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Playing the broken record again. CNA, with video: Former Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew has called for the understanding of Singaporeans towards the government’s decision to continue taking in immigrants. Speaking at a Lunar New Year gathering in his constituency of Tanjong Pagar on Friday, Mr Lee said Singapore’s per capita income is one of [...]
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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 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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More from Lee Kuan Yew in America. AFP: China is in no rush to overtake the United States as the world’s leading power but the two Pacific nations will need to find ways to work together, Singapore’s founding father Lee Kuan Yew said. … In his acceptance speech, Lee said that historically wars have broken [...]
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Lee Kuan Yew on bilingualism. AsiaOne, with video: Singaporeans should not give up on their Chinese language, said former Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew at a dialogue session at World Chinese Entrepreneurs Convention on Friday. He said: “Everybody knows you got to do English, otherwise you won’t get on in Singapore…you won’t get on in [...]
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In case Lee Kuan Yew Watch isn’t enough. Straits Times: A collection of former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew’s speeches, interviews and dialogues from 1950 to 1990 – some of which have not been published before – was launched on Friday. Published by Cengage Learning, the 10-volume collection titled The Papers of Lee Kuan Yew: [...]
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Lee Kuan Yew changes his mind about the election results. CNA: Singapore’s former Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew does not think a more populist form of government would have to emerge as a result of the general election in May. Replying to questions on Singapore’s political scene at the Russia-Singapore Business Forum on Tuesday, Mr [...]
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Lee Kuan Yew raises waves at the Singapore Global Dialogue. Shanghaiist: Singapore’s founding father Lee Kuan Yew, who stepped down from the cabinet this year following the ruling People’s Action Party’s worst showing in post-independence elections, revealed recently that he considered Taiwan to have been independent since 1989. Speaking at the recent Singapore Global Dialogue, [...]
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88 years of Lee Kuan Yew. AsiaOne: On his 88th birthday on Sept 16 , former prime minister Lee Kuan Yew launched the Chinese edition of the best-selling book, Lee Kuan Yew: Hard Truths To Keep Singapore Going. … Speaking in both English and Mandarin at the Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel, Mr Lee stressed the [...]
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Overturning Lee Kuan Yew’s legacy in Singapore
Analysis of Singapore after Lee Kuan Yew, intended for an audience not already familiar with the topic. Foreign Affairs: Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s storied first prime minister, gave his countrymen two things that elude most developing nations: stability and prosperity. Now, a new generation of Singaporeans with little recollection of Lee’s crusade against poverty and [...]
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