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Past Mason Fellows include Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, and outgoing Bolivian President Eduardo Rodriguez Veltze...
...PERSONAL LEE TIME: Speaking of your son, the Lee family is in such positions of power in Singapore that there has to be some resentment. LEE: In 1984 [then Defense Minister] Goh Chok Tong was looking for potential ministers to be M.P.s. He persuaded [Lee Hsien Loong], then a brigadier-general, to stand for elections. I said to [Hsien Loong]: You need to remarry?his first wife had died in '82?going into politics will make it more difficult. He decided to go into politics in 1984, and he remarried in 1985. In 1992 he had leukemia. His world crashed...
...more concerned with China's "peaceful rise" and the threat of militant Islam. Asked about Singapore's future development over the next 10 years, Lee shrugs. "My son will do what he wants to do with his team," he says, referring to Singapore's current Prime Minister, Lee Hsien Loong. "Let him decide," the elder Lee adds later. "It's his call...
...have flashing lights and dancing girls on the fa?ade and next door to that you have banks and the banking and financial center, I'm not sure we will feel happy about it." LEE HSIEN LOONG, Singapore's Prime Minister, on strict guidelines for two proposed casinos in the city-state. Las Vegas impresario Steve Wynn has accused the government of micromanaging bids to build the casinos...
...served as high commissioner to Malaysia and ambassador to South Korea and Japan before being tapped to become the city-state's fourth President. Wee "took to diplomacy like a duck to water," said Deputy Prime Minister Shanmugam Jayakumar, and was eulogized by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong as a "true Singaporean...