Millennials aren’t exactly celebrating his passing. In 2013, The Real Singapore posted an article written by Jeremy Sia, titled “More Young People are Looking Forward to LKY’s Death”. Sia quoted two people in his article, Edmund Tan, an undergraduate, and…
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Watching the reaction to Lee Kuan Yew’s death from overseas has been a surreal and difficult experience. As a Singaporean journalist with the BBC, it’s been a privilege to cover many stories about my country over the years. But here…
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Washington, D.C., is fast becoming an acronym for “Dysfunctional Capital.” Singapore, in contrast, has become the poster child for “the concept of good governance,” to quote the Financial Times’s obituary for the country’s longtime leader, Lee Kuan Yew, who was…
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7.19pm, 29 March 2015 – playground – HDB estate – Choa Chu Kang. My son, 8 years old, is playing with his friends. My mind is elsewhere – Mandai crematorium. LKY. His life ended a week ago. By now, his…
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Over the past week, Hasanji Dhilawala has shed tears for a man he never met. “I am grateful to Lee Kuan Yew for the life he gave me,” said the 86-year-old, who wept in his wheelchair when he finally had…
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