Such a strange thing is happening in the ether. The normally silent majority seemed to be speaking up. They are thumping those who had hogged the online space with their cutting, unkind comments about anything to do with the Government….
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I understand how some feel about the tributes to Mr Lee Kuan Yew being overwhelming and maybe even overbearing. Speaking for myself, 95% of my newsfeed on Facebook is filled with news of his bereavement, eulogies, and almost “real time”…
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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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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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