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Lee Kuan Yew to be immortalized on film before he dies. Sina (Chinese) via AsiaOne: Hong Kong actor Tony Leung is set to play the young Lee Kuan Yew in an upcoming movie called ’1965′, reported Sina.com. Heavyweights such as Maggie Cheung and Hollywood actress Julianne Moore are also slated to star in the movie, [...]
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Lee Kuan Yew isn’t retired just yet. ST: THE Prime Minister has decided that the Government will continue to provide staff support to Mr Lee Kuan Yew and Mr Goh Chok Tong. Both men, who stepped down from the Cabinet in May, continue to make significant contributions to Singapore, especially internationally, the Prime Minister’s Office [...]
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Lee Kuan Yew joins his own school. CNA: Mr Lee Kuan Yew is joining the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore as a Distinguished Fellow. A statement said both the school and the university are delighted that there will be opportunities for students, faculty members and researchers to [...]
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Lee Kuan Yew resigns position as chairman of Government of Singapore Investment Corporation, but takes up new post as Chairman Mentor, sorry, Senior Advisor to it. Today: The offer by Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew and Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong to resign from the Cabinet was made after the General Election, Prime Minister Lee [...]
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Lee Kuan Yew replies to questions from the Sunday Times. AsiaOne: ‘It cannot be government as usual. Both former PMs withdrawing from the Government will indicate that it is not government as usual and that the PM can and will revise and revamp his policies going into this new situation,’ he said in an e-mailed [...]
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Lee Kuan Yew interviewed on exchange rates and more. Wall Street Journal: Former Singapore Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew said a stronger local currency could help ease inflation in the fast-growing Asian city-state, even as he warned of a continued weak U.S. dollar–and potentially more inflation–in the U.S. Speaking in a wide-ranging interview with The [...]
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Lee Kuan Yew cries crocodile tears over entering Parliament unopposed again. Straits Times: MINISTER Mentor Lee Kuan Yew said he would have welcomed a contest in Tanjong Pagar GRC, which was returned unopposed on Wednesday. MM Lee said the Singapore Democratic Alliance which was to have fielded a team in the five-member GRC had made [...]
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More Lee Kuan Yew-themed art. AsiaOne: SINCE nobody had done it before, Mr Christopher Pereira decided he would make figurines of Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew. At his model-making workshop in Bras Basah, Mr Pereira, 53, told The New Paper on Sunday: “This has everything to do with art and nothing to do with politics. [...]
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Lee Kuan Yew pops into Taiwan on a low-profile visit — not that he can do any other kind without angering China. Taipei Times: Former Singaporean prime minister Lee Kuan Yew (李光耀) yesterday ended a visit to Taiwan, having met President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) to express his friendship with Taiwan, as well as the friendship [...]
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Ruling People’s Action Party losing some credibility among Singaporeans, survey finds
A professor at NUS does a survey that’s studiously ignored by the government media. AP via Winnipeg Free Press: Fewer Singaporeans consider the ruling People’s Action Party to be credible after the party’s worst election results since independence, a survey showed Friday. … Perhaps the biggest change since the election was the resignation of Lee [...]
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