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Passing of Mr Lee Kuan Yew

Which world leader will NOT make it for the funeral

  • Obama

    Votes: 13 59.1%
  • Cameron

    Votes: 7 31.8%
  • Putin

    Votes: 13 59.1%
  • Abbott

    Votes: 6 27.3%
  • Merkel

    Votes: 7 31.8%
  • Xi

    Votes: 10 45.5%

  • Total voters
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theone

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He's gone.

http://www.pmo.gov.sg/mediacentre/passing-mr-lee-kuan-yew-founding-prime-minister-singapore

Passing of Mr Lee Kuan Yew, founding Prime Minister of Singapore

The Prime Minister is deeply grieved to announce the passing of Mr Lee Kuan Yew, the founding Prime Minister of Singapore. Mr Lee passed away peacefully at the Singapore General Hospital today at 3.18 am.
He was 91.
Arrangements for the public to pay respects and for the funeral proceedings will be announced later.

PRIME MINISTER’S OFFICE
SINGAPORE
23 MARCH 2015
 

tonychat

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Time to Celebrate : Old Fart Lee Kuan Yew Die Liao!!!!!!!

[video=youtube;3GwjfUFyY6M]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GwjfUFyY6M[/video]

Let's Party!!!!
 

tonychat

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Re: Time to Celebrate : Old Fart Die Liao!!!!!!!

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Leongsam

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Re: Time to Celebrate : Old Fart Die Liao!!!!!!!

Since he did not jump out of bed, it proves that Singapore is in good shape and all is well.
 

zeroo

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My heart just sank receiving this news, but may he now rest in eternal peace and free from pain.

Goodbye my country's greatest hero. We shall miss you for a long time to come.



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Passed away on 23 March 2015 at 0318 hours.

23 and 318

Sincere condolences.
May his memory be eternal.
 
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tonychat

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Re: Time to Celebrate : Old Fart Die Liao!!!!!!!

Since he did not jump out of bed, it proves that Singapore is in good shape and all is well.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-32012346

Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew dies at 91
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Obituary: Lee Kuan Yew
Lee Kuan Yew, the statesman who transformed Singapore from a small port city into a wealthy global hub, has died at the age of 91.

Mr Lee served as the city-state's prime minister for 31 years, and continued to work in government until 2011.

Highly respected as the architect of Singapore's prosperity, Mr Lee was also criticised for his iron grip on power.

Under him freedom of speech was tightly restricted and political opponents targeted by the courts.

The announcement was made "with deep sorrow" by the press secretary of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Mr Lee's son.

"The Prime Minister is deeply grieved to announce the passing of Mr Lee Kuan Yew, the founding Prime Minister of Singapore," his office said in a statement.

It said Mr Lee passed away peacefully at the Singapore General Hospital at 03:18 local time on Monday (19:18 GMT on Sunday).


This is more accurate...not from a fishing village but a small city port...It is city port..not fishing village..
 

tonychat

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The announcement was made "with deep sorrow" by the press secretary of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Mr Lee's son.


Deep sorrow for his own family only, But Joyous Celebration for the rest
 

lurpsexx

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Re: Time to Celebrate : Old Fart Die Liao!!!!!!!


Now radio gushing eulogies abt his past.. Pui!

Exactly like.north Korea...

Tmr will there be hoards of por lan pars crying on the streets? The controlled msm will give front page coverage!

So chun hor, drag his death for so long to milk the pity votes to keep his.dictatorship party alive, and pull the ventilator in the dead of the night while all are asleep , to "shock" the nation as it awakes in a few hours time.. Do so much just for a few more sympathy votes to keep his son afloat.. Pap pr machinations really tok kong... can.use a dead man to win a few more votes.. Desperate? Your guess is as good as mine.. GE coming soon and every opportunity can't be let up.. As i listen to the radio eulogy now, it has dawned on me how come they can so fast (within an hr of his death in the dead of the night) setup so long so fluid so detailed eulogy? Only possible if they knew when they'll pull the plug.. Such orchestrated moves must have been preplanned long ago and well detailed.. Lky died, life still goes on..dun waste time on only one man when the honor should have been given to each and every old folk who built up singapore in their own ways. 0318, 2203, 2235..huat ah!
 

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http://www.pmo.gov.sg/mediacentre/passing-mr-lee-kuan-yew-founding-prime-minister-singapore

Passing of Mr Lee Kuan Yew, founding Prime Minister of Singapore
The Prime Minister is deeply grieved to announce the passing of Mr Lee Kuan Yew, the founding Prime Minister of Singapore. Mr Lee passed away peacefully at the Singapore General Hospital today at 3.18 am. He was 91.

Arrangements for the public to pay respects and for the funeral proceedings will be announced later.*

*

PRIME MINISTER’S OFFICE

23 MARCH 2015

I am so fucking happy can not sleep
 

lurpsexx

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My heart just sank receiving this news, but may he now rest in eternal peace and free from pain.

Goodbye my country's greatest hero. We shall miss you for a long time to come.



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Hip hip hooray! Save 15k monthly and one more free bed space for another elderly!
 

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Re: 放炮啊!grand celebration LKY 100% confirmed dead

Mr Lee leaves behind two sons and a daughter.
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Singapore's first Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew







SINGAPORE: Mr Lee Kuan Yew, who was Singapore’s first Prime Minister when the country gained Independence in 1965, has died at the age of 91.
"The Prime Minister is deeply grieved to announce the passing of Mr Lee Kuan Yew, the founding Prime Minister of Singapore. Mr Lee passed away peacefully at the Singapore General Hospital today at 3.18am. He was 91," said the PMO.

Arrangements for the public to pay respects and for the funeral proceedings will be announced later, it added.
Mr Lee, who was born in 1923, formed the People’s Action Party in 1954, then became Prime Minister in 1959. He led the nation through a merger with the Federation of Malaysia in 1963, as well as into Independence in 1965.
He leaves behind two sons – Lee Hsien Loong and Lee Hsien Yang – and a daughter, Lee Wei Ling.


- CNA/ly
 

lurpsexx

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He's gone.

http://www.pmo.gov.sg/mediacentre/passing-mr-lee-kuan-yew-founding-prime-minister-singapore

Passing of Mr Lee Kuan Yew, founding Prime Minister of Singapore

The Prime Minister is deeply grieved to announce the passing of Mr Lee Kuan Yew, the founding Prime Minister of Singapore. Mr Lee passed away peacefully at the Singapore General Hospital today at 3.18 am.
He was 91.
Arrangements for the public to pay respects and for the funeral proceedings will be announced later.

PRIME MINISTER’S OFFICE
SINGAPORE
23 MARCH 2015

Will.by election be called in tg pagar now? Or will pap hand be forced to call for elections now? Think they're prepared long ago either way..
 

makapaaa

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Re: 放炮啊!grand celebration LKY 100% confirmed dead

Lee Kuan Yew, Founding Prime Minister of Singapore, Dies at 91 Don't Miss Out —
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Lee Kwan Yew, then Singapore's outgoing prime minister, second right, taking his oath of office as senior minister in the new government of Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong, left, in Singapore, on Nov. 28, 1990. Photographer: Roslan Rahman/AFP/Getty Images



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(Bloomberg) -- Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s first elected prime minister, died in the city-state at the age of 91 on Monday, according to the Prime Minister’s Office.
Lee, the Cambridge University-trained lawyer who led the nation from 1959 to 1990, crafted a legacy of encouraging foreign investment, averting corruption and emphasizing discipline, efficiency and interracial harmony. His elder son, Lee Hsien Loong, has been prime minister since 2004.
“The prime minister is deeply grieved to announce the passing of Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, founding Prime Minister of Singapore,” the office said in a statement. “Mr. Lee passed away peacefully at the Singapore General Hospital today at 3:18 a.m.”


Lee was hospitalized in the intensive care unit of the hospital near the city-state’s downtown on Feb. 5 to treat severe pneumonia, where he was sedated and put on mechanical ventilation.
He was diagnosed with sensory peripheral neuropathy at 86, which impaired feeling in his legs, his daughter Lee Wei Ling, former director of the National Neuroscience Institute in Singapore, wrote in a column in the Sunday Times in November 2011. He was hospitalized for an infection in February last year, and had a pacemaker implanted in 2008 to address an irregular heartbeat.
Lee had a lawyer and doctor sign an Advanced Medical Directive saying that if he had to be fed by a tube, and if it was unlikely he would recover and be able to walk, his doctors were to remove the tube and let him make a “quick exit,” he wrote in his 2013 book One Man’s View of the World.
[h=2]Quickly, Painlessly[/h]“There is an end to everything and I want mine to come as quickly and painlessly as possible, not with me incapacitated, half in coma in bed and with a tube going into my nostrils and down to my stomach,” he wrote.
The elder Lee resigned from Singapore’s cabinet in May 2011 after the ruling party he co-founded -- the People’s Action Party -- won the general election with the smallest margin of the popular vote since independence in 1965.
His son underwent a robot-assisted keyhole surgery on Feb. 16 to treat prostate cancer. The procedure went “very smoothly,” according to a statement on the website of the Prime Minister’s Office, citing surgeon Christopher Cheng, the lead urologist at Singapore General Hospital.
The younger Lee, 63, visited his father on Feb. 21, delaying the traditional Lunar New Year greeting until the third day of the holiday at the advice of doctors treating the two men, he said in a Twitter and Facebook post.
“This was the first year in a long while that we could not attend the Lee family reunion dinner,” he said in the post.
To contact the reporter on this story: Sharon Chen in Singapore at [email protected]
To contact the editors responsible for this story: Rosalind Mathieson at [email protected] Lars Klemming
 

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Let's review his power hungry life
 

zeroo

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23 March 2015

Mr Lee Hsien Loong
Prime Minister



Dear Hsien Loong



On behalf of the people of Singapore, I would like to convey my most heartfelt condolences to you and your family on the passing of your dear father, Mr Lee Kuan Yew.

Mr Lee dedicated his entire life to Singapore from his first position as a legal advisor to the labour unions in the 1950s after his graduation from Cambridge University to his undisputed role as the architect of our modern Republic. Few have demonstrated such complete commitment to a cause greater than themselves.

Mr Lee was elected into the British Legislative Assembly in 1955 and became Singapore’s first Prime Minister after leading the PAP to victory in the 1959 general elections when Singapore was granted full internal self-government. At that time, Singapore faced problems of high unemployment, poor infrastructure and a hostile external environment. To secure Singapore’s access to land, water and natural resources, Mr Lee led Singapore to join the Federation of Malaysia before declaring independence from Britain in 1963. However, the problems were exacerbated when Singapore lost its economic hinterland after our forced separation from Malaysia in 1965. Many doubted if Singapore could survive as a nation but Mr Lee rallied our people together and led his cabinet colleagues to successfully build up our armed forces, develop our infrastructure and transform Singapore into a global metropolis.

Even when Singapore’s urban development was still in its early phases, Mr Lee already had the vision of establishing Singapore as a liveable Garden City. Mr Lee initiated the ambitious project to clean up the Singapore River and Kallang River which were then heavily polluted by garbage, sewage and industrial waste. The Singapore River now forms part of the Marina Bay, which is not only a valuable source of fresh water for our city state, but also a place which is enjoyed by Singaporeans and tourists from around the world. Mr Lee also set up the Housing Development Board to develop our public housing estates to give every citizen a stake in the nation. Today, because of Mr Lee’s farsightedness, Singapore is hailed as a model of sustainable and inclusive development for developing cities around the world.

Mr Lee made lasting contributions towards the building of a meritocratic and multi-cultural Singapore. As Singapore’s first Prime Minister, Mr Lee put in place measures to ensure that university places, government contracts, and appointments into public office would go to the most deserving candidates based on merit and regardless of race and religion. Mr Lee also established English as the common working language and the main medium of instruction in our schools so that all Singaporeans would have equal opportunities to learn, communicate and work regardless of race. Each ethnic group was encouraged to learn its mother tongue as a second language to preserve the cultural and community identity of the group. Because of these policies, Singaporeans today are able to leverage on our bilingual and bicultural edge to take advantage of the opportunities that present themselves around the world.

A leader who placed service before self-interest, Mr Lee stepped down as Prime Minister in 1990 to allow for a smooth leadership renewal after he had built up a younger team of Cabinet Ministers. Nevertheless, he continued to serve and advance Singapore’s interests at home and abroad as Singapore's Senior Minister from 1990 to 2004 and then as Minister Mentor from 2004 to 2011. He had spent more than 50 years in the cabinet and was the world's longest-serving Prime Minister when he stepped down in 1990.

Through Mr Lee, Singapore earned international recognition and established cooperative relations with major countries affecting our region. Mr Lee was one of the first to recognize China's potential under Deng Xiaoping's reforms. Mr Lee’s brilliant intellect and candour of opinion led many international leaders and foreign diplomats to seek his views on developments in the region and around the world. Widely revered as a senior statesman, Mr Lee was conferred numerous international accolades throughout his political career.

Many aspects of our lives bear Mr Lee’s imprint - be it our HDB estates, our gardens, or the SAF. Without his remarkable foresight and relentless pursuit of Singapore’s development, the Singapore that we know today would not exist. Singapore was his passion and he continued serving Singapore till the last days of his life. Singaporeans owe an eternal gratitude to Mr Lee Kuan Yew. The greatest tribute that Singaporeans can pay him is to treasure and build upon the legacy that Mr Lee and his team have left us, and make Singapore an even better home for our future generations.

Our thoughts are with you at this time of sorrow.

With my deepest sympathies,




TONY TAN KENG YAM
 
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