Posts Tagged ‘pap’
Reuters via ABS-CBN: They crammed into an art cafe in Singapore and pulled no punches, deriding authoritarian officials who ruled with an “iron fist” and complaining that government ministers with million-dollar salaries were out of touch. One woman, a middle-aged professional, got nods of agreement when she said modern Singapore’s founding father, Lee Kuan Yew, […]
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“Comrade” Lee Kuan Yew and much of the old guard resign from the PAP CEC. PAP: At today’s meeting, the PAP CEC accepted the resignation of six of its members who proposed to step down to facilitate leadership renewal in the party. They are: Mr Lee Kuan Yew Mr Goh Chok Tong Mr Lim Boon […]
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Tags: cec, centrral executive committee, lee kuan yew, pap, people's action party
More from the Singapore Global Dialogue. CNA, with video: Singapore’s former minister mentor Lee Kuan Yew said it is unlikely that Singapore and Malaysia will merge in the future. … “Najib has brought forth a positive view of bilateral relations and the desire to develop southern Johor, the Iskandar region, using Singapore as a kind […]
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Tags: dominance, general elections, lee kuan yew, legacy, Malaysia, merger, opposition, pap, singapore, singapore global dialogue
Another election winds down
It’s presidential election time, and Yawning Bread has an interesting observation: where is Lee Kuan Yew? Probably furious in the attic One person we did not hear from at all through this campaign was Lee Kuan Yew. Had he been muzzled? Or was he more furious with his own PAP and its preferred candidate than […]
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Lee Kuan Yew once again tells people to stick with the PAP. ST: FORMER prime minister Lee Kuan Yew has warned of the dangers of Singapore moving towards a two-party system and electing weak and ineffective governments. The progress made by the country since independence is not cast in stone and would ‘spiral downwards’ with […]
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A professor at NUS does a survey that’s studiously ignored by the government media. AP via Winnipeg Free Press: Fewer Singaporeans consider the ruling People’s Action Party to be credible after the party’s worst election results since independence, a survey showed Friday. … Perhaps the biggest change since the election was the resignation of Lee […]
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Lee Kuan Yew replies to questions from the Sunday Times. AsiaOne: ‘It cannot be government as usual. Both former PMs withdrawing from the Government will indicate that it is not government as usual and that the PM can and will revise and revamp his policies going into this new situation,’ he said in an e-mailed […]
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Tags: cabinet, goh chok tong, lee hsien loong, lee kuan yew, new york times, opposition, pap, resignation
With the opposition gaining seats in the general election, Lee Kuan Yew complains about the ungratefulness of youth. ST: MINISTER Mentor Lee Kuan Yew gave his first – albeit indirect – assessment of the 2011 general election result on Sunday, remarking at a community event in Tanglin Halt that the younger generation ‘does not remember […]
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Lee Kuan Yew cries crocodile tears over entering Parliament unopposed again. Straits Times: MINISTER Mentor Lee Kuan Yew said he would have welcomed a contest in Tanjong Pagar GRC, which was returned unopposed on Wednesday. MM Lee said the Singapore Democratic Alliance which was to have fielded a team in the five-member GRC had made […]
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Lee Kuan Yew Watch 
Singapore after Lee Kuan Yew — Geoff Wade
Geoff Wade opines that Lee’s successor might be George Yeo. Malay Mail: At a time not too far distant, Lee Kuan Yew, the font of all authority, legitimacy, orthodoxy and indeed fear in Singapore for over 50 years will no longer be with us. It is thus perhaps appropriate to begin discussing what the absence […]
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Tags: geoff wade, george yeo, lee kuan yew, pap, singapore, succession