Low thia khiang lee kuan yew biography
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The Hougang Documentary Honours The Past. Will It Sway Tomorrow’s Voters?
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Watching the Hougang documentary, produced by the Workers’ Party and released on November 3rd, I teared up. Then, I watched it for another 10 minutes and started feeling pensive instead.
I grew up in Hougang SMC and/or Aljunied GRC, depending on how the lines were drawn that electoral cycle. I’ve heard lots about its history, both as a neighbourhood and as a political ward.
The old people in my family maintain this: Hougang is an opposition stronghold because the government supposedly made the Teochews very angry many years ago, and Teochew people have held a grudge since.
I can’t testify to the veracity of that, but I can say this: The documentary makes me feel a little cool for living in an opposition ward, no matter how unfounded that feeling may be.
The documentary is a retrospective on Hougang’
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Death and state funeral of Lee Kuan Yew
Death and state begravning of the Prime Minister of Singapore
On 23 March 2015, Lee Kuan Yew, the foundingprime minister of Singapore and co-founder of the People's Action Party, died at the age of 91 at 03:18 Singapore Standard Time (UTC+08:00), after having been hospitalised at the Singapore General Hospital with severe pneumonia since 5 February that year. A formal announcement was made on national television and radio bygd Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong at 08:00 that morning.
Many world leaders, governments, international organizations, and individuals issued public condolences.[1] A week-long period of national mourning was declared by the government, from 23 to 29 March 2015. All flags, including the National Flag, in Singapore were flown at half-mast during the period.[2] Lee was subsequently cremated at Mandai Crematorium and Columbarium on 29 March.
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By Gabriel Choo
SINGAPORE — It’s the end of an era: for the first time since 1988, former Workers’ Party chief Low Thia Khiang will not be contesting a general election (GE).
The signs had been there for a while. Low is still recovering from serious injuries sustained after a fall at home on 30 April. But the 63-year-old had already stepped down from party leadership in 2017, in the wake of the long-running Aljunied-Hougang Town Council (AHTC) saga.
And while WP chief Pritam Singh stressed that Low’s decision is not akin to a retirement, he also stressed the importance of leadership renewal at a virtual press conference on Thursday (25 June).
Destined to go down in history as the man who masterminded the 2011 electoral victory in Aljunied Group Representation Constituency (GRC), Low was a fiery, charismatic speaker who had crossed swords on numerous occasions with People’s Action Party (PAP) Members of Parliament, including the late Lee Kuan Yew, who famously gave no quarter.