Illness Underscores Singapore Transition

09Nov11

Wall Street Journal on the limited impact of Lee Kuan Yew’s illness: News that Singapore’s first and longest-serving Prime Minister, Lee Kuan Yew, is suffering from a neurological problem affecting his ability to walk is the latest reminder of the generational shift under way in the Southeast Asian financial center. The ruling People’s Action Party […]

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Disease ‘has not affected my mind, will or resolve’: Lee Kuan Yew

07Nov11

Lee Kuan Yew follows up on his daughter’s disclosure of his condition.   Today: Speaking to reporters, who asked for his comments on the news, Mr Lee said: “We learn to adjust. It started two years ago when I was 86. And at 86, many of my contemporaries are either on wheelchairs or aren’t around. So […]

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Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew Has Neurological Disease

06Nov11

Lee Kuan Yew’s daughter reveals why he has trouble walking.  Reuters via WSJ: Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s first and longest-serving prime minister, is fighting a neurological disease that makes it difficult for him to walk, his daughter wrote in a newspaper column on Sunday. Lee Wei Ling, who is also director of Singapore’s National Neuroscience […]

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