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World Cities Summit 2024 - strengthening collective action for resilient and regenerative cities
SINGAPORE - ACN Newswire - 26 June 2024 - The World Cities Summit (WCS) 2024 concluded with about 3,500 delegates and trade visitors, from c...
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US needs to rethink its democracy-versus-authoritarianism view of China rivalry: professor
The US should re-examine its "dangerous" democracy-versus-authoritarianism framing of its rivalry with China because it risks nudging Beijin...
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Kwa Geok Choo (Chinese: 柯玉芝; pinyin: Kē Yùzhī; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Koa Gio̍k-tsi; 21 December 1920 – 2 October 2010) was a Singaporean lawyer. She was the wife of Lee Kuan Yew, the founding Prime Minister of Singapore and the mother of Lee Hsien Loong, Lee Hsien Yang, and Lee Wei Ling.
Mar 11, 2021 · Kwa Geok Choo was a lawyer, co-founder of Lee & Lee, and the wife of Singapore's first prime minister Lee Kuan Yew. She was the first woman in Malaya to get a first class honours law degree and helped draft the PAP Constitution and water supply provisions.
May 19, 2022 · A monologue by Tan Rui Shan tells the story of the late Mrs Lee Kuan Yew, a lawyer, political wife and mother of two prime ministers. The play, directed by Goh Boon Teck, runs from Jul 8 to 31 at the Victoria Theatre.
- Sharon Salim
- Her intelligence was phenomenal. At 16 years old, Mdm Kwa topped the whole of Malaya in the 1936 Senior Cambridge examination. Mdm Kwa then became the only girl to enrol in Raffles Institution.
- She made groundbreaking achievements beyond her studies. Mdm Kwa was one out of only three women called to bar in London in 1950, along with five other Malayan law students which included her husband.
- She supported Mr Lee as a loving wife and a wise advisor. Even before Mr Lee founded the People’s Action Party (PAP), Mdm Kwa was already assisting him with his work.
- She had great foresight. The late Mr Lee Kuan Yew spoke of Mdm Kwa’s foresight in his touching eulogy to her, She had an uncanny ability to read the character of a person.
Mar 26, 2015 · Why you can trust SCMP. "Without her, I would be a different man, with a different life", the late founding prime minister of Singapore Lee Kuan Yew said in his eulogy for his wife Kwa Geok...
- SCMP Reporters
Feb 14, 2020 · Learn how the late Singapore Prime Minister and his wife, who was also a lawyer, met, married and supported each other through various challenges. Read about their academic rivalry, secret wedding, and Mr Lee's grief after her death.
Oct 5, 2010 · CSIS expresses its condolences on the death of Madam Kwa Geok Choo, the wife of Lee Kuan Yew and mother of Lee Hsien Loong. The report also covers the latest developments in Southeast Asia, including the South China Sea disputes, ASEAN human rights, and the first ADMM+ meeting.
