Who’s who in the Lee Kuan Yew family feud
The relatives of Singapore’s late founding leader have descended into publicly fighting over his estate. Here’s how to tell your Lee Hsien Loong from your Lee Hsien Yang
LEE KUAN YEW
The late patriarch of the family died at age 91 in 2015 after a five-decade political career that included a 31-year tenure as independent Singapore’s first prime minister. The Cambridge-educated lawyer is widely credited as the architect of present-day Singapore’s stability and status as one of Asia’s richest places
Lee Kuan Yew formally married Kwa in 1950 after a courtship that began years earlier and which saw them elope while in law school at Cambridge. Kwa went on to helm the firm Lee & Lee and is seen as one of the city state’s most illustrious women. She died in 2010 at the age of 89.
LEE HSIEN LOONG
Lee, 65, entered politics in 1984 after an early military career. He was appointed deputy prime minister to Lee Kuan Yew’s successor Goh Chok Tong in 1990, and took over the country’s top political job in 2004. The father-of-four is a survivor of two bouts of cancer.
Ho Ching, 64, is the chief executive of Singapore state investment firm Temasek Holdings. She married Lee Hsien Loong in 1985, three years after the current premier’s first wife died suddenly of a heart attack.