Dr Albert Winsemius, our Dutch economic advisor, first came to Singapore in 1960 when he led a United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) mission to advise us on industrialisation. I remember his first report to me in 1961 when he laid two preconditions for Singapore's​ success: first, to eliminate the communists​ who made any economic progress impossible; second, not to remove the statue of Stamford Raffles.

To keep Raffles' statue was easy.

My colleagues and I had no desire to rewrite the past and perpetuate ourselves by renaming streets or buildings or putting our faces on postage stamps or currency notes.

From Third World to First

-Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew

Singapore Press Holdings / Times Editions

#கண்டபடி_புரிஞ்சிக்கோங்க

எனக்கென்னமோ இந்த பேரண்ட்ஸ்தான் குழந்தைகளை நைஸாக TV பார்க்க அனுப்பி விடுகிறார்களோ'னு doubt வருது...

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Umanath Selvan

மழைக்கால இரவுகளில்  அதிகமாக செய்திச்சேனல்களை பார்க்கின்றார்கள் குழந்தைகள்

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#இல்லறமதிகாரம்

தலைவி, ''ஹலோ... உங்க மீட்டிங் முடிஞ்சுதா..?''

தலைவன், ''முடிஞ்சுது... இதோ கிளம்பிட்டேன்...''

தலைவி, ''எல்லாரும் கிளம்பிட்டாங்களா..?''

தலைவன், ''யெஸ்... நாந்தான் கடைசி...''

தலைவி, ''சரி... அப்ப வர்றப்ப ஒரு குயர் A4 sheet, ஒரு pencil box, ரெண்டு sharpener கொண்டு வாங்க...''

Prayers be like: யப்பா ஐயப்பா... அடுத்த தடவை இவன்டேருந்து என்னை காப்பாத்துப்பா...

To have both brains and brawn, Keng Swee and I started to induct some of our ablest students into the Singapore Armed Forces SAF in 1971. We selected some of the best officer cadets each year for SAF overseas scholarships to study at Oxbridge and other universities in Britain where they did a full academic course in the humanities, engineering or the prifessions. During their student years they received full pay as lieutenants, besides a scholarship that paid for all fees, board and lodging and other needs abroad. They had to sign a bond to serve for eight years after graduation. But within that period, they would be sent to America or Britain on two, often three courses: first, specialist training whether in artillery, armour or signals; in mid-career, staff and command in America or Britain; and finally a course in public or business administration at a top American university such as Harvard or Stanford.

By 1995 four former SAF scholars, have risen to senior positions, entered politics and later became cabinet ministers.

From Third World to First

-Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew

Singapore Press Holdings / Times Editions

Photo: October 8, 2015. Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean meeting Singapore Armed Forces soldiers undergoing jungle training in Temburong, Brunei, yesterday. He was on a four-day visit that ended yesterday as part of the 3rd Young Leaders' Programme, jointly organised by Singapore and Brunei to encourage exchanges between the younger generation of political office-holders. The team included Minister for Culture, Community and Youth Grace Fu, Minister for the Environment and Water Resources Masagos Zulkifli, Senior Ministers of State Indranee Rajah and Sim Ann, and Minister of State Chee Hong Tat.

ஏன்டா... என் மொபைல் make and model எனக்குத் தெரியாதாடா... இதுக்கெதுக்குடா SMSஉம் Appஉம்...

Sorry Mr Trump... I used to undermine your talent on that Mexican border wall...

And yes, we're going to have wall along our bullet trains too...

Indian Railways to build 3,000-km wall to guard tracks, keep away people 

//After the incident in Amritsar last month, when a train mowed down 60 people who had gathered on the tracks to watch a Ravan effigy being burnt at a Dussehra celebration, the Indian Railways has decided to build 3,000 km of walls to fence its tracks and ward off trespassers in residential areas. Railway Minister Piyush Goyal is learnt to have taken the decision days after the Amritsar mishap. The Railways has estimated that the project will cost about Rs 2,500 crore.//

//The Commission of Railway Safety stipulates that in order to obtain safety clearance for train speeds of 160 kmph, the railway tracks need to be fenced or walled.//

//A part of Budget 2018-19, these works, estimated to cost about Rs 650 crore, were being funded by the Rashtriya Rail Sanrakshana Kosh — the Rs 1 lakh crore special safety fund to be utilised in five years. Officials said tenders have already been floated, and are likely to be finalised by next month.//

I feared that slowly but inexorably British influence would decline, and American influence expand. For my generation born and bred in empire, it was not an easy change. I had to come to terms with American power without a British buffer. The British had enforced their will with a certain civility. The Americans were different, as I could see from the way they dealt with South Vietnamese leaders, and even with Thai and Filipino leaders who were not in as parlous a position as those in Saigon. America was a power on the ascendant, with bulging muscles and a habit of flexing them.

From Third World to First

-Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew

Singapore Press Holdings / Times Editions

PC: gettyimages - Lee Kuan Yew and Lyndon Johnson

I had many pressing concern: first, to get international recognition for Singapore’s independence, including our membership of the United Nations. I chose Sinnathamby Rajaratnam (affectionately called Raja by all of us) as foreign minister. He was eminently suitable, with anti-colonial nationalist credentials from his student days in London before and during the war, but no rabid radical. Friendly, urbane, sincere, he had the right balance between standing up for principles and the need for diplomatic compromise. He was to be much liked and respected by all those he worked with at home and abroad. As messages of recognition flowed in, Toh Chin Chye, the deputy prime minister, and Raja as foreign minister set off to New York to take our seat at the UN that September of 1965.

From Third World to First

-Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew

Singapore Press Holdings / Times Editions

Photo: Minister for Foreign Affairs S. Rajaratnam (left) with Ambassador Tommy Koh, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, at the UN General Assembly in New York on Sept 30, 1974.

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