Synopsis: Every first Friday of the month, The Straits Times catches up with its foreign correspondents about life and trends in the countries they’re based in. Trichy in southern India has no ...

This eulogy by Singapore’s Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew was delivered at the funeral service of his wife, Kwa Geok Choo, at a private ceremony at Mandai Crematorium on Wednesday.

Brilliant academic and lawyer Lee Kuan Yew narrowly survived the Japanese occupation of Singapore to lead his stricken country to independence and once-unimaginable prosperity Lee Kuan Ye addresses ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lee Hsien Yang on Wednesday formally joined a new opposition party competing against his brother Lee Hsien Loong's People's Action Party, which has ruled the city-state since its independence ...