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Who should dare forget the courage of war heroes Lim Bo Seng and Lieutanant Adnan Saidi? Or the pioneers who showed exemplary character and conviction, which we saw in the likes of Mr Lee Kuan Yew and Dr Toh Chin Chye? Commemorating them is an...
Now that Xi Jinping is visiting the United States as the successor to the throne, people are reprojecting the ardent hopes they had for Hu onto Xi. Will Xi become China's Mikhail Gorbachev or its Boris Yeltsin? Optimism pervades everywhere. Most...
Former Singapore Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew (LKY) smiles as he attends the LKY School of Public Policy 7th anniversary dialogue session in Singapore in this September 14, 2011 file photo. Singapore's founding father Lee, 88, is fighting a rare... View Photo »
There is unity and uniformity of thought at the highest levels of Chinese leaders
Toh cast his vote for Lee and set him into the history books. He left the cabinet in 1981 when he was 60 and as MP in 1988. Since then his name was rarely mentioned in the news. Former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew does not think the current crop of...
NUS says with the exception of graduate courses offered by the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, fees for the incoming AY2012/2013 intake of students for graduate coursework programmes will be adjusted upwards by 8 per cent. The tuition fees for...
THERE are memoirs, autobiographies and other books on Singapore leaders like Mr Lee Kuan Yew, former presidents Wee Kim Wee, Ong Teng Cheong, and S R Nathan, as well as former deputy prime minister Goh Keng Swee. But we have yet to see any book on Dr...
Georges Yeo (R), former Foreign Minister of Singapore and professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School, Kishore Mahbubani (2ndL), Dean and Professor in the Practice of Public Policy of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of... View Photo »
America's advantage is in its diversity of centers of talent
He truly deserves a place in Singapore's history. I have come across memoirs and write-ups of some of our nation's leaders, such as Messrs Lee Kuan Yew, Wee Kim Wee, Ong Teng Cheong, S R Nathan and Goh Keng Swee. However, to date, there is no...
Since 2006, four founding fathers - Dr Toh, Dr Goh Keng Swee, Mr S. Rajaratnam and Mr Lim Kim San - have died. In 2010, Madam Kwa Geok Choo, wife of former prime minister Lee Kuan Yew, died. With Dr Toh's death, only five members of independent...
Lee Kuan Yew, GCMG, CH (Chinese: 李光耀; pinyin: Lǐ Guāngyào; POJ: Lí Kng-iāu; born September 16, 1923; also spelled Lee Kwan-Yew) was the first Prime Minister of the Republic of Singapore from 1959 to 1990. Full Article
Singapore's former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew (3rd L) is driven in a cart during the third practice session of the Singapore F1 Grand Prix at the Marina Bay street circuit in Singapore September 24, 2011.
View Photo »Former Singapore Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew (LKY) waves to the audience before leaving the LKY School of Public Policy 7th anniversary dialogue session in Singapore September 14, 2011.
View Photo »Former Singapore Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew (LKY) attends the LKY School of Public Policy 7th anniversary dialogue session in Singapore September 14, 2011.
View Photo »Former Singapore Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew (LKY) gestures as he speaks during the LKY School of Public Policy 7th anniversary dialogue session in Singapore September 14, 2011.
View Photo »Singapore's founding father Lee Kuan Yew speaks during a dialogue at the 17th International Conference on The Future of Asia in Tokyo Thursday, May 26, 2011. Lee, 87, who was prime minister from 1959 to 1990, announced resignation from his Cabinet position of Minister Mentor earlier...
View Photo »An image of Singapore's founding father Lee Kuan Yew, right on the stage, speaking is displayed on a screen during a dialogue at the 17th International Conference on The Future of Asia in Tokyo Thursday, May 26, 2011. Lee, 87, who was prime minister from 1959 to 1990, announced...
View Photo »Singapore's Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew speaks at the APEC CEO Summit in Singapore, in this November 13, 2009 file photo. Lee, the founding father of modern Singapore, stepped down from active government this weekend after an election campaign that focused on his party's shortcomings,...
View Photo »Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore's minister mentor and former prime minister, waits to receive China's Vice Premier Wang Qishan at the Istana presidential palace in Singapore, in this August 25, 2009 file picture. Lee, the founding father of modern Singapore, stepped down from active government...
View Photo »Singapore's Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew waves to supporters upon his arrival at an election nomination centre in Singapore, in this April 27, 2011 file picture. Lee, the founding father of modern Singapore, stepped down from active government this weekend after an election campaign...
View Photo »Singapore's Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew waves to supporters upon his arrival at an election nomination centre in Singapore in this April 27, 2011 file photo. Lee, the architect of modern Singapore, said on Saturday he was leaving the cabinet, the first time he will not be part of the...
View Photo »Former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew (C) takes his oath during a swearing-in ceremony into cabinet as Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong (L) looks on, in Singapore, in this file photo taken January 25, 1997. Lee and Senior Minster Goh announced on Saturday their decision to retire from Cabinet...
View Photo »Former Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Kuan Yew (L) and Senior Minister Goh Chock Tong are sworn into the new government during the inauguration of the change of leadership in the city state's second leadership change since independence in 1965, at the Istana in Singapore, in this file...
View Photo »Georges Yeo (R), former Foreign Minister of Singapore and professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School, Kishore Mahbubani (2ndL), Dean and Professor in the Practice of Public Policy of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, Tan York Chor (L)...
View Photo »Georges Yeo (R), former Foreign Minister of Singapore and professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School and Kishore Mahbubani (L), Dean and Professor in the Practice of Public Policy of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore pose on October 25, 2011 in...
View Photo »Kishore Mahbubani Dean and Professor in the Practice of Public Policy of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore delivers a speech, on October 25, 2011 in Paris, during the official launch of the French edition of the 'memoirs of Mr Lee Kuan Yew'.
View Photo »Georges Yeo, former Foreign Minister of Singapore and professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School delivers a speech on October 25, 2011 in Paris, during the official launch of the French edition of the 'memoirs of Mr Lee Kuan Yew'. Lee Kuan Yew is a Singaporean statesman, the first Prime...
View Photo »Singapore's Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew waves to supporters upon his arrival at an election nomination centre in Singapore April 27, 2011. Lee, the founder of modern Singapore, was returned unopposed to parliament on Wednesday, but his long-ruling People's Action Party (PAP) faces its...
View Photo »Singapore's Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew (3rd L) and his team speak to their supporters after they were declared winner of the Tanjong Pagar Group Representation Constituency (GRC) at an election nomination centre in Singapore April 27, 2011. Singapore's senior statesman Lee returned to...
View Photo »Singapore Minister mentor Lee Kuan Yew (centre L) waves to his supporters while his daughter Lee Wei Ling (L) looks out at the Nomination centre in Singapore on April 27, 2011. Singapore's founding father Lee Kuan Yew was re-elected to parliament without any contest as the ruling party...
View Photo »Singapore Minister mentor Lee Kuan Yew (C) reacts to his supporters at the Nomination centre in Singapore on April 27, 2011. Singapore's founding father Lee Kuan Yew was re-elected to parliament without any contest as the ruling party braces for a stiff challenge from the opposition...
View Photo »Singapore's Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew (C) is welcomed upon his arrival at an election nomination centre in Singapore April 27, 2011. Singapore's senior statesman Lee returned to parliament unopposed on Wednesday but the ruling People's Action Party (PAP) which he co-founded faces its...
View Photo »Singapore Minister mentor Lee Kuan Yew rgive the victory sign to his supporters upon arriving at the Nomination centre to file his candidancy for Tanjong Pagar ahead of Singapore's May 7 general election on April 27, 2011.
View Photo »Singapore's Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew, center, greets supporters with victory signs at an elections nomination center Wednesday April 27, 2011 in Singapore. Singapore opposition parties will contest the most parliamentary seats since independence in 1965 in general elections next...
View Photo »Singapore Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew (L) talks with Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero during a meeting at the Istana presidential palace in Singapore on April 13, 2011. Prime Minister Zapatero is in Singapore on a two-day working visit.
View Photo »Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum, Atsutoshi Nishida, chairman of the board at Toshiba Corporation, Dominic Barton, worldwide managing director at McKinsey & Company and co-chair of the World Economic Forum on East Asia, Marie Pangestu, Indonesia's...
View Photo »Singapore's former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew (3rd L) is driven in a cart during the third practice session of the Singapore F1 Grand Prix at the Marina Bay street circuit in Singapore September 24, 2011.
View Photo »There is unity and uniformity of thought at the highest levels of Chinese leaders
America's advantage is in its diversity of centers of talent
One thing is for sure: The present (Chinese) system cannot remain unchanged for the next 50 years.
