Lee Kuan Yew: Watching my country mourn from afar
Singapore saw a rare outburst of emotion in the week leading up to the funeral.Watching the reaction to Lee Kuan Yew's death from overseas has been a surreal and difficult experience. As a Singaporean journalist with the BBC, it's been a privilege to cover many stories about my country over the years. But here was probably its...
HK: Kim Jong-un impersonator disrupts LKY’s funeral broadcast
Howard holds up a small sign as he takes to the stage at Central Plaza, before he was swiftly bundled away.The sombre mood at a Hong Kong viewing of the live broadcast of Lee Kuan Yew's state funeral yesterday was momentarily broken by a Kim Jong-un impersonator and activist. Shouts of "crazy" and "get out" broke out from the...
Lee Kuan Yew: How did Asia remember him?
Lee - with wife Kwa Geok Choo - spent decades on the diplomatic stage."Anyone who thinks he is a statesman ought to see a psychiatrist." That comment, from Lee Kuan Yew, the most quotable of Asian leaders, must have been made with his tongue at least partly in his cheek. His exceptionally long tenure on the diplomatic stage,...
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