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The Chosun Ilbo (English), 6 Apr 2011Singapore's founding leader Lee Kwan Yew predicts that it would take China at least 20 years to become a technology powerhouse. In an interview in the latest issue of U.S. magazine Business Week, Lee said China is "still behind the U.S. They have to put up a stealth fighter, put a man into space. That's a prodigious effort on their part."Despite being the

Focus Taiwan News Channel, 1 Apr 2011Singapore, March 31 (CNA) Singapore statesman and former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew returned home Thursday after a four-day private visit to Taiwan, during which he met with President Ma Ying-jeou and other "old friends," official sources said.Lee, 87, was accompanied by his daughter Lee Wei Ling, director of Singapore's National Neuroscience Institute,

AFPWASHINGTON — The wave of revolts against authoritarian regimes in the Arab world will not spread to China as its leaders are not worried about global opinion, Singapore's founding father Lee Kuan Yew said.Chinese Internet users inspired by events in the Middle East have tried to organize mass strolls in a number of cities but they have faced a clampdown by authorities. Full storyWatch the

CNNGo.com, 11 Mar 2011When I read the headline, “MM Lee: I stand corrected,” I gasped.I looked around me to see if I was still in the same universe or if I had been moved to a parallel one; I watch too much "Fringe."I felt the walls to see if there was rip in the space-time continuum.I confess, I do not know if checking walls is even the right procedure to check for rips in space-time.Nope, I was

Malaysia Star, 11 Mar 2011Talking to Lee Kuan Yew was a one-sided affair. His style of conversation, like his manner of addressing the Malaysian Parliament when he was a member, was to lecture his listeners about what was right and what was wrong. But during our discussion, I came to realise that he did not know all that much, especially on technological matters. I remember one occasion when he

YoutubeThis is an interview titled "Hot-button Topics" found on the DVD on the back cover of the new book "Lee Kuan Yew Hard Truths To Keep Singapore Going"

Trend.az, 8 Mar 2011Singapore state founder Lee Kuan Yew retracted controversial remarks on the city-state's Malay Muslim community, news reports said Tuesday.In a book launched in January, Lee is quoted as saying that multiracial Singapore was making good progress "until the surge of Islam came." He described Muslims as "distinct and separate," and called on them to "be less strict on Islamic

The Malaysian Insider, 10 Feb 2011KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 10 — Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad offered his long-time political foe Lee Kuan Yew his own version of “hard truths,” telling Singapore’s founding father today to regard Malaysia as a competing neighbour rather than a military threat.“Malaysia has no intention to attack Singapore even if it is militarily weak. In fact we wanted to continue to supply

The Malaysian Insider, 7 Feb 2011Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad dismissed in a recent book Lee Kuan Yew’s achievements as the founding father of Singapore, and accused the island republic’s minister mentor of once wanting to be prime minister of Malaysia.“The fact remains that he is the mayor of Singapore,” the former Malaysian prime minister was quoted as saying in “Doctor M: Operation Malaysia —

Monsters and Critics, 1 Feb 2011Singapore - Singapore leaders have been busy in recent days currying favour with the city-state's Malay Muslim community after state founder Lee Kuan Yew stirred uproar with remarks on Muslims, claiming their piety hindered their full integration into Singaporean society.On Sunday, the prime minister made his stand, saying his perspective was different from his

Malaysia Star, 25 Jan 2011SINGAPORE’S Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew will accept the reality if any of his grandchildren is homosexual, Sin Chew Daily and Nanyang Siang Pau reported.Sin Chew Daily, which quoted excerpts from the interview, reported Lee as saying that former US vice-president Dick Cheney was against homosexuality but he still loved his daughter even though she was a lesbian.However,

The Hindu, 24 Jan 2011“China and India cannot fight a big war because they both have nuclear weapons,” said Mr. Lee, noting that even the long Himalayan border between the two countries was not worth a fight. And, “what are the Americans going to fight China over?” At the same time, the Chinese, in his view, “need not fight” the U.S. for “control” over East Asia. “Slowly and gradually [the

Sin Chew Jit Poh, 23 Jan 2011Singapore's founding father Lee Kuan Yew has urged local Muslims to "be less strict on Islamic observances" to aid integration and the city-state's nation-building process.Singapore has a predominantly Chinese population, with minority races including Muslim Malays and Indians, and Lee has always stressed the importance of racial harmony. Full storyRelated:Lee Kuan

ABS CBN News, 21 Jan 2011SINGAPORE - Singapore's elder statesman Lee Kuan Yew wants his family home torn down for redevelopment after he dies instead of being turned into an historical shrine.In excerpts from a new book launched Friday, Lee said he had already instructed the government to destroy the British colonial-era bungalow situated off the premier Orchard Road shopping belt after his death

AFPSINGAPORE — Singapore needs young immigrants to save its economy from long-term decline as a result of a falling birth rate, elder statesman Lee Kuan Yew said in remarks published Wednesday."At these low birth rates, we will rapidly age and shrink," the 87-year-old Lee said in comments released to the local media after the government disclosed that the city-state's birth rate fell to a record

Monsters and Critics, 15 Jan 2011Having been criticized as an authoritarian leader intolerant of dissent, Lee said the Singapore government was not preventing political competition.'What we are preventing is duds getting into parliament and government. Any person of quality, we welcome him, but we don't want duds,' he said.'We don't want Chee Soon Juan and JB Jeyaretnam,' Lee said, disgrading two

The China Post, 17 Dec 2010TAIPEI, Taiwan — Former President Chen Shui-bian was criticized as a “gambler” for promoting Taiwan independence as a distraction to his corruption scandals by former Singapore Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, according to a U.S. embassy cable released by the website WikiLeaks.In a cable classified as confidential on Oct. 19, 2007 (according to WikiLeaks), the U.S. Embassy

The Phnom Penh Post, 15 Dec 2010Singapore’s founding father Lee Kuan Yew said Cambodia should not have been accepted into ASEAN due to its lack of shared values with the bloc’s founding members, according to a secret diplomatic cable released yesterday by the website WikiLeaks.The cable, marked “confidential” and sent by the United States embassy in Singapore, documents a 2007 meeting between Lee

The Associated PressSINGAPORE (AP) — Singapore statesman Lee Kuan Yew called Myanmar's junta leaders "stupid" and "dense" in conversations with U.S. diplomats, according to classified documents released this week by WikiLeaks.The Singapore leader said dealing with Myanmar's military regime was like "talking to dead people," according to a confidential U.S. briefing on a 2007 conversation between

Malaysia Star, 4 Dec 2010At 87 and one of Asia’s veteran statesmen, Lee had occasionally played a middle-man role between China and the United States, especially in their early relationship. He now finds that his frank – at times embarrassing – opinions meant for top American ears, being widely accessible.For young Singaporeans who read the cables, the reaction was different from that of their