Increasing number feel PAP taking SG in wrong direction
Lee's authoritarian legacy may fall short for Singapore as young seek voice, inequality rises SINGAPORE (AP, 23 Mar) -- Lee Kuan Yew brought prosperity to Singapore with an authoritarian system designed to outlast him, but that legacy may be ill-suited for the 21st-century challenges facing the tropical city-state. One of the...
Lee Kuan Yew: One of a kind
It is nearly impossible to appropriately describe the Singapore strongman, Lee Kuan Yew, who died at 3:18am today at the Singapore General Hospital. He was admitted on Feb. 5 for pneumonia. Strongman naturally comes to mind because that is how the global media often described him. But he was more than that. There were many strongmen...
The wise man of the East
Lee Kuan Yew made Singapore a paragon of development; but authoritarians draw the wrong lessons from his success If you seek his monument: look around Singapore. Prosperous, orderly, clean, efficient and honestly governed, it is not the work of Lee Kuan Yew alone. But even his severest critics would agree that Mr Lee, who died...
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