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38 Oxley Road is an eight-bedroom two-storey bungalow located near Orchard Road, Singapore.The house was built in the late 19th century and was the residence of the first prime minister of Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew, from the 1940s until his death in 2015. [1]
The court found the 2006 article "Singapore's 'Martyr': Chee Soon Juan" suggested that Lee "ha[d] been running and continue[d] to run Singapore in the same corrupt manner as Durai operated [the National Kidney Foundation] and he ha[d] been using libel actions to suppress those who would question [him] to avoid exposure of his corruption". [363]
Mr Lee was always conscious that he did not act alone, but as a member of a team. His core team included Goh Keng Swee , S Rajaratnam , Othman Wok , Hon Sui Sen , Lim Kim San , amongst others. It was a multi-racial team who complemented one another's strengths, trusted one another implicitly, and through their joint efforts created a prosperous ...
MasterCard grayscaled their logos on social media profile on Facebook and "express our deepest condolences to the family of Singapore's founding father, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew." [137] Visa grayscaled their logos on social media profile on Facebook and "express its sincere condolences at the passing of Singapore's First Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew." [138]
Lee believed that "the rights of the society as a whole must, in my view, to make Singapore work, be placed above the rights of the individual, otherwise it will not work. If everybody is out after his own interests, regardless of everybody else, the society will just disintegrate. [61] In an interview in the Straits Times in 1987, Lee said:
The Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy is an autonomous postgraduate school of the National University of Singapore (NUS). It was formally launched on 4 August 2004 and named in honour of Singapore's first and longest-serving prime minister. The school inherited the Policy Programme that NUS had set up with Harvard Kennedy School in 1992 ...
Kwa Geok Choo, the wife of Lee Kuan Yew, is the daughter of Wee Yew Neo, [10] [11] who is in turn the sister of Helene Tan, wife of Tan Chin Tuan. [12] [13] The Tan's are another prominent family in Singapore, whose members include Tony Tan, the 7th President of Singapore, Tan Kim Seng, a Peranakan businessman, and Mr and Mrs Tan Eng Sian, who the College of Alice and Peter Tan are named after.
Koufu (Chinese: 口福) is a Singaporean food and beverage company operating a chain of food courts, coffee shops and casual eateries. [2] Founded in 2002, the company currently operates 180 outlets of coffee shops and food courts and 12 brands in Singapore and one food court in Macau.