LKY made Singapore rich but not happy

comments     Andy Mukherjee, Reuters     Published     Updated

Lee Kuan Yew presided over the making of modern-day Singapore. The city-state's founding prime minister, who has died aged 91, transformed a tropical island with few resources except a strategically located port into a super-wealthy hub of banking, trading, oil refining and even drugmaking.

But for all his undoubted achievements, the nation he leaves behind is far from happy...

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