Lee Kuan Yew has made an unparalleled contribution to the development of his country. Indeed, few leaders have had such a singular impact on their country’s history. Under his leadership, Singapore became a stable and secure independent country, moved from a state of extreme economic vulnerability to its current position as the region’s most vibrant economy whose people enjoy standards of education, health and welfare among the highest in the world. One quality of Lee Kuan Yew's leadership that is worthy of special mention is his relentless and extraordinarily successful drive to eliminate corruption in government.
Along with his enormous contributions to the development of Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew has also been an important statesman in our region. He played a key role in the normalisation of difficult relations with Indonesia and the foundation of ASEAN in the 1960s, the development of APEC in the 1980s and 1990s, and the nurturing of a sense of community across East Asia in recent years while not neglecting the importance of keeping the United States actively involved in the region.
Lee Kuan Yew has spoken out strongly on a range of major international issues, ranging from Asian values, democracy, the international Chinese diaspora, and the place of both China and the United States in our emerging regional order. Many people have contested the views he has set forth, but no one has doubted his sincerity, his integrity or his commitment to advancing the causes of peace and prosperity.
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Lee Kuan Yew was born 16 September 1923, he is a Singaporean statesman. He was the first Prime Minister of the Republic of Singapore, from 1959 to 1990, and was one of the longest serving Prime Ministers in the world.
As the co-founder and first secretary-general of the People's Action Party (PAP), he led the party to a landslide victory in 1959, oversaw the separation of Singapore from Malaysia in 1965 and its subsequent transformation from a relatively underdeveloped colonial outpost with no natural resources into a "First World", Asian Tiger. He has remained one of the most influential political figures in South-East Asia.
Under the administration of Singapore's second prime minister, Goh Chok Tong, he served as Senior Minister. He currently holds the post of Minister Mentor, a post created when his son, Lee Hsien Loong, became the nation's third prime minister on 12 August 2004. Because of his continued Ministerial posts, he became one of the longest serving ministers in the world. In 2007, as Minister Mentor, he told the International Herald Tribune that Singapore is "ideology-free".                                                       

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Dr. Goh Keng Swee was the second Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore between 1973 and 1984 and a member of Parliament for the Kreta Ayer constituency for a quarter of a century.
From 1945 onwards, he worked for the Department of Social Welfare, and eventually become its director.
In 1958, he resigned from the Civil Service to work full-time for the People's Action Party, becoming a key member and later vice-chairman of its Central Executive Commitee.
The following year, he successfully contested the Kreta Ayer seat in the 1959 general election for the Legislative Assembly and joined the first government of Prime Minister, Lee Kuan Yew, as a Minister for Finance.
Upon Singapore's independence on 9 August 1965, he became the nation's first Minister for the Interior and Defence.
He then served as Finance Minister (1967 - 1970), Minister for Defence (1970-1979) and Minister for Education (1979-1984).
After his retirement from politics, he continued to be active in public life, serving as Deputy Chairman of the Government  of Singapore Investment Corporation (1981-1994); Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Institute of East Asian Philosophies (1983–1992) and Executive Chairman and Chairman of the Board of Governors of its successor, the Institute of East Asian Political Economy (1992–1995); Economic Adviser to the State Council of the People's Republic of China on coastal development and Adviser on tourism (1985); Deputy Chairman of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (1985–1992); Chairman of the Singapore Totalisator Board (1988–1994); adviser to the United Overseas Bank group (from 1993); Chairman of N.M Rothschild & Sons (Singapore) Ltd. (from 1994); and Vice-Chairman of Hong Leong Asia Ltd. (from 1995).

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In the role of the Finance Minister, he assumed stewardship of Singapore's economy.
As a budget deficit of S$14 million was forecast that year, he introduced stringent fiscal discipline which including cutting civil service salaries.
As a result of these measures, he was able to announce at the end of the year when delivering the budget that the Government had achieved a surplus of $1 million.
He initiated the setting up of the Economic Development Board which was established in August 1961 to attract foreign multinational corporations to invest in Singapore.
The next year, he started the development of the Jurong industrial estate on the western end of the island which was then a swamp, offering incentives to local and foreign business to locate there.



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