During the Summit, Singapore President Tharman Shanmugaratnam presented the Lee Kuan Yew World City Prize 2024 to Mexico City. The 7th edition of the biennial award also honoured Cape Town (South ...

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 ...

SINGAPORE: The singer Grimes, who is perhaps best known as the former partner of Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk, touched on a number of topics in an intervi ...

Some people joke that the government micromanages the details of life right down to how well Singapore Airlines flight attendants fill out their batik-patterned dresses. They say Lee Kuan Yew has ...

Jon Pelson’s Feb. 6 op-ed “Lee Kuan Yew’s Cane and Trump’s Tariffs” offers “a lesson in deterrence from the founder of modern Singapore.” In the 1980s the prime minister embraced ...

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 ...

SINGAPORE (AFP): A grandson of Singapore's founding leader Lee Kuan Yew and nephew of the current prime minister was convicted Wednesday (July 29) of contempt of court over a Facebook post ...

SINGAPORE, (AFP) - Singaporeans got a rare glimpse into the private life of the country's most powerful family on Thursday following the funeral of elder statesman Lee Kuan Yew's wife. Kwa Geok Choo, ...

The United States has missed its opportunities to withdraw from Vietnam and now must stay and fight, Lee Kuan Yew, Prime Minister of the Republic of Singapore, said at Harvard yesterday afternoon.

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 ...