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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 stellar student who topped the whole of Malaya in the 1936 Senior Cambridge examination. Then 16 years old, she joined a special class at Raffles Institution for students competing for the prestigious Queen’s Scholarship; she was the only girl in the boys’ school.
May 19, 2022 · She was the wife of one prime minister in Singapore, and the mother of another. Now, the life story of Kwa Geok Choo will be told in Toy Factory Productions’ eponymous monologue performed by Tan...
Oct 1, 2018 · Today (2 Oct) marks the 8th anniversary of the passing of Mdm Kwa Geok Choo, wife to the late Mr Lee Kuan Yew. As we look back at her loving relationship with her husband, we break down 5 facts that made her a stellar force behind the success of a respected national leader.
Mar 24, 2015 · But nothing seemed to comfort Mr Lee in the days after Madam Kwa Geok Choo, his wife of 63 years, his best friend and confidante, died on Oct 2, 2010. He slept erratically.
Feb 14, 2020 · Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s founding Prime Minister, and Kwa Geok Choo, who was his partner in every sense of the word for over five decades.
Lee Kuan Yew (left) and his wife, Kwa Geok Choo (centre), attends a dinner at the Foreign Correspondents' Club. Photo: Benson Lo. Kwa's health slowly deteriorated after 2003 following a number...
Jul 31, 2022 · Everyone knows her as the wife of Lee Kuan Yew and mother of Lee Hsien Loong. But what do we know about Kwa Geok Choo? This monologue follows her from girlhood and early romance to life as political wife and mother; and top conveyancing lawyer and main breadwinner of the Lee Family.
Oct 5, 2010 · Singapore mourns for Mrs. Lee. Madam Kwa Geok Choo, the wife of Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew and mother of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, passed away peacefully at home on October 2, 2010, at 5.40 pm (Singapore time).
SINGAPORE (AP) — Kwa Geok Choo, the wife of Singapore's founding father, Lee Kuan Yew, who described her as his "tower of strength," and mother of the city-state's current prime minister, died...
