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Lee Kuan Yew

GCMG, CH
李光耀
Lee Kuan Yew.jpg
Meenister Mentor o Singapore Prime Meenister o Singapore
In office
5 June 1959[1] – 28 November 1990
PresesYusof Ishak
Benjamin Sheares
Devan Nair
Wee Kim Wee
GovrenorSir William Goode
DeputeToh Chin Chye
Goh Keng Swee
S Rajaratnam
Goh Chok Tong
Ong Teng Cheong
Precedit biLim Yew Hock (as Chief Meenister)
Succeedit biGoh Chok Tong
Meenister Mentor o Singapore
In office
12 August 2004 – 21 Mey 2011
Prime MeenisterLee Hsien Loong
Precedit biPoseetion established
Succeedit biPoseetion abolished
2nt Senior Meenister o Singapore
In office
28 November 1990 – 12 August 2004
Prime MeenisterGoh Chok Tong
Precedit biS. Rajaratnam
Succeedit biGoh Chok Tong
1st Secretar-General o the Fowk's Action Pairty
In office
21 November 1954 – 1 November 1992
Precedit biPoseetion established
Succeedit biGoh Chok Tong
Member o Pairlament
for Tanjong Pagar GRC
Tanjong Pagar SMC (1965–1991)
In office
9 August 1965 – 23 Mairch 2015
Precedit biParliament established
Succeedit biIndranee Thurai Rajah
Member o the Legislative Assemmly for Tanjong Pagar
In office
2 Apryle 1955 – 9 August 1965
Precedit biConstituency established
Succeedit biLegislative 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 biPoseetion established
Succeedit biLim Yew Hock
Personal details
BornHarry Lee Kuan Yew
16 September 1923(1923-09-16)
Singapore, Straits Settlements
Dee'd23 Mairch 2015(2015-03-23) (aged 91)
Singapore General Hospital, Singapore
NaitionalitySingapore
Poleetical pairtyFowk's Action Pairty
Spoose(s)Kwa Geok Choo (m. 1950; weed. 2010)
BairnsLee Hsien Loong
Lee Wei Ling
Lee Hsien Yang
Alma materFitzwilliam College, Cambridge
Lunnon Schuil o Economics
ThriftPoliteecian
ProfessionLawyer
ReligionNone (Agnostic[3])
AwairdsJPN Kyokujitsu-sho 1Class BAR.svg (1967)
This is a Cheenese name; the faimlie name is Lee.
Lee Kuan Yew
Cheenese李光耀

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]

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  1. ↑ "Past Prime Minister Mr. Lee Kuan Yew". Archived frae the oreeginal on 26 June 2018. Retrieved 25 June 2018.
  2. ↑ "PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES DEWAN RA'AYAT (HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES) OFFICIAL REPORT" (PDF). Dewan Rakyat. Retrieved 19 August 2019.
  3. ↑ "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.
  4. ↑ Lee Kuan Yew (2012). My Lifelong Challenge: Singapore's Bilingual Journey. Singapore: Straits Times Press. ISBN 978-981-4342-03-2.
  5. ↑ Reporter: Peter Day (5 July 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)
  6. ↑ 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
  7. ↑ "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", ...
  8. ↑ "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 ...
  9. ↑ McCarthy, Terry (23 August 1999). "Lee Kuan Yew". Time Asia. Hong Kong. Lee Kuan Yew towers over other Asian leaders on the international stage ...
  10. ↑ "Why it's no change in Singapore". The Guardian. London. 16 August 2004.
  11. ↑ "Singapore told to feel free". The Guardian. London. Associated Press. 13 August 2004.
  12. ↑ "SM Goh, MM Lee to leave Cabinet". Channel NewsAsia. Singapore. 14 May 2011.

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