Son of Singapore's founder says he is now political refugee as family spat snowballs
Lee Hsien Yang, the youngest son of the late founder of modern Singapore Lee Kuan Yew, said on Tuesday he is now a political refugee, in the latest twist in a high-profile feud in the city-state's most famous family.
Son of Singapore's Founder Says He Has Been Granted Political Asylum in the UK
Lee Hsien Yang, the estranged brother of former Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, says he is now a “political refugee” after the British government granted him asylum from what he described as
Singapore Ex-Leader’s Brother Gets Political Asylum in UK
The estranged brother of former Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said he has been given political asylum by the UK government on grounds of a “well-founded fear” of persecution. Lee Hsien Yang, 67, said in a Facebook post he had become a ...
Son of founder of modern Singapore says he is now a political refugee
Lee Hsien Yang, the youngest son of the founder of modern Singapore Lee Kuan Yew and estranged brother of former premier Lee Hsien Loong, said on Tuesday he is now a political refugee from Singapore under the U.
Lee Hsien Yang says he is a ‘political refugee from Singapore’, sought UK asylum status
The brother of former Singapore prime minister Lee Hsien Loong says the UK has assessed he faces ‘a well-founded risk of persecution’.
Son of Singapore founder Lee Kuan Yew granted UK asylum
The son of the late Lee Kuan Yew, the modern-day founder of Singapore, has quietly been granted political asylum in Britain, in an implicit condemnation of the civil liberties offered by the city-state.
Singapore’s Pritam Singh case spawns ‘lao hong’ biscuits, spilled tea memes as trial adjourned
Netizens seize on buzzwords, lighter moments in the trial for memes including ‘Gigachad’ references and return of Low Thia ...
Shell says most oil around Bukom, Singapore cleaned up after leak
Shell said on Tuesday that most of the oil leak from a land-based pipeline at Shell Energy and Chemicals Park Singapore on ...
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Singapore grants conditional approval for Sun Cable to import 1.75GW of electricity from Australia
The project to transmit solar power from Australia to Singapore has been revived more than 20 months after Sun Cable went ...
CNN gets rare look inside Singapore’s prison where inmates face execution by hanging for drug trafficking
In a CNN exclusive, Ivan Watson visits gets a rare look inside Singapore’s criminal justice system and reports from the ...
Singapore agencies say making progress cleaning up oil leak
Singapore agencies said on Tuesday they were making progress in cleaning up an oil leak and there had been no new sightings ...
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Singapore's Max Maeder nominated for young sailor of the year at 2024 World Sailing Awards
SINGAPORE: Singapore kitefoiler Max Maeder is among the nominees for the inaugural Young World Sailor of the Year award at ...
Colonial Botanical Thriller ‘Isle of Ease,’ Backed By Singapore’s IMDA, Launches at Mipcom (EXCLUSIVE)
Singapore's Peddling Pictures, the company behind docu-series 'Riot Island,' is presenting its new six-part fiction series ...
India, Singapore to step up defence ties in key areas
This comes in the backdrop of India marking a decade of its Act East policy in which Singapore has played a key role ...