Remembering Our World-Class Statesman
Lee Kuan Yew (1923–2015)
The Foreign Media on the Passing of Lee Kuan Yew (1923–2015)
It seems like only yesterday. Nine (9) years ago, Singapore’s Exceptional Statesman Lee Kuan Yew passed away. Lee Kuan Yew died on 23 March 2015 at 91 years old. A week-long mourning period (23–29 March 2015) was declared, and I celebrate again today his remembrance during that “Lee Kuan Yew Week”, with his Obituary on 23 March 2022.
For over 60 years, Lee Kuan Yew influenced, shaped and molded my life through the social, political and economic transformation of a Third World Singapore into the “First World” nation par none; characterized by economic prosperity, law and order, national security, housing for all, world-class education and full employment with social justice. He was my Prime Minister from 1959 to 1990, and stayed in the government as Minister Mentor till 2011, and was thereafter appointed Senior Advisor to the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation.
As the sun arose on 24 March 2015 to awake the world to the passing of its greatest exceptional Statesman, many news media paid their respect to Lee Kuan Yew in their publications.
The following are 9 selections of the foreign media on Lee’s death, mourning the loss not…
