Kuan Yew has urged Singaporeans not to delude themselves that they are a part of the First World in South-east Asia.
Singapore is situated in a region with ’special features’ which makes it particularly vulnerable, [...]
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Tags: asean, diplomacy, lee kuan yew, meritocracy
S’pore congratulates Najib
Lee Kuan Yew (or at least his ghostwriter) is delighted to see another dynastic succession in a nominal democracy. Straits Times:
Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew said of Datuk Seri Najib’s appointment: ‘Your father, Malaysia’s second Prime Minister, held the office with great distinction. He would have been very proud of you, were he still [...]
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Tags: lee kuan yew, Malaysia, najib razak, succession
