The Singapore Story
by Lee Kuan Yew · first published 1998
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The personal account of the life of Lee Kuan Yew. Information on Singapore's politics, history and much more.
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You may enjoy Lee Kuan Yew's biography, The Singapore Story, and to a lesser extent his more recent Conversations with Tom Plate. There is a lot in common between Xi and Lee's thinking and way of doing things. Reading the BBC and Wikileaks texts, the events fit…
on “The Thoughts of Chairman Xi” ↗The Singapore Story - Lee Kuan Yew Biography of Malcolm X Deng Xiaopeng and the Transformation of China The Power Broker
on “Ask HN: Biographies recommendations – both Westerner and Non-westerner” ↗Probably The Singapore Story by Lee Kuan Yew or Titan by Ron Chernow. To me great biographies are more addicting than great TV.
on “Ask HN: What's the "best" book you've ever read?” ↗If you haven't, go read "The Singapore Story" https://annas-archive.org/md5/6578558e0416e264a39da0448003ec... If you're bored, skip to the Japanese invasion Chapter and then read on. Many unique things happened in Singapore to make Singapore, Singapore.
on “Singapore to cane scammers as billions lost in financial crimes” ↗…(book a friend of mine wrote, hard to describe, but suprised me at how good it is) Adam Hochschild - "King Leopold's Ghost" (how the Congo became a colony) Jessica Livingston - "Founders at Work" "The Singapore Story: The memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew" (a little dry / long at points, but otherwise very instructive) "Listening spirituality, Vol. 1: Personal Spiritual Practices Among Friends" (a book about Quakerism that…
on “Ask HN: Books you read in 2015?” ↗-The Rational Optimist -Hacking Sales -The Singapore Story -Thinking fast and slow -The Mating Mind -Blitzscaling
on “Ask HN: Books you plan to read in 2020?” ↗…(RIP) for exiling communists was that Maoist China was aggressively attempting to expand into the region. For example, see the Hong Kong bombing campaign of 1967 [1]. According to, amongst others, "The Singapore Story" [2], he was initially contacted by the Communists to represent them as a "moderate" leftist. His manoeuvering to win the 1959 election (scaring many businesses away to KL, thinking communism had won)…
on “PM of Singapore Shares His C++ Sudoku Solver Source Code” ↗From his memoirs "The Singapore Story", Chapter 6, "Winning Over the Unions", on the ports: > Recounting Britain's prodigal years of crippling dock strikes which led to the devaluation of the pound sterling in 1967, I warned, "If that happens…
on “Tesla strike widens as Swedish union expands blockade” ↗