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Veteran newspaper editor Cheong Yip Seng's new memoir outlines Lee's diplomatic skill with China that earned him Beijing's enduring trust Singapore's founding prime minister Lee Kuan Yew recognised ...
This is the barbarous environment in which Lee Kuan Yew lived between ages 18 and 22. As he stressed, “I learned about power long before Mao Zedong wrote that power came from the barrel of a gun.” ...
Lee Kuan Yew will talk about his country's economic success, as well as the criticism about his government's treatment of its citizens. His new book is called From Third World to First (Harper ...
The second was Lee Kuan Yew. LKY, as he’s often called, was Singapore’s prime minister from 1959 to 1990 and oversaw what some call its economic miracle.
Jon Pelson’s Feb. 6 op-ed “Lee Kuan Yew’s Cane and Trump’s Tariffs” offers “a lesson in deterrence from the founder of modern Singapore.” In the 1980s the prime minister embraced ...
Lee Kuan Yew, the founder of modern Singapore and the creator of the economic miracle there, was a famously strict ruler.Considered by some a “benevolent dictator,” he countenanced no ...
For decades, Lee Kuan Yew’s family appeared to be as orderly as the state he ran. His wife, Kwa Geok Choo, was in charge of the household at 38 Oxley Road, in one of Singapore’s most expensive ...
My father, Lee Kuan Yew, was the founder of Singapore.He guided the nation through its first 31 years with a firm hand as prime minister, pioneering a system of government that some have called ...