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Lee Kuan Yew on Charlie Rose
Lee Kuan Yew will be interviewed on Thursday, October 22, 2009 by Charlie Rose. The show airs at 11 PM in most American cities, Monday Oct 26th 7 PM on Bloomberg TV in Asia/Singapore (Starhub Ch 25). This is Lee’s third appearance on the show. UPDATE: Full transcript now available.
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Tags: charlie rose, Interview, lee kuan yew
Indexed video of NUS dialogue
Indexed video coverage of the entire NUS dialogue is now online at AsiaOne: » Influx of foreigners » Do or die! » Social divide in Singapore? » Recycling HDB flats? » Reaching out to the needy » Lower CO2 emissions = slower growth? » Singapore’s national identity at risk? » Youths don’t know what it’s […]
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Tags: carbon emissions, china, dialogue, foreigners, hdb, india, lee kuan yew, legacy, national identity, nus, poverty, social divide
Lee Kuan Yew at NUS. Channel NewsAsia, with video: Singapore Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew said that the growth of twin giants China and India will result in a new world order, even if in the absence of a global financial crisis. … He pointed out that China was growing at between 8 and 11 […]
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Tags: china, india, lee kuan yew, new world order
Lee Kuan Yew is trotted out on an orchestrated tour at upgraded HDB blocks. CNA: Officiating at the completion ceremony of the Lift Upgrading Programme on Saturday was Member of Parliament for Tanjong Pagar GRC and Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew, who was mobbed by residents eager for a handshake and a picture. One lucky […]
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Tags: hdb, lee kuan yew, lift upgrading, rumah tinggi
Lee Kuan Yew polishes his crystal ball. CNA: Political leaders cannot be trained, but must be found and be people with passion, says Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew. … “Many voters now tell us openly – “my family, three of us vote for you but two of us voted against you”. Just to let you […]
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Tags: economic crisis, elections, freak result, lee kuan yew, politics, safeguards, singapore
Lee Kuan Yew makes a rare appearance in Parliament to “demolish” the heretical views of newly minted Nominated MP Viswa Sadasivan. CNA, with video: Speaking in Parliament – which he seldom does – Mr Lee explained that he did not intend to intervene in the parliamentary debate initially. But having read what a Nominated Member […]
Filed under: Speech, Television, Transcript, Video | Closed
Tags: constitution, equality, lee kuan yew, nmp, race, viswa sadasivan
Lee’s first major speech in a while, tackling not the economic crisis, but the challenge of keeping up Singapore’s population (with a few heavy hints about the Chinese needing to breed more) and integrating immigrants. CNA: SINGAPORE: Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew has highlighted two challenges for Singapore to undertake in order to do well […]
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Tags: adaptation, foreign workers, immigration, integration, mandarin, permanent residents
Lee Kuan Yew speaks out after the first half of his Malaysia trip. CNA: Mr Lee said no private investor would go into huge projects like Iskandar Malaysia and the proposed third bridge linking Singapore and Johor unless there is long-term stability in policy. Mr Lee, who kicked off his week-long visit to Malaysia in […]
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Tags: iskandar, lee kuan yew, Malaysia, najib razak, opposition, singapore, third bridge
Near content-free article from CNA, linked here solely for video analysis: SINGAPORE: Singapore is building on its good bilateral ties with Malaysia, following the recent introductory visit by Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak to the Republic. These were further cemented on Tuesday when Singapore’s Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew met Prime Minister Najib and his […]
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Tags: lee kuan yew, Malaysia, muhyiddin yasin, najib razak, state visit
Lee Kuan Yew Watch 
Censors refuse to classify One Nation Under Lee
Singapore avoids the embarrassment of banning One Nation Under Lee by the simple expedient of refusing to classify it. Singapore Rebel: The Board of Film Censors (BFC) has refused to classify One Nation Under Lee (ONUL). The video documentary, directed by visual artist and activist Seelan Palay, was submitted to the authorities in May (see […]
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Tags: board of film censors, one nation under lee, seelan palay