Lee Kuan Yew
Lee Kuan Yew | |
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李光耀 | |
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| Meenister Mentor o Singapore Prime Meenister o Singapore | |
| In office 5 June 1959[1] – 28 November 1990 | |
| Preses | Yusof Ishak Benjamin Sheares Devan Nair Wee Kim Wee |
| Govrenor | Sir William Goode |
| Depute | Toh Chin Chye Goh Keng Swee S Rajaratnam Goh Chok Tong Ong Teng Cheong |
| Precedit bi | Lim Yew Hock (as Chief Meenister) |
| Succeedit bi | Goh Chok Tong |
| Meenister Mentor o Singapore | |
| In office 12 August 2004 – 21 Mey 2011 | |
| Prime Meenister | Lee Hsien Loong |
| Precedit bi | Poseetion established |
| Succeedit bi | Poseetion abolished |
| 2nt Senior Meenister o Singapore | |
| In office 28 November 1990 – 12 August 2004 | |
| Prime Meenister | Goh Chok Tong |
| Precedit bi | S. Rajaratnam |
| Succeedit bi | Goh Chok Tong |
| 1st Secretar-General o the Fowk's Action Pairty | |
| In office 21 November 1954 – 1 November 1992 | |
| Precedit bi | Poseetion established |
| Succeedit bi | Goh Chok Tong |
| Member o Pairlament for Tanjong Pagar GRC Tanjong Pagar SMC (1965–1991) | |
| In office 9 August 1965 – 23 Mairch 2015 | |
| Precedit bi | Parliament established |
| Succeedit bi | Indranee Thurai Rajah |
| Member o the Legislative Assemmly for Tanjong Pagar | |
| In office 2 Apryle 1955 – 9 August 1965 | |
| Precedit bi | Constituency established |
| Succeedit bi | Legislative Assemmly renamed tae Pairlament o Singapore |
| Member o the Malaysie Pairlament for Singapore | |
| In office 2 November 1963[2] – 9 August 1965 | |
| 1st Leader o the Opposeetion o Singapore | |
| In office 22 Apryle 1955 – 31 Mairch 1959 | |
| Precedit bi | Poseetion established |
| Succeedit bi | Lim Yew Hock |
| 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[3]) |
| Awairds |  (1967) |
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Lee Kuan Yew (born Harry Lee Kuan Yew, 16 September 1923[4] – 23 Mairch 2015), GCMG, CH, wis a Singaporean politeecian.[5][6][7][8] 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.[9]
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.[10][11] 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.[12]
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ "Past Prime Minister Mr. Lee Kuan Yew". Archived frae the original on 26 Juin 2018. Retrieved 25 Juin 2018.
- ↑ "PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES DEWAN RA'AYAT (HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES) OFFICIAL REPORT" (PDF). Dewan Rakyat. Retrieved 19 August 2019.
- ↑ "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 original on 13 September 2010. Retrieved 16 Juin 2013.
- ↑ Lee Kuan Yew (2012). My Lifelong Challenge: Singapore's Bilingual Journey. Singapore: Straits Times Press. ISBN 978-981-4342-03-2.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors leet (link)
- ↑ Reporter: Peter Day (5 Julie 2000). "Singapore's elder statesman". From Our Own Correspondent. BBC. World Servicehttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/820234.stm
|transcripturl=missing title (help). Unknown parameter|city=ignored (help) - ↑ Hume, Tim (20 Mairch 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", ...
[deid airtin] - ↑ "US, Japan must help out Asia, says Kuan Yew". New Sunday Times. Kuala Lumpur. Reuters. 22 Januar 1998.
Singapore's elder statesman Lee Kuan Yew said today ...
- ↑ McCarthy, Terry (23 August 1999). "Lee Kuan Yew". Time Asia. Hong Kong. Archived frae the original on 15 August 2004. Retrieved 16 Juin 2013.
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 Mey 2011. Archived frae the original on 2 December 2012. Retrieved 16 Juin 2013.
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- Lee Kuan Yew on Charlie Rose
- Lee Kuan Yew on IMDb
- 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 Archived 2013-08-27 at the Wayback Machine 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 Archived 2013-01-15 at the Wayback Machine
- 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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