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Ride on S’pore’s reputation
Lee Kuan Yew speaks at the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry‘s Business China anniversary dinner, hyping up Singapore’s Mandarin education. Straits Times: SINGAPOREANS must press on with efforts to equip themselves with skills to do business in China and capitalise on the Republic’s strong reputation there, said Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew on […]
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Tags: bilingualism, china, mandarin, singapore
Lee Kuan Yew is scheduled to appear on CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS on Sunday Sep. 19th at 12 noon GMT, 8 PM Singapore (on Starhub cable). GPS features ex-PM of Singapore Lee Kuan Yew, House Financial Services Cmte Chair Barney Frank (D-MA), author Niall Ferguson, RiverTwice Research pres. Zachary Karabell, Financial Times’ Martin Wolf and […]
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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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Tags: atrial flutter, health, hospital, lee kuan yew, philantrophy
MM Lee pops up at a National Day dinner in Tanjong Pagar and rattles off the usual string of platitudes. Channel NewsAsia, also with video: “We have an economy which is diversified. We have a workforce that we have upgraded year by year, better educated, better able to earn more because we are connected with […]
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Tags: economy, national day, training
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
Speech at Queenstown Stadium on May 25th, and a brief mention of a sore throat and the upcoming CSJ cross-examination. Channel News Asia, with video: MM Lee says giving subsidies will not solve Singapore’s problems “I read many letters in the press urging subsidies for all manner of things — seat belts for school buses, […]
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Tags: channelnewsasia, singapore, sore throat, subsidies, workfare
The Singapore Democrats report: Officials from the Media Development Authority (MDA) barged in on a private screening of a film entitled One Nation Under Lee and demanded that the organisers hand over the DVD. The 45-minute movie is critical narration of how Mr Lee Kuan Yew rode to power championing democracy and then using it […]
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Tags: mda, one nation under lee, sdp, singapore democrats
5:35 interview with Bloomberg TV. Click on “Related Video and Graphics” to the left to launch video player. Analysis Mental acuity: Lee gives a lucid and convincing explanation of why GIC is investing in banks that have made massive losses. Delivery is slow, and there are occasional pauses while he searches for the right word, […]
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