MM Lee Kuan Yew discharged
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SINGAPORE: Former Minister Mentor and Member of Parliament (MP) for Tanjong Pagar Group Representation Constituency (GRC), Lee Kuan Yew, did not attend the annual Lunar New year dinner at his GRC on Friday evening.
Mr Lee was scheduled to be the guest of honour at the event.
Senior Minister of State for Law and MP for the area, Indranee Rajah, told grassroots leaders and residents at the dinner that Mr Lee was not feeling well and had extended his apologies for not being at the event.
Mr Lee thanked all residents for attending the event.
On behalf of the gathering, Ms Indranee wished Mr Lee a speedy recovery and hopes he feels better soon.
Channel NewsAsia understands from grassroots leaders in the division that this is the first time Mr Lee has missed the Tanjong Pagar division's Lunar New Year dinner celebrations.
Ms Indranee also elaborated on some of the plans in store for the division after the Lunar New Year celebrations.
These include the upgrading of two markets -- at Block 112, Jalan Bukit Merah and at Tanjong Pagar Plaza.
Describing the markets as old, she is confident that the upgrading would be very much welcomed.
Mr Indranee also spoke of plans for Tiong Bahru, where residents have expressed concern over the traffic and noise problems, and some social inconveniences.
She said she has put together a group called the "Make Tiong Bahru An Even Nicer Place Task Force" to sort out some of the immediate problems in the area.
- CNA/xqhttp://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1254502/1/.html
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when he die, will his funeral affects our business?
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may be he may be having some headaches or whatever after blood transfusion
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when's he open house?
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hisopen house sure in another location
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He has accepted God's invitation?
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what god's invitation.
he himself is God
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we are mentally prepared already
since long ago
but every time tio pian
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perhaps it might be the 2016 GE
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tio pian ....................
may be he now fighting with the snake, tell the snake don't bring him away
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Grand Master Lee Kuan Yew's new book:
An overflowing cup of praise for Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew
12feb13No word from Lee lately. Meanwhile, a scathing book review in the Vancouver Sun:
If Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s founding father and at 89 still the “Minister Mentor” of his patrimony, feels he has been maligned in speech or print he is always swift to bring charges of criminal libel or slander.
And Singapore’s judges, always so fair and trustworthy when dealing with civil cases on which the Lion City’s reputation as a business hub depends, have a long record of putting an extremely high valuation on the reputation of the man whose benevolent shadow still shelters his five million subjects.
But Graham Allison and Robert Blackwill, both American academics and former Washington officials, need have no fear that their new book on Lee’s pithy analysis of global trends will land them with bankrupting fines or prison terms as has happened to other commentators on the record of the Minister Mentor.
The title of this book – Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master’s Insights on China, the United States, and the World – gives a warning that we are entering a realm not of context, analysis and assessment but of hagiography. …
If the introduction creates an unreal world of flamboyant ego-stroking, once the reader finally gets to the words of the Grand Master himself things get seriously weird. …
The chapters are presented as Lee’s responses to interview questions, and Allison and Blackwill did have some interviews with the Minister Mentor for the preparation of this book.
But Lee’s responses have been cobbled together from numerous published interviews with several journalists as well as extracts from his own speeches and writings. …
As for the content, there are no big surprises.
http://leewatch.info/2013/02/12/an-overflowing-cup-of-praise-for-singapores-lee-kuan-yew/
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i may be the odd one out.. whether he got more good point or more bad point is not important.. at that time, singapore is lucky to have him.. just base on this alone, he deserve respect..
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Book Review: Lee Kuan Yew’s Taming of the Press
03jan13A review of OB Markers: My Straits Times Story, by Cheong Yip Seng, former Editor-in-Chief of the Singapore Press Holdings, published by Straits Times Press. Asia Sentinel:
From the very first chapter of this book to the last, it is full of detailed and astonishing revelations about the mainstream media in Singapore. It is an incredible resource for those trying to understand the control of the media and Singapore’s brand of self-censorship. Indirectly, Cheong Yip Seng’s My Straits Times Story is invaluable in helping to explain the dominance of one political party through its “symbiotic” relationship to all the mainstream print media in our country. …
There is more evidence of intimidation documented in this book, mainly from Lee Kuan Yew, who actually endorsed the book prominently. For example, after an early event at the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, Cheong was threatened by Lee with the words, “If you print this, I will break your neck”. Cheong’s response to what appears on the surface to be a brutal threat is interesting was: “I was taken aback by his thunderbolt…It was my first taste of Lee Kuan Yew’s ways with the media…Thankfully not every encounter would be as bruising as (that)…but there were many occasions when the knuckleduster approach was unmistakable.”
Such blatant intimidation is presumably rare in Singapore. The title of the book, however, describes the life of a Singaporean journalist constantly trying to negotiate the “OB” or “Out of Bounds” markers. Cheong explains the origin of the term “OB markers”, ascribing it to former minister George Yeo, who described them as “areas of public life that should remain out of bounds to social activism and the media. Otherwise, society paid an unacceptably high price.”
Outside of race and religion, the most important OB marker was then PM Lee Kuan Yew’s argument that the press could not be a “fourth estate” or center of power because it was not elected.
This is not a valid argument to me as it could be argued that the press are far more accountable than politicians as they have to seek the approval of the newspaper purchasing public every day rather than every four to five years in elections.
Instead, Lee’s view of the press was that it was a tool for dissemination and promotion of government policies. One illuminating illustration was a “furious” call from Lee’s office that was received by the (now defunct) New Nation Editor David Kraal. The editors were “flummoxed” to discover that the then PM was provoked by a photograph of a large family to illustrate a story of a happy Singapore family. Apparently, this was perceived by the PM as “subtle but effective criticism” of the “Stop at Two campaign” in which Lee sought to limit families to two children. …
Cheong makes it clear that while he had hoped that the “knuckleduster era” belonged to the 1970s, it could reappear any time. For example, he describes how while “recovering” from the 2006 general election, he received a phone call in a hotel in Phuket, from Lee Kuan Yew who was “livid” about a “powerfully argued column by Chua Mui Hoong” in which the deputy political editor had questioned the policy of placing opposition wards at the back of the queue for upgrading works. According to Cheong, Lee was “his old 1970s self. If the Straits Times wanted a fight, he was prepared to do it the old way, with knuckledusters on”. This is depressing but not surprising to any reader of the ST today.
http://leewatch.info/2013/01/03/book-review-lee-kuan-yews-taming-of-the-press/
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Originally posted by Tcsaaa:
i may be the odd one out.. whether he got more good point or more bad point is not important.. at that time, singapore is lucky to have him.. just base on this alone, he deserve respect..
in a way,on a positive note he did more than the hopeless son
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Originally posted by SJS6638:
in a way,on a positive note he did more than the hopeless son
both rather hopeless in some ways or another.
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From the time Lee was a schoolboy, his aggressiveness has been the subject of comment. A story in circulation during the 1960s came from a family source. The eleven-year-old Harry asked an uncle for one of his canaries. The uncle refused an
thought no more of it until he discovered the dead bird: the boy had pulled all its feathers out. 'If he could not have it, no one else would.' 'Lee would hit anybody' was the testimony of another old family friend.
Since coming to office, Lee has tended to indulge his instinct to bully and demolish. The need to flee from untenable situations have been reduced and dignified by the mechanism of physical or mental withdrawal. Power mostly removes the humiliation of being bested.
Within this dominant characteristic of aggression we may trace elements of rage, fear and self-aggrandisement. They may be proportionate to what arouses them, or they may carry an extra force derived from a previous injury. They make a negotiated settlement so much harder.
Two quite separate sources related the following story: 'A former Singapore newspaper proprietor, now retired, was having an audience with Lee and apparently not toeing the line. Lee leaned over, grabbed him by the collar, and said "I'm a thug, you're a thug, and as one to another, you'll do what I say."
- James Minchin. No Man Is An Island, 1987http://singaporerebel.blogspot.sg/2012/11/rev-james-minchin-and-our-secret-police.html
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Originally posted by Clivebenss:
both rather hopeless in some ways or another.
that is of course. more negative than positive but still better than the ah dou son.
a man who is overly self centred ....................................... not very good for the country.
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most of us are well aware what negative stuff he did.
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The racist beliefs of Lee Kuan Yew:
Lee Kuan Yew: Race, Culture and Genes
http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/APCITY/UNPAN004070.pdf
Outside of race and religion, the most important OB marker was then PM Lee Kuan Yew’s argument that the press could not be a “fourth estate” or center of power because it was not elected...
OB Markers, cannot talk in the PAP state media:
"For goodness sake, Lee Kuan Yew practically filled the entire cabinet with inbred Peranakans. For the last few decades in Singapore, the top positions in civil service, statutory boards, armed forces, GLCs have all along been going disproportionately to the Peranakans. That is one reason why Singapore has been run to the ground.
Lee Kuan Yew worked with the Japanese Kempeitai and later the British colonizers to suppress the non-Peranakan Chinese. That's why he has always been wary of non-Peranakan Chinese and could only entrust power to his own family members and his other Peranakan cronies."
http://tomorrow.sg/archives/2009/02/17/peranakans__going_the_way_of_the.html
It was the babas who were the framers of Singapore's rules and institutions. Many of Singapore's most prominent Chinese have had baba backgrounds. Lee Kuan Yew, who became prime minister of Singapore aged just 35, is the most obvious example. He claims a Hakka heritage, although his upbringing was that of a baba: at home, he spoke English with his parents and baba Malay to his grandparents. "Mandarin was totally alien to me and unconnected with my life," Lee said of his childhood.
For Lee, Chineseness was an acquired skill and later a political necessity. He was not brought up as a Chinese with a focus on China, but as a baba who looked to England. He followed the conventional career path of a baba and went to London to study law. And so Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore became Harry Lee of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. His father had given him and two of his brothers English, as well as Chinese, names. Did Lee run Singapore as a piece of Asia mired in Chinese ways? No. He ran it in a manner to which a British colonial administrator would have aspired…
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ioverrated. he didnt do it alone. as if that time PAP OMO? you mean otehr ministers and officials back then sit down shake leg only? or they never offered suggestions and policies to make things better?
last time thins are easier to handle. not lie now a mess!
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got PH?
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another byelection coming up?
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i think he kena angered so much by his useless son's decisions and fuck-ups until he fall sick
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When he is in power, any policy he implement was accepted without any excuse or reason.
Now a simple toilet paper on population have made the elite running around to find excuses and reason.
He must be upset on the lack of foresight and depth in the toilet paper and the disappointment in what happen now.
The standard is gone and the place is in a mess that he cannot endure anymore.
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He must be really disappointed and sad, Medicated Oil The years spent grooming his son...............................