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  • 35 1 TODAY TODAYONLI NE .COM WE SET YOU THINKING yVI bdiaCorp MONDAY, 23 MARCH 2015 MCI (P) 046/06/2014 TODAY TODAYONLI NE .COM WE SET YOU THINKING /A=D!ACORP MONDAY, 23 MARCH 2015 SPECIAL EDITION MCI (P) 088/09/2014
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  • 797 1 IMF, ADB back Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank as US opposition falters 35 OR MORE COUNTRIES COULD JOIN AIIB BY THIS MONTH: INTERIM CHIEF AGENCIES BEIJING —China received critical support from the International Monetary Forum (IMF) and Asian Development Bank (ADB) yesterday for its goal of
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  • 763 1  -  TAN WEIZHEN weizhen@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE As former Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew’s health worsened, thousands of Singaporeans continued to make their way to Singapore General Hospital (SGH), as well as various well-wishers’ corners set up at community centres over the weekend, to
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    • 44 1 WOULD FATHERS TAKING ON MORE CAREGIVING AND HOUSEHOLD RE SPONSIBILITIE SHAVE APOSITIVE SOCIAL IMPACT? COM M E NT&ANALYSIS 12 File today at myTax.iras.gov.sg Visit www.iras.gov.sg for more. INLAND REVENUE AUTHORITY OF SINGAPORE HOT NEWS 6 PUB protects desalination plants from algae in sea water
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  • hot news
    • 633 2 Party calls for UMNO to spell out stance on controversial Islamic criminal law P.M. NAJIB EXPECTED TO ANNOUNCE POSITION IN FEW DAYS AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR Initially coy over its opposition ally’s plan to adopt hudud, or Islamic criminal law, in Kelantan,
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    • 435 2 AGENCIES JOHOR BARU Malaysia’s southern state of Johor is preparing for its first coronation ceremony in 55 years. Sultan Ibrahim Sultan Iskandar will be crowned as ruler of the state in a uniquely Johorean ceremony influenced by a mix of Islamic, Malay and
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    • 634 4 ABE, INDONESIAN LEADER TO SIGN SECURITY PACT KYODO NEWS TOKYO —Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo began a four-day official visit to Japan yesterday evening, a trip that Japanese officials hope will strengthen the strategic partnership between the two major democracies and oceanic
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    • 661 6  -  WATER AGENCY HAD NOTICED SLIGHT INCREASE IN ALGAE LEVELS IN SEAWATER AROUND THE AREA SIAU MING EN siaumingen@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE With the drier weather conditions of late, national water agency PUB has for the first time installed silt curtains at the waters off Tu-
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    • 801 8  -  Singaporeans from all walks of life and all ages recall Mr Lee’s role in building the country SOME CAME WITH THEIR CHILDREN TO SHARE A SLICE OF HISTORY XUE JIANYUE xuejianyue@mediacorp.com.sg with pneumonia. ADDITIONAL REPORTing bytan weizhen SINGAPORE His children, aged eight,
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    • 85 10 TALKING pOfmr t k n: N i i •m SHARE YOUR VIEWS i voices@mediacorp.com.sg facebook.com/TalkingPoint m Tweet us (atelltp Talking Point 'Live': Call 6691 0028 on Tuesdays 9:30pm-10:30pm Too much homework and tuition? Are students still overloaded with homework? Parents are also spending more on tuition S$1.1 billion a year.
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  • comment&analysis
    • 882 12  -  DOING SO COULD REDUCE STRESS WOMEN FACE, LEAD TOWARDS A FAIRER SOCIETY LOH SOON HOW Singapore has a narrow gender gap in education, health and economic participation, but it is fair to say that the traditional division of labour within the family still
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    • 894 13  -  E M I S S ION S G ROWTH LI N K CAN BE BROK E N GEOFFREY LEAN Geoffrey Lean is Britain’s longestserving environmental correspondent, having pioneered reporting on the subject almost 40 years ago. THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Perhaps I
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  • voices
    • 318 16  -  FROM PAUL CHAN POH HOI I refer to the report that Dubai-based conglomerate Al-Futtaim Group will close two John Little stores and a Marks Spencer outlet in the months ahead (“S’pore’s retail sector ‘unsustainable, with too many malls’”, March 18). Robinsons closed its
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    • 346 16  -  FROM WONG BOON HONG I read with concern the reports “S’pore’s retail sector ‘unsustainable, with too many malls’” and “Trouble ahead for stores as e-shopping bug bites” (March 18 and March 21). Despite the economies of scale, prices in local stores cannot compete
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    • 348 17  -  FROM HENC ZHAO WENG It is heartening to read that more people are using public transport. What would be ideal is if people can own cars to serve their ad hoc needs, but use public transport for their daily commute. Every day that a car
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    • 289 17  -  FROM DANIEL CHAN WAI PIEW Sim Lim Square has earnt itself a bad reputation because of recent reports of unscrupulous behaviour of some businesses there and this has had a visible effect on the crowd size. During my past visits, the lifts
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  • singapore
    • 533 18  -  REJUVENATION BRINGS COMMUNITY CLOSER TO WATER’S EDGE XUE JIANYUE xuejianyue@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Two revitalised rivers in eastern Singapore, Sungei Api Api and Sungei Tampines, were officially opened by Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean yesterday as part of World Water Day. Given a
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    • 530 19 How do you talk to your children about the facts of life? Start by paying careful attention to them BROUGHT TO YOU BY begin to spend more time with their friends.PRODUCED BY THE TODAY SPECIAL PROJECTS TEAM It’s understandable for parents to be uncertain about how
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    • 230 19 Part and parcel of growing up It’s normal for your teenage children to develop feelings for people they fancy, so be prepared to talk to them about dating. It is important to be open and respectful of their feelings as you guide them through
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    • 245 20 PARTICULATE MATTER ACCUMULATED UNDER LIGHT WIND CONDITIONS, SAYS NEA SINGAPORE —Hazy conditions persisted over the weekend, although the situation was improved from Friday, when the three-hour Pollutant Standards Index (PSI) reading crossed the 100 threshold. The three-hour PSI rose to a reading of 77
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    • 342 20 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE —About 1,500 low-income residents of Sembawang GRC are set to benefit from a community-driven project covering all aspects of eye care, including free eye screenings, spectacles and cataract surgeries. The SPECtacular Experience Sembawang initiative, organised by the People’s
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    • 144 20 n jcu.singapore.fanpage jjj jcusingaporevideo @jcu_singapore 0 jcusingapore www.jcu.edu.sg The JCU MBA program has given me confidence to make strategic business decisions, to take on top management responsibilities. n Daniel Quek Vice President of Group Corporate Affairs Investor Relations Graduate of Master of Business Administration Course Commencement Date: 4 July 2015
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    • 85 21 J 1 THE ALL-NEW T MORNING AGENDA r V Keith de Souza Bharati Jagdish Bringing you a brand new line-up, for the latest in news, current affairs, lifestyle, business, health and more. The English radio station that gives you MORE THAN NEWS. LATENIGHT LINEUP William Xavier VIEWPOINTS V Andre Ahchak
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  • china&india
    • 965 22 Chinese officials refuse to speculate on leader’s absence from military parade, which will highlight nations close ties RELATIONSHIP BUILT ON SOLID TRUST, SAYS ANALYST FINANCIAL TIMES ISLAMABAD —China’s President Xi Jinping will be conspicuous by his absence from a national military parade in Pakistan
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    • 685 23 Print media much more accessible as about 80% of country lacks Internet access AP NEW DELHI —Young office worker Rewatiraman Shukla, who lives in a slum on New Delhi’s outskirts, cannot remember a time when his family did not have a newspaper delivered to
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  • world
    • 759 24 THE NUMBER OF US CITIZENS JOINING THE MILITANTS IS SMALL BUT THE REASONS ARE UNPREDICTABLE THE NEW YORK TIMES MINNEAPOLIS Reading back over Abdi Nur’s Twitter feed, his chilling progression from the basketball courts of South Minneapolis to the battlefields of Syria
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    • 580 25 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER KOTA KINABALU Frustration over what is perceived to be the government’s refusal to review and honour the Malaysia Agreement of1963 is slowly coming to a boil in Sabah. For a long time, condemning Putrajaya over the alleged
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  • technology
    • 674 28  -  SMARTPHONE REVIEW: YOTAPHONE 2 KHAIRUL AMRI khairulamri@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE It is arguably among the most interesting smartphones in the market. The YotaPhone 2 functions both as a smartphone and an e-read-er, complete with an e-ink display on the back of the phone. When the first
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  • sports sports
    • 731 29  -  REPUBLIC CAN’T AFFORD SLIP-UPS AT SEA GAMES: COACH ADELENE WONG adelenewong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —The times were generally not as fast as he had expected, but Singapore head coach Sergio Lopez felt the national swim team’s performance at the Singapura Finance Singapore National Age-Group (SNAG)
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    • 728 29  -  FASTER TIMES NEEDED FOR SEA GAMES: COACH ADELENE WONG adelenewong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The times were generally not as fast as he had expected, but Singapore head coach Sergio Lopez felt the national swim team’s performance at the Singapura Finance Singapore National Age-Group (SNAG) Championships
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    • 454 29 AGENCIES LIVERPOOL —Steven Gerrard was sent off less than a minute after coming on, as Manchester United beat Liverpool 2-1 yesterday in their Premier League clash with two goals from Juan Mata. The 34-year-old Gerrard got a straight red card for stamping
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    • 449 29 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON Steven Gerrard appeared on television straight after Liverpool’s 2-1 defeat at home to Manchester United yesterday to apologise for being sent off just seconds after coming on as a substitute. Gerrard was labelled “stupid” by Gary Neville when he was
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    • 636 30 FIFA presidential candidate questions timing of announcement of qualifying slots and election AP ZURICH FIFA presidential candidate Prince Ali bin Hussein claims incumbent Sepp Blatter is playing politics with a key World Cup decision. FIFA’s executive committee will give each continent its 2018 World Cup
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    • 394 30  -  ADELENE WONG adelenewong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE If he keeps up his current form, Singapore national water skier Mark Leong could well be a gold medal contender at the South-east Asian (SEA) Games in June this year. The 16-year-old won the men’s slalom
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    • 102 31 More than 1,000 people took part in the Blind Run category at the inaugural Runninghour 2015: Run So Others Can at The Promontory@ Marina Bay yesterday. The event also set a record for the largest blindfolded mass run, surpassing the previous mark of 308
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    • 732 31  - MOURINHO VALUES WATCHES AND HAS TIME ON HIS SIDE UPON WINNING A TROPHY, HE TAKES TIMEPIECE FROM HIS WRIST AND DOESN’T WEAR IT AGAIN JASON BURT sports@mediacorp.com.sg Jason Burt is the Daily Telegraph’s deputy football correspondent. THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Jose Mourinho has a ritual that he adheres to at the
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    • Article, Illustration
      377 32  -  NASH TO RETIRE AGENCIES Steve Nash has announced his retirement, bringing the curtain down on an illustrious 19-year career in NBA. The 41-year-old, who is regarded as one of basketball’s greatest point guards, revealed this in a letter published on The Players’ Tribune website, said ESPN. “The greatest
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    • 523 32 Should he be given the all-clear, he will fly to KL, most likely on Tuesday HE NEEDS TO SEE CAMBRIDGE DOCTORS, TAKE MEDICAL EXAM AT SEPANG AND FIA’S ‘IMPACT TEST’ THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON —Fernando Alonso was scheduled to be
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  • T TODAY
    • Article, Illustration
      1010 33  -  RAINI YNG ON LOWING DOWNAN OTHER LESS NS L ARNT IN HER15-YEAR CAREER HON JING YI honjingyi@mediacorp.com.sg Rainie Yang is known for several things. These include her saccharine Mandopop ballads such as Ambiguous Love, Ideal Lover and Allergy; her highly popular television series, including Hi My Sweetheart,
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    • culture&lifestyle
      • Article, Illustration
        565 36  -  1D splitting up? A Take That fan remembers those days EXIT MUSIC BRYONY GORDON features@mediacorp.com.sg THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON At moments like this, I try not to think back to those dark, miserable days in my mid-teens. I try not to think about my mother, anxiety etched
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  • Page 38 Miscellaneous
    • 244 38 6.00AM Morning Agenda With Bharati Jagdish And Keith De Souza 10.00 Viewpoints With Howie Lim And Andre Ahchak 2.00PM The Culture Cafe With Angela Lim And Daphne Lim 6.00 Evening Digest With Michelle Martin And Daniel Martin 9.00 LateNite Lineup With William Xavier 6.00AM The Bright Side With Sonia Chew
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  • Page 39 Miscellaneous
    • 1167 39 CHANNEL tellchannel5@mediacorp.com.sg CHANNEL tellchannel8@mediacorp.com.sg 6.00AM Super Why II 6.30 Everything’s Rosie 7.00 Milly, Molly 7.30 Driver Dan’s Story Train II 8.00 Mouk 8.30 The Hive 9.00 The Dr Oz Show V (HD) 10.00 JML TV Home Shopping (Paid Presentation) 11.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show XII (HD) NOON Martha Stewart’s Cooking
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    • 36 1 1 9 2 3 2 0 1 5 Lee Kuan Yew Architect of modern Singapore As for me, I have done what I had wanted to do, to the best of my ability. I am satisfied.
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  • REMEMBERING LEE KUAN YEW
    • 4426 2  -  A nation led by PMLee Hsien Loong, mourns ‘the first of our founding fathers is no more’ BY CARL SKADIAN Deputy Editor and LOH CHEE KONG Associate Editor Mr Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s visionary founding Prime Minister and architect of the country’s rise from
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    • 785 6 “On behalf of the people of Singapore, I would like to convey my most heartfelt condolences to you and your family on the passing of your dear father, Mr Lee Kuan Yew. Mr Lee dedicated his entire life to Singapore
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    • 267 7 “I am deeply saddened to tell you that Mr Lee Kuan Yew passed away peacefully this morning at the Singapore General Hospital... The first of our founding fathers is no more. He inspired us, gave us courage, kept us together,
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    • 659 7 The Republic’s leaders paid tribute on social media to Mr Lee Kuan Yew, with Emeritus Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong, who succeeded Mr Lee as Prime Minister in 1990, leading the tributes. Mr Goh wrote on Facebook: “My tears welled up as
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    • 273 7 The Prime Minister has declared a period of National Mourning from March 23 to March 29. As a mark of respect to the late Mr Lee Kuan Yew, the State flags on all Government buildings will be flown at half-mast from today to Sunday. A
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    • 774 8 Describing Mr Lee Kuan Yew as giant figure and paying tribute to his influence on the world stage, past and present world leaders mourned Mr Lee’s death this morning. United States President Barack Obama said he was deeply saddened by the news. He
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    • 781 8 Even before day broke, Singaporeans began expressing their gratitude and respect for the late Mr Lee Kuan Yew, following the news of his passing early this morning. Minutes after a statement appeared on Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s Facebook
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    • 4754 9  -  True to his word, Singapore remained Mr Lee Kuan Yew’s concern till the end of his life TEO XUANWEI When he breathed his last early this morning, the Republic’s first Prime Minister had also been Tanjong Pagar’s Member of Parliament for
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    • 1704 12 ‘Our strategy was to make Singapore a First World oasis in a Third World region The singular motif in Mr Lee Kuan Yew’s blueprint for this unlikely city-state’s success was an unrelenting drive to be outstanding and the visionary knew the most dramatic display of this,
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    • 506 13 ‘National Service would bring political and social benefits’ With the impending British withdrawal, Singapore needed to build a Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) from scratch to avoid being cowed and intimidated by its larger neighbours. Mr Lee Kuan Yew assigned this responsibility to Dr Goh Keng Swee,
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    • 2005 14 ‘Live with the world as it is, not as we wish it should be’ He was a man unafraid to challenge the popular ideologies of the day; he had no truck with dogma. Right up to the end of his life, Mr Lee Kuan Yew believed in
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    • 238 15 Said Mr Lee: If I have to choose one word to explain why Singapore succeeded, it is ‘confidence’. This was what made foreign investors site their factories and refineries here.” It was not just the infrastructural developments and development policies pursued by Mr Lee and his team,
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    • 1111 16  -  ‘Everyone should learn English and their native language is to become the second one.’ TEO XUANWEI Few might have realised the significance at that time, but in making English Singapore’s lingua franca, a decision he made within only a few weeks of separation from Malaysia in
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    • 1384 17 (2nd Edition) ‘This is not a country that belongs to any single community: It belongs to all of us.’ He was the man who wove multicultur alism into the very DNA of Singapore, in the conviction that a small nation could not be divided against itself and continue
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    • 2304 18 Team S’pore strong ministers, shared goals ‘The single decisive factor that made for Singapore’s development TEOXUANWEI The Singapore Story clearly did not come down to Mr Lee Kuan Yew alone. As he acknowledged: “I was fortunate to have had a strong team of ministers who shared a common vision. They
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    • 2073 20 ‘This lesson will never be forgotten’ Over his lifetime, Mr Lee Kuan Yew had to sing four national anthems: British, Japanese, Malaysian and finally Singaporean. This reflected the progression and momentous events of his life that shaped him into the leader he became.
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    • 1952 22 ‘In my bag I have a hatchet, and a very sharp one’ When journalist Dennis Bloodworth in 1989 described Mr Lee Kuan Yew as “bloody-minded and ruthless with his adversaries. He stomps them into the ground”, he was using metaphors no less graphic and remorseless
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    • 1682 24 ‘Dominance of the public platform was my strength’ He did not crave to be popular; rather, Mr Lee Kuan Yew sought to persuade people to see his point of view. A forceful orator in part due to his legal training, his ability to sway his listeners contributed
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    • 1891 26  -  ‘My most important job was to get a team that could carry on the work TEO XUANWEI While the obsession of many political leaders especially those of new nationstates —was with holding on to power for as long as possible, Mr Lee Kuan
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    • 1223 28 ‘We would not have made economic progress if we had not intervened on very personal matters’ Mr Lee Kuan Yew did not seek to remake only Singapore; he wanted to remake Singaporeans too. His government’s social engineering efforts ranged from changing social habits that
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    • 2378 29  -  Mr Lee built close ties with both Asian and Western leaders who valued his unique insights SIMON TAY AND DENYSE YEO In 1967, when Singapore was two years independent and he was a young Premier of only 44, areport described Mr Lee Kuan Yew
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    • 359 30 Mr Lee Kuan Yew’s candid views on democracy and development were often cited and criticised by international media, particularly those from the West. He was seen as the main proponent of the “Asian values” debate, as it was dubbed in the 1980s and 1990s. These
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    • 1403 31  -  Mr Lee played a vital part in Beijing’s transformations and in building bilateral ties ZHENG YONGNIAN Zheng Yongnian is professor and director of East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore. The relationship between China, one of the largest countries in the world, and Singapore, a
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    • 1102 32  -  Mr Lee was seen as a vital interpreter of events in Asia by successive American Presidents ONG KENG YONG Ong Keng Yong is Executive Deputy Chairman of the S Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Nanyang Technological University. This piece was written in his
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    • 1482 33 Ties between Malaysia and Singapore have been marked by their share of ups and downs The Republic’s often tumultuous relationship with its neighbour across the Causeway during Mr Lee Kuan Yew’s tenure as Prime Minister was often attributed to his personal relationship with Malaysia’s leaders.
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    • 573 34  -  Mr Lee had a good relationship with Suharto but also sought to better understand Jakarta in the post-strongman era PUSHPANATHAN SUNDRAM AND SIMON TAY Pushpanathan Sundram is former deputy secretary-general of ASEAN for ASEAN Economic Community, managing director at EAS Strategic Advice, Asia and senior research
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    • 1069 35 The region al grouping helped buttress solidarity while maintaining a balance of power PUSHPANATHAN SUNDRAM AND SIMON TAY Four decades ago, Indonesia, together with Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand and Singapore, established the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or ASEAN, at a time when the region wasin
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    • 1714 36 ‘Without her, I would be a different man, with a different life.’ She was his closest friend, his “tower of strength”, for more than three-quarters of his life the woman who got his attention when she bested him in school, who ran their household and
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    • 985 37 ‘I’ve got three children I’m very proud of.’ Away from the public eye, Mr Lee Kuan Yew was an “Eastern” father who, while not ostentatious about showing love and affection, made it evident to his family. His family was his greatest personal achievement, he once said: I’ve
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    • 5025 38 ‘He is a father a father of the nation’ In this 2012 interview PM Lee Hsien Loong shares his thoughts on his father. Prime Minister, how would you describe Mr Lee Kuan Yew as a father to you? What do you remember most about him as a child growing up?
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    • 1897 40 DrLeeSuan Yew shares some insights on his more serious, studious eldest brother. What was it like growing up with Mr Lee? Dr Lee Suan Yew: I could only remember the time during the war, when I was about nine, he was about
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    • 3532 41 Education Minister Heng Swee Keat recounts his observations of Mr Lee as the leader’s former Principal Private Secretary Can you describe your first meeting with Mr Lee? Mr Heng Swee Keat: My very first meeting was when he interviewed me for the position of
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    • 1089 43 Mr Lee Hsien Yang on growing up with Mr Lee Kuan Yew and how he sometimes got his way. In what areas of your life was your father most involved in? MrLeeHsien Yang: Well, Iguess he was always busy with his work. And
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    • 154 3 m Lee Kuan Yew Age: 91 Passed away peacefully on 23/03/2015 Dearly missed and fondly remembered by Mdm Kwa Geok Choo (deceased) Children Spouses; Lee Hsien Loong Wong Ming Yang (deceased) Ho Ching Lee Wei Ling Lee Hsien Yang Lim Suet Fern Grandchildren: Li Xiuqi Li Yipeng Li Hongyi Li
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