It’s over. Seven days of mourning and shared sorrow. Who would have thought that half a million people would wait for hours, whether day or night, whatever the weather, to bid goodbye to someone? Who have thought we would queue…
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The 17-year-old teenager who last week posted a YouTube video in which he celebrated Mr Lee Kuan Yew’s death and criticised his political career was arrested on Sunday. In the video, he challenged Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong to sue…
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The son of Joshua “Ben” Jeyaretnam, Lee Kuan Yew’s biggest political rival who campaigned regularly for free speech and democracy, has called for the Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong to step down and pave the way for a complete…
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There was no vainglory in the title of the first volume of Lee Kuan Yew’s memoirs: “The Singapore Story”. Few leaders have so embodied and dominated their countries: Fidel Castro, perhaps, and Kim Il Sung, in their day. But both of…
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Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong will undergo surgery on Monday for prostate cancer, his office announced on Sunday. He “is expected to recover fully” after the surgery, which will be for the removal of his prostate gland, the Prime…
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