Source: Global Times
By Jia Cheng
Lee Kuan Yew, the man who came to symbolize Singapore since its independence, stepped down from the country's cabinet Saturday, ceding the leadership to his son, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, after more than half a century.
"After a watershed general election, we have decided to leave the cabinet and have a completely younger team of ministers to connect to and engage with this young generation in shaping the future of our Singapore," the Xinhua News Agency quoted Lee and Singapore's former senior minister Goh Chok Tong as saying in a joint resignation statement.
Lee, 87, has been known as minister mentor and served as prime minister from 1959 to 1990, while Goh has held the position of senior minister since 2004. Both won Parliament seats in the recent election.
"Lee has led Singapore to economic prosperity when he was in power," Cheng Bifan, a researcher of the Asia-Pacific Research Institute at the China Institutes of International Studies, told the Global Times.
Close cooperation on economy and trade between Singapore and many powers, such as Japan, China, and Western countries, has brought a lot of benefits to the country's development, he added.
The move comes one week after the parliamentary election, which saw opposition parties make their most effective challenge yet as the ruling People's Action Party (PAP) suffered from its worst election result since independence.
The ruling PAP, which has been in power since Singapore became an independent state in 1959, won 60 percent of the vote, its lowest-ever tally down from 66.6 percent in 2006, Xinhua said.
Agencies contributed to this story
6 comments:
Will Hoon Xen resign for the sake of his country?
Sva doesn't mind, sva wants to be on the Angkutt until 99y/o.
When the Pekinoir resigns from this world?
the man is very old and can hardly walk any more, so, he got to resign, you know! i told you, nobody can live forever on this planet, really! wake up already, stop being so greedy and evil, ok!
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everybody have children, let the children grow up and fend and work and support for themselves, ok! otherwise, they will never learn to contribute to the cambodia or the world, for that matter, if parents kept on spoiling or pampering them for life, you know! learn from mr warren buffet, the richest man in america, he told his children, grandchildren, etc, etc to work and fend and support themselves; he does not like to spoil or pamper them, really! it's all in the thinking or the mentality of the people, you know! if you don't encourage your children to learn and see the world, and help others, etc, you are not learning and be enlightened as the world is changing, etc! cambodia can sure adopt new paradigm shift if we are to be enlightened and smarter and wiser, etc, etc, ok! what happened if you pampered your kids too much and you die of something, who's going to pamper them like you? no one, ok! wake up already, people!nothing is forever, ok! know the meaning of karma, ok! do good receive good, do bad, receive bad result, etc,etc,,, it's the cause and effect thing as they called in the western world, but in cambodia, we called it karma or "kam" in khmer language, ok! wake up already, ok!
do the right thing and good thing by helping those who are less fortunate than us and keep teaching and educating people to understand and know about life, etc... you will be appreciated, i'm sure! god bless all.
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