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| Lee Kuan Yew GCMG, CH | |
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| 李光耀 | |
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| Meenister Mentor o Singapore | |
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In office 12 August 2004 – 21 Mey 2011 | |
| Prime Meenister | Lee Hsien Loong |
| Precedit bi | New title |
| Succeedit bi | Poseetion abolished |
| Senior Meenister o Singapore | |
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In office 28 November 1990 – 12 August 2004 | |
| Prime Meenister | Goh Chok Tong |
| Precedit bi | S. Rajaratnam |
| Succeedit bi | Goh Chok Tong |
| Prime meenister o Singapore Elections: 1959- 1988 | |
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In office 3 Juin 1959 – 28 November 1990 | |
| Preses |
Yusof bin Ishak Benjamin Henry Sheares C. V. Devan Nair Wee Kim Wee |
| Deputy |
See list
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| Succeedit bi | Goh Chok Tong |
| General Secretary o the Fowk's Action Pairty o Singapore | |
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In office 21 November 1954 – 1 November 1992 | |
| Succeedit bi | Goh Chok-Tong |
| Member o Pairlament for Tanjong Pagar GRC Tanjong Pagar SMC (1955–1991) | |
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In office 2 April 1955 – 23 March 2015 | |
| Precedit bi | Constituency established |
| Succeedit bi | TBD |
| Majority | Walkover |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Harry Lee Kuan Yew 16 September 1923 Singapore, Straits Settlements |
| Dee'd |
23 Mairch 2015 (aged 91) Singapore General Hospital, Singapore |
| Naitionality | Singapore |
| Poleetical pairty | Fowk's Action Pairty |
| Spoose(s) | Kwa Geok Choo (m. 1950; weed. 2010) |
| Bairns |
Lee Hsien Loong Lee Wei Ling Lee Hsien Yang |
| Alma mater |
Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge Lunnon Schuil o Economics |
| Thrift | Politeecian |
| Profession | Lawyer |
| Religion | None (Agnostic[1]) |
| Awairds |
 (1967) |
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Lee Kuan Yew (born Harry Lee Kuan Yew, 16 September 1923[2] – 23 Mairch 2015), GCMG, CH, wis a Singaporean politeecian.[3][4][5][6] Eften referred tae as the Faither o Singapore or bi the initials LKY, he wis the first Prime Meenister o the Republic o Singapore, govrenin for three decades. He is an aa widely recognised as the foondin faither o modren Singapore.
As the co-foonder an first General Secretar o the Fowk's Action Pairty (PAP), he led the pairty tae aicht victories frae 1959 tae 1990, an owersaw the separation o Singapore frae Malaysie in 1965 an its subsequent transformation frae a relatively unnerdeveloped colonial ootpost wi na naitural resoorces intae a "First Warld" Asie Teeger. He is ane o the maist influential poleetical figurs in Asie.[7]
Singapore's seicond prime meenister Goh Chok Tong appointit him Senior Meenister in 1990. He held the advisory post o Meenister Mentor, creatit bi his son Lee Hsien Loong, when the latter acame the naition's third prime meenister in August 2004.[8][9] Wi his successive ministerial poseetions spannin ower 50 years, Lee is an aa ane o history's langest-serving meenisters. On 14 Mey 2011, Lee an Goh Chok Tong annoonced thair retirement frae the cabinet efter the 2011 general election.[10]
References[eedit | eedit soorce]
- ↑ "Days of reflection for the man who defined Singapore: A transcript of Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew's interview with The New York Times". Today. Singapore. 13 September 2010. pp. 14–17. Archived frae the oreeginal on 13 September 2010.
- ↑ Lee Kuan Yew (2012). My Lifelong Challenge: Singapore's Bilingual Journey. Singapore: Straits Times Press. ISBN 978-981-4342-03-2.
- ↑ Reporter: Peter Day (5 July 2000). "Singapore's elder statesman". From Our Own Correspondenthttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/820234.stm
|transcripturl=missing title (help). BBC. World Service. Unkent parameter|city=ignored (help) - ↑ Hume, Tim (20 March 2011). "The lost world of a wild tribe". Sunday Star Times. Auckland, NZ.
His memoir sits on display in Singapore airport between biographies of founding statesman Lee Kuan Yew and Donald Rumsfeld
- ↑ "Wife of Lee Kuan Yew dies at 89". Bangkok Post. AFP. 2 October 2010.
The wife of Singapore's founding father, Lee Kuan Yew, whom the statesman called his "great source of strength and comfort", ...
- ↑ "US, Japan must help out Asia, says Kuan Yew". New Sunday Times. Kuala Lumpur. Reuters. 22 January 1998.
Singapore's elder statesman Lee Kuan Yew said today ...
- ↑ McCarthy, Terry (23 August 1999). "Lee Kuan Yew". Time Asia. Hong Kong.
Lee Kuan Yew towers over other Asian leaders on the international stage ...
- ↑ "Why it's no change in Singapore". The Guardian. London. 16 August 2004.
- ↑ "Singapore told to feel free". The Guardian. London. Associated Press. 13 August 2004.
- ↑ "SM Goh, MM Lee to leave Cabinet". Channel NewsAsia. Singapore. 14 May 2011.
Freemit airtins[eedit | eedit soorce]
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Wikiquote haes a collection o quotations relatit tae: Lee Kuan Yew |
- Lee Kuan Yew on IMDb
- Wirks bi or aboot Lee Kuan Yew in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
- Lee Kuan Yew collectit news an commentary at The New York Times
- Lee Kuan Yew at the Notable Names Database
- Interviews an airticles
- A Conversation wi Lee Kuan Yew, Fareed Zakaria, Foreign Affairs, Mairch–Aprile 1994
- War o Wirds Alejandro Reyes, Time, 25 September 1998
- Lee Kuan Yew: A Chronology, 1923–1965 Largely based on Lee Kuan Yew, The Singapore Story: Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew. Singapore: Times, 1998. Retrieved 8 December 2004
- Part 1, Part 2: CNN, Fareed Zakaria talks wi Lee Kuan Yew aboot his life as prime meenister o Singapore, 22 September 2008
- Daddy knows best: The Lee Kuan Yew story, Tom Plate, Sify.com, 2010(?)
- Lee Kuan Yew Watch
- Offeecial Profile at the Parliament o Singapore (archived)
- The cutty film Interview wi Lee Kuan Yew (1967) is available for free dounlaid at the Internet Archive [mair]
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