The Sultan of Brunei Hassanal Bolkiah has conveyed a message of condolence over the passing of Singapore’s first Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew on Monday (Mar 23), announced Brunei’s Office of His Majesty The Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of Brunei Darussalam….
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Dear Prime Minister, On behalf of the Workers’ Party, I wish to convey my deepest condolences to you and your family on the passing of your father, Mr Lee Kuan Yew. Mr Lee was Singapore’s first Prime Minister, heading the…
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And so it’s happened…he’s gone. That’s the news Singapore will wake up to this morning. Mr Lee Kuan Yew died at 3.18am. He was 91. I’m looking at the PMO website done up in black. At other times, I might…
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Ten personal experiences I had with Mr Lee Kuan Yew’s policies as Prime Minister:- 1. Defamation lawsuits – I grew up knowing more of LKY on his defamation lawsuits against his political opponents than anything else. I realised then that…
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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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