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On 23 March 2015, Lee Kuan Yew, the founding prime minister of Singapore and co-founder of the People's Action Party, died at the age of 91 at 03:18 Singapore Standard Time (UTC+08:00), after having been hospitalised at the Singapore General Hospital with severe pneumonia since 5 February that year. A formal announcement was made on national ...
Lee Wei Ling (7 January 1955 – 9 October 2024) was a Singaporean neurologist.She was the director of the National Neuroscience Institute.. A prominent member of the Lee family, she was the younger sister of Lee Hsien Loong, the older sister of Lee Hsien Yang and the only daughter of Lee Kuan Yew, the founding prime minister of Singapore.
The original conception for The Straits Times has been debated by historians of Singapore. Prior to 1845, the only English-language newspaper in Singapore was The Singapore Free Press, founded by William Napier in 1835. [10] Marterus Thaddeus Apcar, an Armenian merchant, had intended to start a paper, hired an editor, and purchased printing ...
Shane Todd was an American engineer who died under disputed circumstances in Singapore in June 2012. Local authorities said Todd had committed suicide, though his family insists that he was murdered, [2] possibly in connection with the work he had been doing at the Institute for Micro Electronics ("IME"), part of the Singaporean government-run Agency for Science, Technology and Research ("A ...
A state funeral was arranged for the following people on their deathbed on the respective date: Ahmad Ibrahim (21 August 1962) – Minister of Health and Labour. Yusof Ishak (23 November 1970) – 1st President of Singapore. Benjamin Henry Sheares (May 12, 1981) – 2nd President of Singapore.
Death in Singapore. Graves at the Kranji War Cemetery – photographed on 13 November 2005. Deaths in Singapore offset the population increase from live births. In 2007, 17,140 people in Singapore died from various causes. The death rate was 4.5 deaths per 1,000 of the population. [1] There are strict regulations surrounding death and treatment ...
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19. Fatally stung by hornets. [3] Chua Chu Kang, Singapore. Second Lieutenant (2LT) Tay Seow Kai. 26 August 1970. 21. 2LT Tay grabbed a grenade from a recruit who fumbled while handling the grenade during a live exercise. The grenade detonated in his hand, killing him and causing minor injuries for 2 others.