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therakyatpost.com - 23 Mar 2015 Consumer prices in Singapore fell in February for a fourth-consecutive month, the longest slide in more than five years, underscoring expectations that the central bank may ease monetary policy further in April. The all-items consumer price index (CPI) fell 0.3% in February from a year earlier,... 

Praise for Lee Kuan Yew, who died on Monday at the age of 91, is coming in from around the world. Just about everyone agrees he did marvels for his country, transforming Singapore from a swampy colonial port to an economic dynamo in the course of a generation. What he did for the world was less admirable. His main contribution... 

When Lee Kuan Yew died on March 23, he was rightly acknowledged as having built Singapore into a strong and vibrant economic power after its tumultuous separation from Malaysia in 1965. His strict authoritarian regime over three decades was rationalized by his admirers – what else could he do, leader of this fledgling state,...