Archive for March, 2010
Lee Kuan Yew in London
Lee Kuan Yew in London. MFA: Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew met Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling in London on 10 March 2010. Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew is currently on a visit to the UK from 9 to 12 March 2010. During his visit, he is scheduled to meet government and business [...]
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Tags: alistair darling, lee kuan yew, peter mandelson, tony blair
AsiaOne puts lingering rumors to rest: Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew will visit the United Kingdom from tomorrow until Friday, March 12. He will meet First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, Lord Peter Mandelson, and Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr Alistair Darling. MM Lee will also meet former Prime [...]
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Tags: alistair darling, lee kuan yew, london, peter mandelson, tony blair, united kingdom
Gopalan Nair confesses to the hoax that left Singapore’s blogsphere atwitter. Singapore Dissident: My last post in this blog, Saturday, March 6, 2010 “Singapore strongman 87 year old Lee Kuan Yew suffers massive heart attack“, was a hoax. But the hoax was deliberately written by me. It was a deliberate attempt to highlight how tenuous [...]
Filed under: Rumour | 1 Comment
Tags: gopalan nair, heart attack, hoax, lee kuan yew, singapore dissident
A rumour is doing the rounds that Lee Kuan Yew suffered a “massive” heart attack late on Friday, March 5 and is presently hospitalized at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Cardiac Unit of the Singapore General Hospital (SGH). Singapore Dissident: Singapore strongman 87 year old Lee Kuan Yew suffers massive heart attack The [...]
Filed under: Rumour | 4 Comments
Tags: gopalan nair, health, heart attack, hoax, icu, lee kuan yew, sgh
New York Times apologizes to Lee Kuan Yew
Once again the New York Times is forced to grovel over an article by Philip Bowring: In 1994, Philip Bowring, a contributor to the International Herald Tribune’s op-ed page, agreed as part of an undertaking with the leaders of the government of Singapore that he would not say or imply that Prime Minister Lee Hsien [...]
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Tags: apology, defamation, international herald tribune, lee kuan yew, nepotism, new york times, philip bowring