![Longtime leader Lee Kuan Yew guided Singapore from colony to financial powerhouse Longtime leader Lee Kuan Yew guided Singapore from colony to financial powerhouse](https://resizer-awani.eco.astro.com.my/tr:w-177,h-100,q-100,f-auto/http://img.astroawani.com/2015-03/41427089879_295x200.jpg)
Longtime leader Lee Kuan Yew guided Singapore from colony to financial powerhouse
Lee Kuan Yew's efficient but often heavy-handed leadership helped transform Singapore from a chaotic British colonial backwater into one of the world's most prosperous and orderly states.
Mon Mar 23 2015
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Singapore rattled by death of patriarch Lee Kuan Yew
Singapore's founding PM, Lee Kuan Yew, died on Monday, leaving the wealthy and orderly city-state in uncharted territory as a small but growing percentage of the country questions one-party monolith.
Mon Mar 23 2015