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Praise from Lee Kuan Yew for China. Xinhua: At a dialogue commemorating 30 years of China’s reform and opening up, Lee Kuan Yew, a witness of China’s 30 years of development, said that China is on the right track . “They have taken the smarter route,” he said, “I learn from you, I catch up, […]
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Lee Kuan Yew had a dialogue with Bill Clinton at the Clinton Global Initiative Asia meeting at the Grand Hyatt, Hong Kong today. 4:00 P.M. – 4:30 P.M. A Conversation with Lee Kuan Yew, Minister Mentor and Former Prime Minister of the Republic of Singapore Grand Ballroom Singapore Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew and former […]
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Accept sacrifices, cutbacks
A smiling Lee Kuan Yew advises that “We all have to accept some sacrifices and cutbacks“, makes the odd promise that nobody will fall below the poverty line (too bad if you already did?), and trots out the old line about Singapore being so much better than its neighbors. Straits Times: THE Government will ensure […]
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Tags: economy, financial crisis, lehman, mini-bonds, poverty, recession, singapore
Lee Kuan Yew delivers an 80-minute lecture with Q&A at the International Energy Week. CNA: Singapore’s Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew has said ASEAN will need to cooperate to have a common grid and pipeline, especially in the face of the world’s immense environmental problems. Mr Lee said: “I hope our neighbours also come to […]
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Tags: asean, china, energy, environment, grid, india, pipeline
Lee offers some musings on the current financial crisis at the Singapore Human Capital Summit. Xinhua: The world economy will be restored in three to five years if the banking system does not malfunction, Singapore’s Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew was quoted as saying on Friday. Lee, Singapore’s first prime minister, said no one can […]
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Tags: china, financial crises, human capital summit, india, lee kuan yew
Speaking at the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas, Lee offers not just the usual platitudes, but a few more controversial thoughts as well: Lee, who ruled Singapore for 30 years after the country became an independent republic in 1965, said he had employed the same formula when he converted Singapore into the financial powerhouse it is today. […]
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Tags: china, india, pbd, pravasi bharatiya divas, urbanization
JBJ passed away from a heart attack on Tuesday. While Lee Hsien Loong and Goh Chok Tong managed to grudgingly pay their respects, Lee Kuan Yew’s silence on the issue speaks volumes. AFP: The 82-year-old British-trained lawyer and former MP was the nemesis of Singapore’s iron-fisted founding leader Lee Kuan Yew, 85, whose People’s Action […]
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Lee Kuan Yew is interviewed “recently” by Xinhua. Could this be from back in August, when Lee visited Beijing for the Olympics? The Chinese Pravda makes even the Straits Times seem restrained: SINGAPORE, Sept. 25 (Xinhua) — Singapore’s Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew has praised China for the remarkable achievements over the past three decades, […]
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Tags: china, xinhua
Lee at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, with a veiled argument for trading with Asian countries regardless of how their regimes treat their people. Straits Times: Second, adjust the ‘values-based’ approach to foreign relations. ‘The pursuit of ostensibly ‘moral’ policies towards certain countries in Asia… has become an impediment to substantive engagement,’ […]
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Tags: asian values, iiss, lee kuan yew
MM keeps date with forum
Lee Kuan Yew shows that his well-publicized threat to come back from the grave to keep things running may not be exaggerated. Straits Times: ‘Unlike Kim Jong Il who says he is well but has not appeared, I thought I’d better say hello to you and to your guests and apologise for not being able […]
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Lee Kuan Yew Watch 