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The life and legacy of Lee Kuan Yew

Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore's founding father and first prime minister, passed away on Monday at the age of 91. Yew's passing has reminded the world of his substantive influence on Singapore. The......

PM to attend Singapore founder Lee Kuan Yew's funeral

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will attend the funeral of Singapore's founder and first Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew on March 29. Lee, 91, died of severe pneumonia on Monday. The prime minister will......

Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore's founding father, dies at 91

Former prime minister Lee Kuan Yew during the LKY School of Public Policy 7th anniversary dialogue session in September 2011. Photograph: Tim Chong/Reuters  Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore's......

World leaders, grateful Singaporeans bid adieu to Lee Kuan Yew

  Former U.S. president Bill Clinton (left to right), Australia's Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrive for the funeral service of former leader Lee Kuan Yew at......

'It's ok lah, Lee Kuan Yew sleeping now!'

'The question now is how long the exercise in perfection he created will last once his influence isn't there any longer. I remember an occasion late at night when our taxi took the wrong exit from......

What China learned from Lee Kuan Yew... and India didn't

Lee deserved to lead a bigger country than Singapore, the city of 5 million he ruled for three decades, says Rahul Jacob. One of the asymmetries of history is the lack of correspondence between the......

Narayana Murthy urged to join politics

Infosys chairman N R Narayana Murthy may still be smarting from a spat with a politician, but he was on Saturday asked by Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew to enter politics to "transform......

Nodal trade office to be set up in Singapore: Mamata

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday announced setting up of a nodal office in Singapore to promote global investments into West Bengal. "To facilitate your investment, we will......

The poor rich NRIs

On the eve -- literally -- of departing for a third stint in Singapore, I looked up its demographic statistics. They confirmed what a British population survey indicated recently - Indians are on......

Free trade: Ready for takeoff

As more than 26 Indians, led by the Union Commerce Secretary, Dipak Chatterjee, and a Singaporean team headed by their Permanent Secretary for Trade and Industry, Heng Swee Keat, wrestled this week......

We Indians changed our colours, just for the day!

'Amazingly, along with the yellow army, there was still a huge number of desis, who had flown in from various parts of the world.' 'No, we didn't sell our tickets -- we just changed our colours,......

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