Archive for September, 2009
Lee Kuan Yew lectures Russia once again. CNA: Mr Lee told business leaders that he found support for the top brass lacking in Russia. He said: “Yes you have top engineers, top scientists, top researchers, grand chess masters, but your middle layer and your bottom layer is not so well maximised, (regarding) their potential.” One [...]
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Tags: education, infrastructure, lee kuan yew, russia, singapore
Lee Kuan Yew in Russia
Virtually content-free news items about Lee Kuan Yew meeting with Russian president Vladimir Putin (ITAR-TASS) and business tycoon Oleg Deripaska (MFA). Lee returns to Singapore today.
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Tags: lee kuan yew, oleg deripaska, vladimir putin
Lee Kuan Yew never hesitates to dole out advice. CNA: Singapore’s Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew has met Russian President Dmitri Medvedev on the third anniversary of the establishment of the Moscow School of Management Skolkovo, Russia’s first business school. Minister Mentor Lee, who is on the school’s advisory board, also addressed students and told [...]
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Tags: dmitri medvedev, lee kuan yew, russia, skolkovo
Lee Kuan Yew in Armenia. Public Radio of Armenia: Singapore’s Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew has arrived in Armenia at the invitation of President Serzh Sargsyan. Lee Kuan Yew headed the Government of Singapore for 31 years as Singapore’s first Prime Minister. Hosting the guest at the President’s Office, President Serzh Sargsyan said: “There are [...]
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Tags: armenia, lee kuan yew, serzh sargsyan
Lee Kuan Yew is 86 years old
The Online Citizen reminds us that Lee Kuan Yew is now 86 years old, and links to an hour-long old interview from back in 2004. You can watch it without interruptions at the Charlie Rose site: An hour with former Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Kuan Yew Transcript at Little Speck.
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Tags: birthday, charlie rose, Interview, lee kuan yew, september 16
On the road again. Prime Minister’s Office: Mr Lee Kuan Yew will visit the UK from Sep 13-17, the Republic of Armenia from Sep 17-19 and the Russian Federation from Sep 19-23. In London, he will meet David Miliband (Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs), Jack Straw (Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for [...]
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Tags: david cameron, david miliband, george osborne, jack straw, lee kuan yew, peter mandelson, serzh sargsyan, skolkovo, tigran sargsyan, united kingdom, william hague
Friends and foes meet
Lee Kuan Yew at the Men in White book launch. Straits Times: IT WAS a historic moment with friends and foes gathered together under the same roof where they last met more than four decades ago – at the Old Parliament House. The occasion was the launch of a new book on the People’s Action [...]
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Tags: lee kuan yew, men in white, operation coldstore, people's action party
More criticism of the version of history in Men in White. Political detainee Lim Hock Siew on 18.3.1972, via Singapore Rebel: I and hundreds of others were arbitrarily arrested on the 2nd of February, 1963. Many are still in prison. Ever since that day, we were, and are, unjustly and arbitrarily detained in prison without [...]
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Tags: lee kuan yew, lim hock siew, operation coldstore
Send in the clowns
Alex Au offers a biting critique of Men in White, the PAP and Lee Kuan Yew himself. Yawning Bread: What has been revealed is that Lee was convinced that the leftwing of the PAP had pro-communist sympathies, and that they could potentially carry the electorate. Lee didn’t feel he was strong enough to stop the [...]
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Tags: lee kuan yew, men in white, operation coldstore, pap, rogue government
The PAP in crisis (Part 4): Likely post-LKY scenario and implications for Singapore
The Temasek Review has a four-part series entitled The PAP in crisis. Part 4 of the series contemplates life after Lee Kuan Yew: Likely scenario in the post-LKY era Some political analysts have predicted that without the elder Lee to hold the fort, factions will eventually emerge in the PAP leading to a repeat of [...]
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Tags: crisis, lee kuan yew, pap, people's action party, succession, temasek review