Founding leader Lee Kuan Yew and his team were so successful, they made redundant the narrative of a vulnerable Singapore that needed the best to serve, says former veteran newspaper editor Han Fook Kwang.
As the late leader’s 100th birth anniversary approaches, former Singapore newspaper editor Han Fook Kwang looks back at Lee’s past remarks to gauge what he would make of the world now.
The debate over what should happen to LKY’s home after his death in died in 2015 may have begun as a Lee family issue, but it now spiraled into an extremely public spectacle that has somehow gotten tangled up in politics as well.