Photo: Michael Nagle/Mauricio Palos/David Kawai/Bloomberg News Lee Kuan Yew, the founder of modern Singapore and the creator of the economic miracle there, was a famously strict ruler. Considered ...

Lee Kuan Yew, prime minister of the city-state of Singapore, is a mayor who talks as though he may one day be a world statesman. The 44-year-old prime minister is an imposing figure who gives the ...

It was where Lee Kuan Yew lived for decades, where he started his political party and where he began building Singapore into one of the richest countries in the world. Mr. Lee had said that he ...

Lee Kuan Yew was a politician, lawyer, and the first prime minister of Singapore, serving from 1959 to 1990. Often regarded as the architect of modern Singapore, Lee transformed the small ...

SINGAPORE /CITY/, March 29 /TASS/. Millions of Singaporeans will on Sunday pay their last respects to Lee Kuan Yew, the country’s first prime minister and founder, who died at the age of 91 on ...

He’s had enough playing with it. If I had to mention one leader (Abdoolcarim interviewed for Time) who left the biggest impression, it would be Lee Kuan Yew. In 2005, when Lee was about 82 years ...