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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 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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‘There won’t be another MM’
Son on father. ST: MINISTER Mentor Lee Kuan Yew is ‘unique’ and there will only be one ‘MM’, said Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on Tuesday night. ‘You can give him any title, but he is Mr Lee Kuan Yew, he’s unique,’ PM Lee said at an NUS ministerial forum held at the University Cultural [...]
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MM’s views on Muslims not Govt’s
The Government backpedals on Lee Kuan Yew’s controversial remarks about Muslims. AsiaOne: THE views on Singapore Muslims expressed by Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew in a new book are his personal opinions, and not those of the Government, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said yesterday. … Speaking to the media on the sidelines of a [...]
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The Temasek Review asks a simple question. If you were to ask 10 elderly Singaporeans in the streets randomly who the Prime Minister of Singapore is, chances are quite a number will answer “Lau Lee” in reference to Singapore’s octogenarian leader Lee Kuan Yew. Lee was the first Prime Minister of Singapore from 1959 to [...]
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Facing yet another defeat in Singapore courts, Dow Jones finally gives up its appeal in the FEER defamation case, cuts its losses and agrees to pay damages. Asia Sentinel, including Dow Jones’ own statement: Dow Jones Corporation, the owner of the soon-to- be-defunct Far Eastern Economic Review, has capitulated and agreed to pay US$175,000 in [...]
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The utterly predictable final nail in the coffin for the already defunct Far Eastern Economic Review. Asia Sentinel: As expected, a three-judge appellate panel has upheld a ruling that the Far Eastern Economic Review defamed Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and his father, former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, in a 2006 interview with Chee [...]
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New awards at ceremony
Awards named after Lee Kuan Yew just keep on multiplying. Up next, the Lee Kuan Yew Award for the Best Lee Kuan Yew Award? Straits Times: [Paul Tan] is one of two recipients of the Lee Hsien Loong Award for Special Achievement … The other five award categories were the Lee Kuan Yew Award for [...]
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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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