Singapore weighs preserving Lee Kuan Yew's home as national monument


FILE PHOTO: A view of an empty guard post outside former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew's Oxley Road residence in Singapore June 14, 2017. REUTERS/Edgar Su/File Photo

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore's heritage board will assess if founding Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew's home should be preserved as a national monument, the culture ministry said on Thursday.

The late statesman's youngest child Lee Hsien Yang applied on Oct. 21 to demolish the single-storey bungalow on Oxley Road in central Singapore in line with his father's wishes.

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