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Investment tips from Lee Kuan Yew. Wall Street Journal: Singapore’s founding statesman, Lee Kuan Yew, has long been critical of the profligacy of Western governments, even before the recent debt crises in the U.S. and the Eurozone brought the world’s financial system to its knees. But now he’s singing a slightly different tune and advising [...]
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Lee Kuan Yew’s bilingualism fund is rolling in cash. But why is it only for the Chinese? Today: The Lee Kuan Yew Fund for Bilingualism has swelled to S$113 million in pledges, as the Government yesterday appointed a 16-member board, chaired by Education Minister Heng Swee Keat, to administer it. The board will spearhead initiatives [...]
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More promises, but little actual progress on the long-pending 1965 movie project. Yahoo News: Production for the widely-anticipated film about former prime minister Lee Kuan Yew is likely to start after the middle of this year, says its director Lee Thean-jeen. Speaking to Yahoo! Singapore in an interview on Tuesday, Lee said that the script [...]
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No Lee 3G? AFP: Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, the son of Singapore’s founding father Lee Kuan Yew, said Thursday that he does not think that his children will enter politics. “They will have to decide but if you ask me now I think the odds are not on it,” he told the Davos meeting [...]
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Lee Kuan Yew speaks up by letter. No public appearances lately? Today: I listened to several of the speeches in Parliament on ministerial salaries and read the rest in the newspapers. With a different generation, political attitudes change. But for Singapore, the basic challenge remains unchanged: That unless we have a steady stream of high [...]
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Lee Kuan Yew follows up on his daughter’s disclosure of his condition. Today: Speaking to reporters, who asked for his comments on the news, Mr Lee said: “We learn to adjust. It started two years ago when I was 86. And at 86, many of my contemporaries are either on wheelchairs or aren’t around. So [...]
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Tags: condition, disease, illness, lee kuan yew, neuropathy, sensory peripheral neuropathy
Lee Kuan Yew’s daughter reveals why he has trouble walking. Reuters via WSJ: Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s first and longest-serving prime minister, is fighting a neurological disease that makes it difficult for him to walk, his daughter wrote in a newspaper column on Sunday. Lee Wei Ling, who is also director of Singapore’s National Neuroscience [...]
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Title says it all. Straits Times: A French version of former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew’s memoirs was launched in Paris this week, the latest foreign-language edition of The Singapore Story to be printed and sold. An initial print run of 2,500 copies of the two-volume memoirs, documenting the life of Singapore’s founding father and [...]
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Lee Kuan Yew in hot water over remarks on Islam again — this time for something he said in 2005. AFP via The Australian: SINGAPORE’s outspoken former leader Lee Kuan Yew has denied calling Islam a “venomous religion” after leaked US diplomatic cables set off a furore in the multiracial city-state. One of hundreds of [...]
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Illness Underscores Singapore Transition
Wall Street Journal on the limited impact of Lee Kuan Yew’s illness: News that Singapore’s first and longest-serving Prime Minister, Lee Kuan Yew, is suffering from a neurological problem affecting his ability to walk is the latest reminder of the generational shift under way in the Southeast Asian financial center. The ruling People’s Action Party [...]
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