Poetry is “a luxury we cannot afford”, Singapore’s founding prime minister, Lee Kuan Yew, said many years ago. He intended it to be a maxim for the then-fledgling nation to focus on matters ...

Now Cantonese is my default language in Hong Kong ... who left the biggest impression, it would be Lee Kuan Yew. In 2005, when Lee was about 82 years old and held an emeritus position as minister ...

Lee Kuan Yew, prime minister of the city-state of Singapore, is a mayor who talks as though he may one day be a world statesman. The 44-year-old prime minister is an imposing figure who gives the ...

The United States has missed its opportunities to withdraw from Vietnam and now must stay and fight, Lee Kuan Yew, Prime Minister of the Republic of Singapore, said at Harvard yesterday afternoon.

SINGAPORE /CITY/, March 29 /TASS/. Millions of Singaporeans will on Sunday pay their last respects to Lee Kuan Yew, the country’s first prime minister and founder, who died at the age of 91 on ...

Professor Danny Quah has been appointed dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (LKY School) at the National University of Singapore. Professor Quah is a member of the LSE IDEAS Advisory ...

Brilliant academic and lawyer Lee Kuan Yew narrowly survived the Japanese occupation of Singapore to lead his stricken country to independence and once-unimaginable prosperity Lee Kuan Ye addresses ...