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Nov 17, 2021 · Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore, often described as the "shrewdest politician of the region," has been the head of Singapore's Government since 1959, through three general elections.
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 ...
Mar 23, 2015 · Singapore's founding father, Lee Kuan Yew, died this weekend.He's being remembered as the man who transformed Singapore, since taking over in 1959 until leaving power in 1990, from an island with ...
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 ...
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Oct 6, 2021 · Lee Kuan Yew passed away in 2015, but his legacy is still felt to this day in Singapore, the city-state he transformed from a third-world country to a first. During this 30-year tenure as prime minister, LKY forged what is now arguably the strongest, most advanced, and most stable country in Southeast Asia.
Here are 12 things I learned from Lee Kuan Yew about the world and the source of many of our present ills reading Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master’s Insights on China, the United States, and the World. You need a free exchange of ideas. “China will inevitably catch up to the U.S. in absolute GDP.
Lee Kuan Yew, GCMG, CH, SPMJ (born Harry Lee Kuan Yew, 16 September 1923 – 23 March 2015), informally known by his initials LKY, was the first Prime Minister of Singapore, governing for more than three decades from 1959 to 1990, including through Singapore's independence from Malaysia in 1965.
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