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Lee Kuan Yew GCMG CH SPMJ DK (born Harry Lee Kuan Yew; 16 September 1923 – 23 March 2015), often referred to by his initials LKY, was a Singaporean statesman and lawyer who served as the first Prime Minister of Singapore from 1959 to 1990, and Secretary-General of the People's Action Party from 1954 to 1992. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Tanjong Pagar from 1955 until his death in 2015.
Jun 5, 2024 · Lee Kuan Yew (born September 16, 1923, Singapore—died March 23, 2015, Singapore) was a politician and lawyer who was prime minister of Singapore from 1959 to 1990. During his long rule, Singapore became the most-prosperous country in Southeast Asia. Lee was born into a Chinese family that had been established in Singapore since the 19th ...
Sep 15, 2023 · What were the values, philosophies and ideas that defined Mr Lee Kuan Yew’s leadership? From defending hard choices to inspiring citizens, the late founding ...
Mar 22, 2015 · Lee Kuan Yew, who was sometimes known by his English name, Harry Lee, was born in Singapore on Sept. 16, 1923, to a fourth-generation, middle-class Chinese family.
Mar 22, 2015 · Lee Kuan Yew was born on 16 September 1923 in Singapore, the son of third-generation Chinese immigrants. His upbringing had a strong British influence and his grandfather dubbed him Harry Lee, a ...
Mar 23, 2015 · SINGAPORE (AP) — Lee Kuan Yew, the founder of modern Singapore who was both feared for his authoritarian tactics and admired worldwide for turning the city-state into one of the world's richest nations while in power for 31 years, died Monday. He was 91. Lee was admitted to Singapore General Hospital on Feb. 5 for severe pneumonia and was ...
Lee Kuan Yew was born in Singapore in 1923. He was educated at Raffles College, Singapore and Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, England. He was called to the Bar, Middle Temple, London, in 1950 and practised law in Singapore. He became advisor to several trade unions. In 1954, he was a founder of the People's Action Party and was Secretary General up to 1992.
Mar 22, 2015 · Lee Kuan Yew, the statesman who transformed Singapore from a small port city into a wealthy global hub, has died at the age of 91. The city-state's prime minister for 31 years, he was widely ...
Jan 24, 2016 · SINGAPORE - Singapore's founding Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew died at the Singapore General Hospital on Monday at the age of 91. Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has declared a seven-day period of ...
Mar 23, 2015 · For Lee Kuan Yew, lifting the tiny nation-state of Singapore into a world-class city took single minded, even ruthless determination and a deep involvement of the state in the smallest matters.
Mar 22, 2015 · Lee Kuan Yew, the founder and patriarch of modern Singapore who has died at the age of 91, was one of postwar Asia’s most revered and controversial politicians and one of its last remaining ...
Mar 24, 2015 · Mr Lee Kuan Yew had taken a personal interest in the process. But when he spoke to the Singapore Air Transport Workers' Union on the eve of SIA's formation, there was no nationalistic cheerleading.
Mar 23, 2015 · 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 ...
May 5, 2015 · Lee Kuan Yew, the former Prime Minister of Singapore, is interviewed by Harvard Kennedy School professors David Gergen, Ron Heifetz, Dean Williams, and John ...
Jan 21, 2016 · It was tentatively titled Lee Kuan Yew: What Keeps Him Awake At Night. I had wanted to do it after one discussion with him in early 2002 when he spoke forcefully about the threat of global ...
Mar 22, 2015 · The founder of Singapore died on March 23rd, aged 91. Mar 22nd 2015. THERE was no vainglory in the title of the first volume of Lee Kuan Yew’s memoirs: “The Singapore Story”. Few leaders ...
Mar 22, 2015 · Harry Lee Kuan Yew was born Sept. 16, 1923, in Singapore, then a British colony, where his great-grandfather had emigrated from China’s Guangdong province in 1862. His father, Lee Chin Koon, was ...
Mar 24, 2015 · Lee Kuan Yew performed a miracle transforming Singapore from one of the poorest countries in the world in the 1960s to being among the most advanced today. His main contribution, and the key to ...
Lee Kuan Yew, (born Sept. 16, 1923, Singapore—died March 23, 2015, Singapore), Prime minister of Singapore (1959–90). Born to a wealthy Chinese family, Lee studied at the University of Cambridge and became a lawyer and a socialist. He worked as a legal adviser to labour unions and won election to Singapore’s legislative council in 1955 ...
Mar 22, 2015 · Lee Kuan Yew was born in Singapore on Sept. 16, 1923, to a father he grew distant from and a 16-year-old mother who adored him. The family had lived in the colony for more than half-a-century by ...
Mar 25, 2015 · Mr Lee Kuan Yew was the most famous Singaporean in the world. For nearly half a century, he personified Singapore to the world. During his long tenure as Prime Minister (of independent Singapore ...
On 23 March 2015, Lee Kuan Yew, the founding prime minister of Singapore and co-founder of the People's Action Party, died at the age of 91 at 03:18 Singapore Standard Time (), after having been hospitalised at the Singapore General Hospital with severe pneumonia since 5 February that year. A formal announcement was made on national television and radio by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong at 08:00 that morning.. Many world leaders, governments, international organizations, and individuals ...
5 days ago · X owner and CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, Elon Musk, recently praised Singapore's founding father, Lee Kuan Yew, calling him "brilliant." The compliment came in response to an essay posted by online ...
Mr Lee Kuan Yew, who served as Singapore’s prime minister from 1959 to 1990 and passed away in 2015, was instrumental in shaping modern Singapore. Before Changi Airport opened in 1981, Singapore ...
4 days ago · Elon Musk praised Singapore's first prime minister, calling him a 'brilliant' man. Musk shared a blog lauding Lee Kuan Yew's foresight in developing Changi Airport. Lee's policies rapidly ...
Mar 23, 2015 · Mar 23, 2015, 04:32 AM. SINGAPORE - Singapore's founding father, Mr Lee Kuan Yew, has died, leaving behind the unlikely nation that he and his colleagues fostered and built over five decades as ...
SFPS Lee Kuan Yew Senior Fellowship in Public Service The Senior Fellowship in Public Service Programme (SFPS) is tailored to senior-level leaders in public, private and non-profit sectors. The 5-week-long full-time programme features a rigorous curriculum that focuses on developing leadership and governance competencies of participants, equipping them with the tools to take on challenges at a global level.
