Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Lee Kuan Yew, founder of modern Singapore, dies at 91...

Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore's first prime minister and architect of the tiny Southeast Asian city-state's rapid rise from British tropical outpost to global trade and financial center, died early on Monday, aged 91, the Prime Minister's Office said. "Mr Lee passed away peacefully at the Singapore General Hospital today at 3.18 A.M," a statement said. Lee, a Cambridge-educated lawyer, is widely credited with building Singapore into one of the world's wealthiest nations on a per capital basis with a strong, pervasive role for the state and little patience for dissent.

P/s: Masih teringat ungkapan kata kata apabila Singapura keluar dari gagasan Malaysia- 'pastinya Singapura keluar dari Malaysia seperti matahari terbit'.

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