Lee Kuan Yew, who founded modern Singapore and was both feared for his authoritarian tactics and admired for turning the city-state into one of the world’s richest nations, died Monday… The country’s first and longest-serving prime minister, Lee guided Singapore through a traumatic split with Malaysia in 1965 and helped transform what was then a… Read more.
Lee Kuan Yew, the World’s Most Admired Authoritarian Leader, Is Dead
Monday, March 23, 2015 at 5:46 AM