Britain grants political asylum to son of Singapore’s founder

In a bitter family dispute, Lee Hsien Yang clashed with his brother, former Prime Minister and government strongman Lee Hsien Loong, for years over the fate of his father’s house, which he ordered demolished.

Lee Hsien Yang, son of the founder of the city-state of Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew afp

Pablo M. Diez

10/23/2024

Updated at 5:20 p.m.

Even in the best families there are fights between siblings. here and inside Singaporewho bemusedly reflect on the unpleasant disputes that the children of the ‘fathers and founders’ of this small and prosperous Asian city-state have faced for years, Lee Kuan Yew

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