"The trouble is that the system requires someone like Lee Kuan Yew at the top — strict and charismatic, as Michael Barr, author of Singapore: A Modern History, told me. 'But no one who has that political skill would ever rise to the top today because that person would be regarded as a threat,' he said."

#FarahStockman, 2023

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/12/opinion/international-world/singapore-autocracy-democracy.html

#Singapore #LeeKuanYew #MichaelBarr #autocracy

#Singapore will be rolling out a commemorative coin and other sorts of hagiographic activity to mark what would have been #LeeKuanYew’s 100th birthday if he hadn’t died in 2015. https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/lee-kuan-yew-100th-birth-anniversary-commemorative-coin-events-3259361

Passing by #Letchworth Garden City and struck by the hypothesis that #LeeKuanYew possibly had the idea to transform #Singapore into a Garden City from his time spent studying in #Cambridge

இப்படி பேசியதற்காகவே, இன்று "சிங்கப்பூரின் தந்தை" என்று அறியப்படும் லீ குவான் யூ, எதிர்காலத்தில் சிங்கப்பூரின் எதிரியாக்கப்படுவார்.

https://www.facebook.com/698176051/posts/10160109452086052/?app=fbl

#LeeKuanYew
#singapore