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Lee Kuan Yew, Founding Father and First Premier of Singapore, Dies at 91 .
March 22, 2015
Mr Lee kuan Yew,who dominated Singapore politics for more than half a century and transformed the former British outpost into a global trade and finance powerhouse, setting a template for emerging markets around the world, died Monday. He was 91 years old.
Mr. Lee, who led Singapore for 31 years as its founding prime minister, “passed away peacefully at the Singapore General Hospital today at 3:18 a.m.,” the government said. He had been under intensive care for pneumonia since early February.
Singapore declared seven days of national mourning starting Monday, and will hold a state funeral for Mr. Lee on March 29.
Mr. Lee’s core principles—including a focus on clean and efficient government, business-friendly economic policies, and social order—helped attract massive investment and many of the world’s biggest companies to Singapore after he became prime minister in 1959, catapulting living standards to First World status from Third World levels in hardly more than a generation.
Mr. Lee met with President Obama at the White House in October 2009, when he held the special post of minister mentor.Above image.
Mr Lee went to Britain, where he earned a law degree in 1949 from Cambridge University. In 1950 he married Kwa Geok Choo, a fellow law student from Singapore. She died in 2010.
fter serving as prime minister from 1959 to 1990, Mr. Lee was followed by two handpicked successors, Mr Goh Chok Tong and Mr Lee's eldest son, PM Lee Hsien Loong has been prime minister since 2004.
Besides the prime minister, Mr. Lee is survived by his younger son,Mr Lee Hsien Yang, who is the chairman of the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore; a daughter, Dr. Lee Wei Ling, who runs the National Neuroscience Institute; a younger brother,Mr Lee Suan Yew; and a younger sister, Mdm Monica Lee.
Mrs Ho Ching, the wife of the prime minister, is executive director and chief executive of Temasek Holdings, a government holding company.
Looking at Singapore today, Mr Lee Kuan Yew’s tremendous role in Singapore’s economic development is beyond doubt.
~News.
With deepest sympathies
and Condolences to his family .
Thank you for reading,
Take care,
~Wassalam
Greeting.
Lee Kuan Yew, Founding Father and First Premier of Singapore, Dies at 91 .
March 22, 2015
Mr Lee kuan Yew,who dominated Singapore politics for more than half a century and transformed the former British outpost into a global trade and finance powerhouse, setting a template for emerging markets around the world, died Monday. He was 91 years old.
Mr. Lee, who led Singapore for 31 years as its founding prime minister, “passed away peacefully at the Singapore General Hospital today at 3:18 a.m.,” the government said. He had been under intensive care for pneumonia since early February.
Singapore declared seven days of national mourning starting Monday, and will hold a state funeral for Mr. Lee on March 29.
Mr. Lee’s core principles—including a focus on clean and efficient government, business-friendly economic policies, and social order—helped attract massive investment and many of the world’s biggest companies to Singapore after he became prime minister in 1959, catapulting living standards to First World status from Third World levels in hardly more than a generation.
Mr. Lee met with President Obama at the White House in October 2009, when he held the special post of minister mentor.Above image.
Mr Lee went to Britain, where he earned a law degree in 1949 from Cambridge University. In 1950 he married Kwa Geok Choo, a fellow law student from Singapore. She died in 2010.
fter serving as prime minister from 1959 to 1990, Mr. Lee was followed by two handpicked successors, Mr Goh Chok Tong and Mr Lee's eldest son, PM Lee Hsien Loong has been prime minister since 2004.
Besides the prime minister, Mr. Lee is survived by his younger son,Mr Lee Hsien Yang, who is the chairman of the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore; a daughter, Dr. Lee Wei Ling, who runs the National Neuroscience Institute; a younger brother,Mr Lee Suan Yew; and a younger sister, Mdm Monica Lee.
Mrs Ho Ching, the wife of the prime minister, is executive director and chief executive of Temasek Holdings, a government holding company.
Looking at Singapore today, Mr Lee Kuan Yew’s tremendous role in Singapore’s economic development is beyond doubt.
~News.
With deepest sympathies
and Condolences to his family .
Thank you for reading,
Take care,
~Wassalam
