Singapore's founding prime minister Lee Kuan Yew received a standing ovation from members of parliament, cabinet ministers and visitors in the public gallery yesterday as he arrived at parliament...
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Lee Kuan Yew has praised President Xi Jinping as a man of "great breadth", comparing him to Nelson Mandela.
The high praise from Lee, Singapore's founding father who turns 90 next month,...
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Singapore’s founding father Lee Kuan Yew has denied his policies were to blame for the city’s low birth rate and said financial handouts for young couples would not solve the problem.
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Any book on Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew is welcome news, especially one from Harvard's Graham Allison. He and Robert Blackwell have teamed up to add Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master's Insights on China...
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Lee, 89, was sent to the Singapore General Hospital after the suspected transient ischemic attack, a condition with stroke-like symptoms that clear within a day, according to the Prime Minister's...
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Sri Lanka's navy yesterday rescued 38 Myanmar nationals who were drifting off the island's east coast, the second batch of boatpeople to be saved in as many weeks.
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Prominent Singapore opposition leader Chee Soon Juan has been discharged from bankruptcy, the government said, after an unprecedented concession by two former prime ministers to whom he owed about...
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It could be that Lee Kuan Yew has mellowed, but it's hard to believe
Political commentator P.N. Balji on the former Singaporean premier and his deal to allow an opposition leader to escape...
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We can only tackle pollution problems with real democracy
The current pollution problem is one of the most compelling reasons for the need for universal suffrage in Hong Kong.
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What lessons did you learn early in life that were useful for leading a company? Not long after arriving in Hong Kong from Shanghai in the late 1940s, my parents decided to send me to the Air...
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Malaysian leaders have hit back at Singaporean Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew, who last week said that Malaysia would be more successful if it treated ethnic Chinese and Indians as equal citizens...
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