Monday, 23 March 2015
News Break: Singapore's Founding father, Lee Kuan Yew Dies @ 91
If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you're putting yourself out of business. Lee Kuan Yew
Lee Kuan Yew, the 91 years old Singapore transformer has passed on early this Monday morning in a general hospital, after several weeks of being hospitalized of pneumonia.
World leaders including Obama (USA), Putin(RUSSia) has described Mr Yew as a strategist and a great leader.
The people of Singapore has also gone into a 7days mourning to honour the great leader. More tributes have been coming in for the late leader from around the world. The national mourning will culminate to a state burial on Saturday.
Who Is Lee Kuan Yew?
Lee was Singapore's first prime minister and was a Prime Minister for 31 years, He was one of Singapore's founding fathers.
Lee, a Cambridge-educated lawyer, is widely credited with building Singapore into one of the world's wealthiest nations on a per capita basis with a strong, pervasive role for the state and little patience for dissent. He co-founded the People's Action Party (PAP), which has ruled Singapore since 1959 and led the newly born country when it was separated from Malaysia in 1965.
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Source: BBC and Oneasia
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A great man has fallen. ..i concur with that his quote
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