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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.
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.
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...
Today, we take a look at one of the greatest love stories Singapore has ever witnessed – the Lee Kuan Yew and Kwa Geok Choo love story. A 63-year-old tale of love. “Without her, I would be a different man, with a different life, ” Mr. Lee once said.
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...
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.
Feb 14, 2020 · Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s founding Prime Minister, and Kwa Geok Choo, who was his partner in every sense of the word for over five decades.
Oct 2, 2010 · SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The wife of Singapore's first prime minister, Lee Kuan Yew, has died at age 89, the Prime Minister's Office said on Saturday. Kwa Geok Choo, who had been bedridden for over...
Mar 23, 2015 · Madam Kwa Geok Choo and Mr Lee Kuan Yew were often seen as inseparable. But the Singapore public found out just how much she meant to him only when he published his memoirs in 1999 — telling all...
