Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore's first prime minister, dies aged 91


  • Nation
  • Monday, 23 Mar 2015

SINGAPORE: Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore's founding father, has died.

Lee, who would have turned 92 this September, died at the Singapore General Hospital where he had been warded for severe pneumonia since Feb 5.

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