After a brilliant 13-year career in the Singapore Armed Forces Lee Hsien Loong (born 1952) was elected a member of Parliament for Teck Ghee in 1984, winning more than 80 percent of the vote. In Octobe...
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SINGAPORE, Oct 17 (Reuters) - London's Financial Times
apologised on Wednesday to Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien
Loong and his father Lee Kuan Yew after the paper said it
implied the prime m...
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Taipei (dpa) - Gay rights activists in Taiwan condemned Tuesday
Singapore's retention of a law discriminating against homosexuals
Tuesday.
"This shows how con...
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Selected editorial excerpts from the U.S. press:
OBAMA'S FINANCE PLOY (The Wall Street Journal, New York)
Barack Obama is promising to end partisanship in Washington, and
here's a place ...
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Singapore (dpa) - Acute threats to health in a globalized world
are the focus of World Health Day on Monday when political, business
and opinion leaders gather in Singapore ...
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Singapore (dpa) - Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong departed for
Washington on Wednesday for talks with US President George Bush
expected to focus on a full range of regional a...
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Singapore (dpa) - A new organization called OnePeople.sg will be
formed to bring Singaporeans together regardless of race, language or
religion, The Straits Times reported M...
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