Posts Tagged ‘resignation’
Straits Times: The 10 high-powered members of Total’s international advisory committee usually meet in Paris. But this year, they gathered in Singapore for the first time – to honour Mr Lee Kuan Yew. Singapore’s founding prime minister, who turned 89 last Sunday, has been a member of the French oil and gas giant’s international advisory […]
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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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Today: Joint Statement by SM Goh Chok Tong and MM Lee Kuan Yew We have studied the new political situation and thought how it can affect the future. We have made our contributions to the development of Singapore. The time has come for a younger generation to carry Singapore forward in a more difficult and […]
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Lee Kuan Yew Watch 
The GE 2011 Political Demise of Lee Kuan Yew: A Supreme Irony
Novelist and columnist Catherine Lim on Lee Kuan Yew’s resignation. Catherine Lim: Indeed, the nations’ shock on 14 May, just a week after the election, at the resignation of MM from the cabinet (together with Mr Goh Chok Tong, Senior Minister) could only be described as seismic in the Singapore political landscape. It reflected the […]
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