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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...
Jan 20, 2016 · 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.
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...
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.
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).
Professor Penner was appointed the Kwa Geok Choo Professor of Property Law in July 2017, succeeding Professor Kevin Gray. He is also the Vice Dean for Research at the NUS Law, and works primarily in the area of property and trusts, as well as law and theory.
Oct 2, 2010 · Singapore. (CNN) -- The wife of Singapore's first prime minister died at her home Saturday at the age of 89. A private funeral for Kwa Geok Choo will take place next Wednesday, the prime...
