Temasek Review suspects a conspiracy:

It appears that a media blackout has been imposed on PAP supreme leader Lee Kuan Yew who was last heard in public announcing his stepping down from the Singapore cabinet last month.

Since then, the state media had not carry any news about the octagenarian Lee who usually dispenses his ‘pearls of wisdom’ to Singaporeans at least once a week.

Even Lee’s interview with a Japanese newspaper asahi.com on 17 June 2011 in which he implored Japan again to increase its aging population via immigration had not been reported in the press for three days.

Though Lee has sort of taken a ‘backseat’, there are still no major changes in the PAP’s policies other than some cosmetic changes announced in the aftermath of GE 2011 where the PAP lost a GRC for the first time.