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Kwa Geok Choo (Chinese: 柯玉芝; pinyin: Kē Yùzhī; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Koa Gio̍k-tsi; 21 December 1920 – 2 October 2010) was a Singaporean lawyer. She was the wife of Lee Kuan Yew, the founding Prime Minister of Singapore and the mother of Lee Hsien Loong, Lee Hsien Yang, and Lee Wei Ling.
Mar 11, 2021 · Kwa Geok Choo was a stellar student who topped the whole of Malaya in the 1936 Senior Cambridge examination. Then 16 years old, she joined a special class at Raffles Institution for students competing for the prestigious Queen’s Scholarship; she was the only girl in the boys’ school.
May 19, 2022 · Written by award-winning author and playwright Ovidia Yu, the 90-minute production follows Kwa from her early life as a young girl, tracing her journey to becoming a top lawyer in Singapore, her...
Mar 26, 2015 · Lee Kuan Yew (left) and his wife, Kwa Geok Choo (centre), attends a dinner at the Foreign Correspondents' Club. Photo: Benson Lo Kwa's health slowly deteriorated after 2003 following a...
Jan 20, 2016 · But nothing seemed to comfort Mr Lee in the days after Madam Kwa Geok Choo, his wife of 63 years, his best friend and confidante, died on Oct 2, 2010. He slept erratically.
Oct 5, 2010 · Madam Kwa passed away peacefully in her home on Saturday, October 2, 2010, at the age of 89. She was the wife of Lee Kuan Yew, the founding father of modern Singapore, and the mother of Lee Hsien Loong, the current prime minister.
Professor James Penner delivered his inaugural lecture as the Kwa Geok Choo Professor of Property Law on 22 March, 2018, at NUS Law’s Bukit Timah Campus.
