Guards lower the national flag to half-mast at the Istana after the passing of former prime minister Lee Kuan Yew in Singapore. Photo: Lee Hsien Loong's Facebook
Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore's first prime minister, died on Monday aged 91, triggering a flood of tributes to the man who oversaw the tiny city-state's rapid rise from a British colonial backwater to a global trade and financial centre.
