Archive for the ‘Commentary’ Category
Gay magazine Fridae reviews local movie The Blue Mansion, suggesting it’s poking fun at the Lee dynasty. Fridae: Finally, a Singapore film with enough guts and good taste to parody founding father Lee Kuan Yew and his family. Or did we get it wrong? … Written by former political journalist Ken Kwek and directed by […]
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Tags: blue mansion, glen goei, lee kuan yew, Movie, parody
Interesting anonymous opinion piece about the NUS dialogue at Temasek Review: The criteria used in selecting the questions were left deliberately unanswered. Needless to say, only politically correct questions found their way to the audience. Is this the kind of “forum” we expect from a supposedly renowned world-class university like NUS? Why can’t the undergraduates […]
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Tags: debate, forum, lee kuan yew, nus dialogue, temasek review
After Temasek Review’s hard-hitting reporting, the Yoong Siew Wah/Men in White flap makes finally it into the mainstream media, but with all mention of Lee Kuan Yew and Yoong’s demand for an apology omitted. Straits Times Channel News Asia See also this interview with Yoong, again courtesy of Temasek Review: Interview with Mr Yoong Siew […]
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Tags: francis seow, internal security department, Interview, isd, men in white, sph, temasek review, yoong siew wah
Here’s something you don’t see everyday: a Singaporean bureaucrat almost, but not quite, threatening to sue Lee Kuan Yew for defamation. Temasek Review: The former director of Singapore’s Internal Security Department (1971 – 1974) Mr Yoong Siew Wah had written on his personal blog expressing outrage at factual inaccuracies in the SPH propagandist book about […]
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Tags: francis seow, internal security department, lee kuan yew, men in white, yoong siew wah
The Temasek Review has a four-part series entitled The PAP in crisis. Part 4 of the series contemplates life after Lee Kuan Yew: Likely scenario in the post-LKY era Some political analysts have predicted that without the elder Lee to hold the fort, factions will eventually emerge in the PAP leading to a repeat of […]
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Tags: crisis, lee kuan yew, pap, people's action party, succession, temasek review
More criticism of the version of history in Men in White. Political detainee Lim Hock Siew on 18.3.1972, via Singapore Rebel: I and hundreds of others were arbitrarily arrested on the 2nd of February, 1963. Many are still in prison. Ever since that day, we were, and are, unjustly and arbitrarily detained in prison without […]
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Tags: lee kuan yew, lim hock siew, operation coldstore
Send in the clowns
Alex Au offers a biting critique of Men in White, the PAP and Lee Kuan Yew himself. Yawning Bread: What has been revealed is that Lee was convinced that the leftwing of the PAP had pro-communist sympathies, and that they could potentially carry the electorate. Lee didn’t feel he was strong enough to stop the […]
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Tags: lee kuan yew, men in white, operation coldstore, pap, rogue government
MM on Singapore’s system
Catherine Lim’s point-black question to Lee Kuan Yew at the recent dialogue is raising some waves. AsiaOne has his answer in full: Catherine Lim: “Sir, in the event of a serious threat of a freak election, would you do the unthinkable, that is, send in the army?” Lee Kuan Yew: “You look at our record […]
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Tags: army, catherine lim, freak election, lee kuan yew
Lee Kuan Yew is again a topic in Malaysian politics. Temasek Review: A columnist at the Malaysian Malay daily Utusan Melayu had lashed out at MM Lee Kuan Yew for “splitting” Singapore from Malaysia during the tumultuous years of 1963 – 1965 when Singapore was part of the Malaysian federation. … Wrote Mr Zainuddin: ‘If […]
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Tags: lee kuan yew, Malaysia, tunku abdul rahman, umno, zainuddin maidin
Lee Kuan Yew Watch 
Chinese netizens dissatisfied over speech by Lee Kuan Yew
Lee’s remarks last week about “balance” between US and China are raising some ripples in China, where they’ve been interpreted as anti-China. China.org.cn: Singapore’s Minister Mentor Mr. Lee Kuan Yew has warned the United States that it risks losing global leadership if it does not remain engaged in Asia to “balance” China’s military and economic […]
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Tags: balance, china, lee kuan yew, singapore, united states, us-asean business council