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Demolish or keep? Survey gauges Singaporeans’ views on 38 Oxley Road

The survey by Black Dot Research also shows most Singaporeans consider the saga over Lee Kuan Yew’s family home to be a private matter.

6 Nov 2024 - 4:32PM

Lee Hsien Yang claims Singapore ‘weaponised’ laws against critics

31 Oct 2024 - 5:21PM

Amid 38 Oxley Road debate, a look at how Asia preserves former leaders’ homes

26 Oct 2024 - 11:54AM

Lee Hsien Yang creating ‘false’ urgency for Oxley Road demolition: Singapore

The estranged brother of former Singapore PM had urged PM Lawrence Wong to expedite action in fulfilling Lee Kuan Yew’s wish for the house to be demolished.

25 Oct 2024 - 9:46PM

People walk past Lee Kuan Yew’s house at 38 Oxley Road in Singapore. Photo: AFP

Backlash over eating hotpot in a car, China’s biggest trade show: 7 highlights

From top talents in Hong Kong struggling to find work to backlash over eating hotpot in an electric vehicle, here are a few highlights from SCMP’s recent reporting.

8 Nov 2024 - 10:47AM

Leaving Singapore: a look at Lee Hsien Yang and 6 others who chose asylum

Among the asylum seekers were blogger Amos Yee, the late former prosecutor Francis Seow and pro-Palestinian activist Ang Swee Chai.

25 Oct 2024 - 9:50AM

Singapore weighs preserving 38 Oxley Road despite Lee Hsien Yang’s application

NHB says allowing Lee Hsien Yang’s demolition bid now would rule out a ‘proper and full consideration’ of the options for the house.

24 Oct 2024 - 7:59PM

A view of former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew’s Oxley Road residence in Singapore. Photo: Reuters

Singapore’s Lee Hsien Yang says he is ‘political refugee’, has UK asylum status

The brother of former Singapore prime minister Lee Hsien Loong says the UK has assessed he faces ‘a well-founded risk of persecution’.

22 Oct 2024 - 11:50PM

Singapore’s Lee Hsien Yang to apply to demolish Oxley Road home

Lee Hsien Yang and sister Lee Wei Ling had accused older brother, then-PM Lee Hsien Loong, of attempting to keep home for political capital.

15 Oct 2024 - 11:18PM

Singapore ex-PM Lee Hsien Loong attends wake of sister Lee Wei Ling

The move comes amid the resurfacing of the 38 Oxley Road family feud.

10 Oct 2024 - 10:16PM

Singapore’s former prime minister Lee Hsien Loong and his wife Ho Ching arrive at Singapore Casket at Lavender Street on Thursday, for the wake of his sister Lee Wei Ling. Photo: Jean Iau

Lee Wei Ling, daughter of Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew, dies at 69

Brother and former PM Lee Hsien Loong posted a heartfelt message about his sister’s death, lamenting ‘shadow’ that had come between siblings.

9 Oct 2024 - 7:08PM

Lee Wei Ling in her younger years, in a picture shared by her brother Lee Hsien Yang announcing her death. Photo: Facebook/LeeHsienYang

Singapore ministers slam Lee Hsien Yang’s ‘rich’ claim on father’s link to suit

Ministers Vivian Balakrishnan and K. Shanmugam took issue with Lee Hsien Yang’s Facebook post about their defamation suit against him.

1 Oct 2024 - 4:12PM

Elon Musk praises Singapore’s Lee Hsien Loong for ‘wisdom’ on woke culture

The Tesla CEO shared a clip of Lee saying the wokeness movement leads to ‘extreme attitudes and social norms’.

22 Aug 2024 - 12:35PM

Kishore Mahbubani calls criticism of his memoir ‘fossilised’ thinking

Singapore’s veteran diplomat denies saying that Lee Kuan Yew was jealous of him over a global magazine ranking.

21 Aug 2024 - 6:14PM

Kishore Mahbubani speaks at the launch of his memoir “Living the Asian Century: An Undiplomatic Memoir” at the Fullerton Hotel in Singapore. Photo: NUS Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy

Kishore Mahbubani on Singapore’s ‘secrets’ to success and why he annoyed Lee Kuan Yew

In his book ‘Living the Asian Century’, the veteran diplomat explains the principles behind Singapore’s winning governance model.

11 Aug 2024 - 3:41PMvideocam

Kishore Mahbubani at the Singapore Summit in 2019. Photo: Singapore Summit

How Kishore Mahbubani got S$100 million in 3 minutes from Hong Kong’s Li Ka-shing

In his book ‘Living the Asian Century’, the veteran diplomat recalls how a bold request led to a stunningly generous donation for his school.

11 Aug 2024 - 4:13PM

Kishore Mahbubani in his memoir: the rebel undergraduate who took on Lee Kuan Yew

In his book ‘Living the Asian Century’, the veteran diplomat recalls how an article criticising Singapore’s founding father changed his life

11 Aug 2024 - 4:11PM

SpaceX’s Musk praises Singapore’s ‘brilliant’ first PM for Changi Airport

Elon Musk shared a blog lauding Lee Kuan Yew’s foresight in developing Changi Airport, which has been named the world’s best airport 12 times by London-based research firm Skytrax.

22 Jul 2024 - 4:06PM

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk recently praised Singapore’s first PM for developing the country’s airport. Photo: AP

Singapore’s new PM Lawrence Wong sworn in, pledges to ‘lead in our own way’

Singapore’s fourth prime minister sworn in on Wednesday evening, taking the reins at a time of intensifying great power rivalry abroad and an increased appetite for political opposition at home.

16 May 2024 - 12:50AMvideocam

The Loong goodbye: not the end of the political road for Singapore PM

Lee Hsien Loong has led the island nation through major challenges in his two decades behind the wheel and will hand over power on May 15.

15 May 2024 - 2:39PMvideocam

Who is Singapore’s Lawrence Wong? From political underdog to next PM

Those who know Wong say he is a ‘highly relatable political leader’, and laud him for being a team player, a quiet go-getter and a persistent doer.

20 Apr 2024 - 8:08PMvideocam

Lawrence Wong taking a wefie. Wong will become Singapore’s fourth prime minister on May 15. Photo: Facebook/Lawrence Wong

Kissinger’s mixed legacy: from ‘war criminal’ in Vietnam to ‘friend’ of Singapore

Many Vietnamese think Henry Kissinger ‘crippled the country’, while in Singapore he is respected as a pivotal anti-Communist ally who was a confidante of Lee Kuan Yew.

1 Dec 2023 - 4:22PMvideocam

Henry Kissinger speaks during an interview in Singapore on November 6, 2018. Photo: AFP

‘The whole city is my garden’: Singapore plants seeds for a green revolution

Singapore’s government has a goal to plant 1 million new trees by 2030, and make it so in the future no citizen should live more than a 10-minute walk from a park.

28 Nov 2023 - 11:31AMvideocam

Singapore court orders PM’s estranged brother to pay damages to ministers

In a Facebook post, alleged that the Law and Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam and Foreign Affairs Minister Vivian Balakrishnan were given preferential treatment in renting colonial bungalows.

28 Nov 2023 - 6:00AM

World in ‘transition’ from US-led order to multipolar one: Singapore’s George Yeo

At a launch for his latest book, the ex-minister commented on China’s rise, the war in Gaza, why Hongkongers are ‘bothered by Singapore’, and on late leader Lee Kuan Yew: ‘He was not a sadist.’

23 Nov 2023 - 5:43PMvideocam

Yeo with his wife, Jennifer Yeo, and former Chief Justice Andrew Li Kwok-nang (middle), who delivered the opening address. Photo: Handout/HKU

Li Ka-shing hails Hong Kong and Singapore’s growth path in Lee Kuan Yew tribute

Hong Kong’s richest man commended Lee’s commitment to the people in his video message, adding he missed his ‘old friend’.

6 Oct 2023 - 2:04PMvideocam

Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing (left) shares a light moment with Lee Kuan Yew at the opening ceremony of the Li Ka Shing Library at Singapore Management University in 2006. Photo: Li Ka Shing Foundation

Malaysia-born Hong Kong billionaire Robert Kuok feted on 100th birthday

Hong Kong tycoons Li Ka-shing and Lee Shau-kee are among those who have extended warm wishes to Malaysia’s richest man on his centenary.

6 Oct 2023 - 2:11PM

Singaporeans ‘cringe’ over advice on discarding drink packet with founder’s image

Lee Kuan Yew’s memorialisation remains a subject of debate in Singapore, but he is said to have vehemently opposed having a personality cult around him.

4 Oct 2023 - 5:00PM

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Lee Kuan Yew

Lee Kuan Yew is considered the founding father of modern Singapore. Born Harry Lee Kuan Yew in September 1923, he governed Singapore over three decades and oversaw its separation from Malaysia, transforming it from a relatively underdeveloped British colonial outpost with no natural resources into a "First World" Asian Tiger. His People's Action Party won eight back-to-back electoral victories until he stepped aside in 1990. Lee stepped down from government in 2011. Lee died on March 23, 2015.

Born

16 Sep 1923

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Job Title

Former Prime Minister of Singapore

last updated:

7 October, 2024