♪ ♪ >> anthony: to many, singapore is the land of opportunity. people from all over the world come here to get a good job, to find a better life. >> mike: as an overseas chinese, we have been discriminated in laos, thailand, vietnam, indonesia, malaysia, in america, australia, all over the world. suddenly, you got this guy called lee kuan yew. there's nowhere else in the chinese world have a real leader as big as lee kuan yew. >> anthony: much of singapore's success is often credited to its first prime minister, lee kuan yeu, a singaporean of chinese decent considered the founding father of modern singapore. reigning pretty much unopposed for 30 years, he's responsible for much of the social engineering that holds singapore