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Hokkien POJ. Lí Kong-iāu. Lee Kuan Yew GCMG CH SPMJ DK (born Harry Lee Kuan Yew; 16 September 1923 – 23 March 2015), often referred to by his initials LKY, was a Singaporean statesman and lawyer who served as the first Prime Minister of Singapore from 1959 to 1990, and Secretary-General of the People's Action Party from 1954 to 1992.
Lim is an adjunct professor of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and has been a member of the Lee Kuan Yew Exchange Fellowship from 2005 to 2006. He has been a director of Temasek Holdings Pte. Ltd., a director of DBS Bank Ltd, a director of Neptune Orient Lines Limited , and variously chairman or director of a number of companies which ...
Death of Lee Kuan Yew on 23 March 2015. 03:18: Singapore's founding prime minister Lee Kuan Yew died at the Singapore General Hospital. [3] 04:07: Prime Minister's Office issued a statement acknowledging Lee Kuan Yew's death. Simultaneously, the statement was published via its official Facebook page.
Lee is the daughter of Lee Kuan Yew and Kwa Geok Choo. She is the younger sister of Lee Hsien Loong and the older sister of Lee Hsien Yang . Lee enjoys driving and admitted to speeding on a visit to New Hampshire in 1995; she was pulled over by highway police but was released by the sympathetic officer after discussing the caning of Michael Fay.
Wang is a University Professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and also Chairman of the Managing Board of the NUS's Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. He was the Director (1997-2006) and Chairman (2006-19) of the East Asian Institute in Singapore. [24]
Lee’s departure marked the end of a family dynasty led by his father Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s first leader, who built the colonial trading outpost into one of the world’s richest nations ...
Looking East to Look West: Lee Kuan Yew's Mission India won India's most prestigious literary non-fiction prize, the Vodafone Crossword Book Award for 2009. Written by Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, the book is a "profound" and "intricate" analytic-history of India's first major foreign policy innovation since Non-alignment: the Look East policy.
Wong succeeds Lee Hsien Loong, the son of the founding father of modern Singapore Lee Kuan Yew, after two decades at the helm. Wong was born on 18 December 1972 to a family he described as ordinary.