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Aug 2, 2023 · Lee, the 71-year-old son of the country’s late founding father Lee Kuan Yew whose People’s Action Party (PAP) has ruled Singapore since even before its independence in 1965, spoke before...
May 12, 2015 · As a 16-year-old is convicted over a video criticising religion and late PM Lee Kuan Yew, the BBC's Tessa Wong asks what this says about Singapore society.
Aug 7, 2023 · For Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s first prime minister, the young republic’s best hope of survival after divorce from Malaysia was to transform itself into a base camp for multinational...
Aug 7, 2023 · The repudiation of corruption has been a core principle since founding prime minister Lee Kuan Yew took office in 1959 dressed with his team in white and vowing that leaders must be "whiter than white". Ministers are paid more than S$1 million ($1.13 million) a year to discourage corruption and attract the best and brightest.
On 20 November, Evan Yeo, CPIB's Director, informed Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew of the allegations against Teh. Lee agreed that the CPIB should continue to investigate discreetly and stressed that Teh had to be prosecuted if he had accepted bribes.
Apr 4, 2018 · When Lee Kuan Yew, the principal architect and first prime minister of the wealthy island state, died in 2015, over a million Singaporean residents turned out to honour his memory and his...
Jun 28, 2022 · This paper analyses the role of Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s first prime minister from June 1959 to November 1990, in minimising corruption by implementing a zero-tolerance policy toward corruption in Singapore.
