Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew remains critically ill in intensive care


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  • Thursday, 19 Mar 2015

Singapore's former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew speaks during his book launch at the Istana in Singapore August 6, 2013. REUTERS/Edgar Su

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore's first prime minister, Lee Kuan Yew, remains critically ill in intensive care, the prime minister's office said on Thursday.

Seen as the founding father of modern Singapore, which he led from 1959 until 1990, the 91-year-old Lee has been in hospital with severe pneumonia since Feb. 5.

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