Probably no Singaporean besides Lee Kuan Yew has ever been loved, and hated to such a degree. For every comment we’ve seen praising Old Lee, there’s bound to be another wishing he’d burn in hell. We’ve heard of how Old…
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Every once in your lifetime someone moves you in a way that you find difficult to understand , let alone express . I write this in the hope that my children will catch a glimpse into the man they never…
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Former US president Bill Clinton will lead a high-level White House delegation to Singapore to attend the funeral of Mr Lee Kuan Yew this Sunday. The delegation will include the US ambassador to Singapore Kirk Wagar, former US ambassador to…
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On his regular visits to Hong Kong, Mr Lee Kuan Yew observed that when people there failed in business, they blamed themselves or bad luck, picked themselves up and tried again. He wondered how to encourage that entrepreneurial spirit among…
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Before I knew either Mr Lee Kuan Yew or David Marshall, I remember being at a political meeting at the university in 1957 or 1958. I can’t remember the circumstances, but both David and Mr Lee spoke on the future…
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