1st Prime Minister of the Republic of Singapore (1923–2015)
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He ran Singapore for three decades and built a postage stamp of tropical swamp into one of the richest places on earth — through meritocracy, zero tolerance for graft, and tight control of nearly everything else. The model worked. The cost was civil liberties, a neutered press, and detention without trial.
Born in colonial Singapore in 1923 to a Peranakan Chinese family, Lee studied law at Cambridge and was called to the bar at the Middle Temple in 1950. He returned home, practised law, and co-founded the People's Action Party in 1954, winning a seat the next year. By 1959 he was prime minister, leading Singapore into a merger with Malaya to form Malaysia in 1963. Racial conflict and ideological rifts forced Singapore out two years later, suddenly independent and alone. Lee then steered the tiny city-state through economic transformation — courting foreign capital, enforcing meritocracy and anti…
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Three women were brought to the Singapore General Hospital, each in the same condition and needing a blood transfusion.
For me, it is a moment of anguish. All my life, my whole adult life, I believed in merger and unity of the two territories.
How does the Malay in the kampong find his way out into this modernised civil society?
Of course there are Chinese millionaires in big cars and big houses. Is it the answer to make a few Malay millionaires with big cars and big houses?
They (the Malay extremists) have triggered off something basic and fundamental. Malaysia — to whom does it belong? To Malaysians. But who are Malaysians?
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