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SIN CE 1845 MARCH 23, 2015 í SPECIAL EDITION LEE KUAN YEW Sept 16, 1923 - March 23, 2015 90 cents A Singapore Press Holdings publication MCI (P) 032/02/2015 # 1923: Born on Sept 16 to Shell Oil Company depot PMO STATEMENT manager Lee Chin Koon and Chua Jim Neo in his family’s THE Prime Minister is deeply two-storey grieved to announce the bungalow at passing of Mr Lee Kuan Yew, 92, Kampong Java ‘Never fear!’ the founding Prime Minister of Road. Singapore. Mr Lee passed away peacefully at the Singapore 1935: Came in first in Telok Kurau Mr Lee overcame daunting challenges General Hospital today at English School in an islandwide Seven-day mourning 3.18am. He was 91. exam and won a place in Raffles and delivered on his promise Arrangements for the public Institution, where he met future wife of a better life for Singaporeans PRIME Minister Lee Hsien Sunday at the National to pay respects and for the Kwa Geok Choo in 1939. Loong has declared a University of Singapore’s funeral proceedings will be He previously attended two seven-day period of national University Cultural Centre. announced later. Chinese-medium schools. By WARREN FERNANDEZ it on Aug 9, 1965. mourning for Singapore’s The service will be attended EDITOR He famously wept on TV an- founding Prime Minister Lee by the late Mr Lee’s family, 1940: Topped the Senior Cambridge nouncing the “moment of an- Kuan Yew, who died early this friends and staff; President CABINET STATEMENT exams in Singapore and Malaya, and SINGAPORE’S founding father, guish”, when Singapore was “sev- morning at age 91. Tony Tan Keng Yam; Cabinet won the Anderson Scholarship to Mr Lee Kuan Yew, has died, leav- ered” from Malaysia. Not only As a mark of respect, the ministers; Members of DEPUTY Prime Minister read English, economics and ing behind the unlikely nation he had he believed deeply in a unified state flags on all government Parliament; and Mr Lee’s Teo Chee Hean, Deputy Prime mathematics at Raffles College. and his colleagues built over five Malaysia as a multiracial society, buildings will be flown at fellow founding members of Minister Tharman Shanmuga- decades as his lasting legacy. but he must also have sensed the half-mast for the mourning the ruling People’s Action ratnam and Cabinet colleagues A brief statement from the enormity of the task for the new period, which starts today and Party. send our deepest condolences Prime Minister’s Office early this city-state to make a living in an in- ends on Sunday. Senior civil servants, to Prime Minister Lee Hsien morning said: “The Prime Minis- hospitable world. A private family wake will grassroots leaders and Loong and the family of our ter is deeply grieved to announce He would lead a pioneer genera- be held today and tomorrow at Singaporeans from all walks of founding Prime Minister, Mr the passing of Mr Lee Kuan Yew, tion of Singaporeans to overcome Sri Temasek, a statement by life will also be attending the Lee Kuan Yew. We will always the founding Prime Minister of a series of daunting challenges, the Prime Minister’s Office service, which will be followed remember his sound guidance, Singapore. Mr Lee passed away from rehousing squatters in said today. by a private cremation at his constant questioning, and peacefully at the Singapore Gener- affordable public housing, to re- Mr Lee’s body will lie in Mandai Crematorium. his fatherly care for Singapore al Hospital today at 3.18am. He building the economy after the state at Parliament House Condolence books and and for all of us. Let us 1946: Began law school at the London was 91.” sudden pullout of British forces from Wednesday to Saturday cards will be available in front dedicate ourselves to Singapore School of Economics, but moved to A second statement two hours and the oil shocks of the 1970s, for the public to pay their last of the Istana main gate from and Singaporeans, in the way Cambridge University the next year, later said a week-long period of and a major economic recession in respects. They can do so from today to Sunday, for those that Mr Lee showed us. when Kwa joined him. They married national mourning would be ob- the mid-1980s. Through it all, he 10am to 8pm daily during that who wish to pen their tributes secretly on Dec 23, 1947, in served, with state flags flown at exhorted people to “never fear” as time. to the late Mr Lee. Condolence Stratford-upon-Avon. half-mast until Sunday. A two- they looked forward to a better life. A state funeral service for books will also be opened at FOR HOTLINE, ONLINE QUERIES day private family wake will be “This country belongs to all of Mr Lee will be held at 2pm on all overseas missions. AND TRIBUTES FOR MR LEE 1950: Called to the Bar at the Middle held at Sri Temasek in the Istana, us. We made this country from í Go online to Temple after graduating the year followed by his body lying in state nothing, from mudflats... Today, www.rememberingleekuanyew.sg before. Returned to Singapore, joined in Parliament until Saturday, for this is a modern city. Ten years and www.facebook.com/ law firm Laycock & Ong and married the public to pay their last re- from now, this will be a metropo- radical thinker, and was instru- he mourned deeply, but mostly in rememberingleekuanyew to Mrs Lee officially on Sept 30. They spects. A State Funeral will be lis. Never fear!” he thundered at a mental in a host of major policies private. They had married secret- leave tributes for Mr Lee, had three children: Hsien Loong held on Sunday at 2pm, followed grassroots event in Sembawang in that have shaped almost every as- ly as undergraduates in Cam- or to find out more about the (born in 1952); Wei Ling (1955); and by a private cremation. September 1965. pect of Singaporeans’ lives, from bridge in 1947, and Mr Lee is said funeral, and Mr Lee’s life and Hsien Yang (1957). Mr Lee had been in SGH since He delivered on this promise, promoting public housing, home to have instructed, in a note to his contributions. Feb 5 with severe pneumonia, earning the trust of voters who re- ownership, racial integration in children, that when the time í Or call the official hotline on 1954: Formed the People’s Action prompting an outpouring of good turned his party to office repeated- public estates, and later estate up- came, their ashes should be mixed 6336-1166, or e-mail Party, inaugurated at Victoria wishes as an anxious nation await- ly over the decades. He represent- grading, to adopting English as a so they might be “joined after life [email protected] if you have Memorial Hall on Nov 21. ed updates on his deteriorating ed Tanjong Pagar for 60 years, common language for the dispa- as they had been in life”. any queries. condition, hoping for a recovery. since 1955, when he was first elect- rate races in Singapore. His two-part memoirs, The Sin- 1955: Elected legislative assemblyman He outlived several other titans ed the area’s assemblyman. He made multiracialism and gapore Story, revealed how he for Tanjong Pagar on April 2. from Singapore’s tumultuous He stepped down as Prime Min- meritocracy as well as economical- and his colleagues believed that Founded his own law firm Lee & founding years – Goh Keng Swee, ister in 1990 after 31 years. He ly sound and corruption-free gov- Malaysian leaders anticipated the 1967: Full-time National Service Lee with Mrs Lee and younger Lim Kim San, S. Rajaratnam, chose to hand over the premier- ernment hallmarks of the Singa- day when an independent Singa- introduced to build Singapore’s brother Dennis on Sept 1. Devan Nair, Toh Chin Chye, ship to Mr Goh Chok Tong while pore way. He carried over his own pore would fail and be forced to defence force ahead of British troops’ Eddie Barker, Hon Sui Sen. Sadly, still in robust health at the age of NOVEMBER 1961: Mr Lee Kuan Yew with Minister after its independence in 1957. frugal ways to the business of gov- appeal for readmission to the Fed- pullout in 1971. 1959: Sworn in as Singapore’s first he will be greatly missed on Aug 9 67, and took on the role of Senior Tunku Abdul Rahman, who was Chief The Tunku initially opposed the idea of ernment and was relentless in his eration, on Malaysia’s terms. Prime Minister at the age of 35 after as Singapore marks the 50th anni- Minister, serving as guide and Minister of the Federation of Malaya a merger with Singapore, but changed fight against the “cancer of cor- “No, not if I could help it,” he 1990: Stepped down as the PAP won 43 out of 51 seats in the versary of the Republic he played mentor in the Cabinet. from 1955 and the country’s first Prime his stand in 1961. PHOTOS: ST FILE ruption”, making plain no one once declared. “People in Singa- Prime Minister after 31 General Election. so critical a role in shaping. Noting this unusual willingness was beyond being investigated pore were in no mood to crawl years and succeeded He leaves his two sons, Prime to relinquish power, Time maga- and ejected from office if they back after what they had been by Mr Goh Chok Tong. 1960: Enacted a law to wipe out Minister Lee Hsien Loong, 63, and zine said in 1991: “What really world to pay court to him in Singa- he made plain that he was not strayed.
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