Archive for October, 2009
MM Lee to visit the US
Lee Kuan Yew is going to the United States next week. Straits Times: MINISTER Mentor Lee Kuan Yew will visit New York and Washington DC from Wednesday to Oct 31, said a statement from the Prime Minister’s Office on Tuesday. In New York, he will have meetings with the Council on Foreign Relations and business [...]
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Tags: ben bernanke, council on foreign relations, lawrence summers, lee kuan yew, robert zoellick, world bank
Lee Kuan Yew at NUS. Channel NewsAsia, with video: Singapore Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew said that the growth of twin giants China and India will result in a new world order, even if in the absence of a global financial crisis. … He pointed out that China was growing at between 8 and 11 [...]
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Tags: china, india, lee kuan yew, new world order
Notices of new posts to Lee Kuan Yew Watch are now syndicated to Twitter: http://twitter.com/leewatch LEEWATCH
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Tags: lee kuan yew, lee kuan yew watch, lky, twitter
Opinion piece by Lee Kuan Yew, syndicated in the Malaysia Insider: Small economies such as Singapore have no alternative but to export and grow, because their domestic markets are too small. After the first quarter, Singapore expected its decline to be -6 per cent to -9 per cent, but in the second quarter exports recovered. [...]
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Tags: economy, fertility rate, immigration, lee kuan yew, recession, singapore
Here’s something you don’t see everyday: a Singaporean bureaucrat almost, but not quite, threatening to sue Lee Kuan Yew for defamation. Temasek Review: The former director of Singapore’s Internal Security Department (1971 – 1974) Mr Yoong Siew Wah had written on his personal blog expressing outrage at factual inaccuracies in the SPH propagandist book about [...]
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Tags: francis seow, internal security department, lee kuan yew, men in white, yoong siew wah
The utterly predictable final nail in the coffin for the already defunct Far Eastern Economic Review. Asia Sentinel: As expected, a three-judge appellate panel has upheld a ruling that the Far Eastern Economic Review defamed Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and his father, former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, in a 2006 interview with Chee [...]
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Tags: far eastern economic review, lee hsien loong, lee kuan yew, procession, singapore democratic party
Lee Kuan Yew is trotted out on an orchestrated tour at upgraded HDB blocks. CNA: Officiating at the completion ceremony of the Lift Upgrading Programme on Saturday was Member of Parliament for Tanjong Pagar GRC and Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew, who was mobbed by residents eager for a handshake and a picture. One lucky [...]
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Tags: hdb, lee kuan yew, lift upgrading, rumah tinggi
Followup: Yoong Siew Wah vs SPH, Lee Kuan Yew
After Temasek Review’s hard-hitting reporting, the Yoong Siew Wah/Men in White flap makes finally it into the mainstream media, but with all mention of Lee Kuan Yew and Yoong’s demand for an apology omitted. Straits Times Channel News Asia See also this interview with Yoong, again courtesy of Temasek Review: Interview with Mr Yoong Siew [...]
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Tags: francis seow, internal security department, Interview, isd, men in white, sph, temasek review, yoong siew wah