Archive for the ‘Quotes’ Category
Brief mention in Reuters about the health of Kwa Geok Choo, Lee Kuan Yew’s wife. Lee said his wife Kwa Geok Choo, 87, is in stable condition after suffering two recent strokes. “My wife has been weakened after two strokes in May and in June. She is stable at present,” he said.
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At the Forbes Global CEO conference, Lee Kuan Yew pontificates on Russia and China: There’s no doubt that the world knows that China has come together. But they don’t beat their chests and threaten anybody.’ On Russia, Mr Lee alluded to its recent invasion of Georgia. ‘On the other side, really robust – you’ve got […]
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Tags: asean, china, forbes, russia, social security, straits times
Lee Kuan Yew turns 85 on September 9th, and consented to a Straits Times interview by e-mail. No surprises: “evolve in sync with… our society” being code for “at a pace dictated by the PAP”. In an e-mail response to questions from The Straits Times ahead of his birthday on Tuesday, he adhered to his […]
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The Straits Times attempts to outdo Xinhua in sycophancy, but why only “would” have impressed the world? CHINA’S opening ceremony of the Olympics on Friday was a spectacular and really professional affair which would have impressed the world, Mr Lee Kuan Yew said on Saturday. The Minister Mentor was at the event accompanied by Chinese […]
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Lee Kuan Yew was the guest of honor at the Economic Society of Singapore‘s annual dinner. Channel News Asia reports (with video): Mr Lee said the current team will last for two terms, within which they will have to seek and groom talent with energy and integrity. He said: “The system is there, but the […]
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Tags: bernama, integrity, leadership, succession
Lee Kuan Yew attended the Nomura Asia Equity Forum on Wednesday. From the Straits Times: POLITICAL turmoil in Malaysia and Thailand are ‘severe problems’ which may hurt growth and investment in the markets, Singapore’s Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew said on Wednesday. Malaysia is ‘trapped’ in personal politics amid accusations and counter-accusations among politicians, Mr […]
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Tags: channelnewsasia, decoupling, fertility rates, Malaysia, nomura, straitstimes, thailand, trade
And the Minister Mentor is back with another hyperbolic broadside. Straits Times: ONE freak election result is all it will take to wipe out Singapore’s success in building up the city state, Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew warned last night. This could happen if voters became bored and decided to give the ‘vociferous opposition’ a […]
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Tags: channelnewsasia, freak election result, governance, opposition, straits times
Lee Kuan Yew in Moscow
Lee Kuan Yew goes to Moscow for a meeting of the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO and makes a speech that indirectly praises both himself and Putin. Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, rightly considered to be the father of the Singaporean economic miracle, said: ‘Effective leadership is precisely what will allow private companies operating in emerging […]
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Tags: leadership, moscow, skolkovo
The International Herald Tribune gives a decent (and impartial) summary of the case: Critic confronts Lee in Singapore court With a deeply odd yet revealing quote from Lee: Lee expressed what seemed an extraordinary sense of vulnerability, even to the words of a lone critic, while his antagonist described a compulsion – even a mission […]
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Day 2 of the Chee Soon Juan/SDP defamation trial makes the Oddly Enough column on Reuters: Singapore politicians hurl insults in court “He is near psychopath,” Lee Kuan Yew said of Chee Soon Juan. “I don’t think even Solomon would be able to mediate between a psychopath and sane rational people,” he said, referring to […]
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Lee Kuan Yew Watch 