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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 66. Chapters: Ahmad Ibrahim (politician), Devan Nair, Gan Kim Yong, George Yeo, Goh Chok Tong, Heng Swee Keat, Howe Yoon Chong, K. Shanmugam, Khaw Boon Wan, Lee Boon Yang, Lee Hsien Loong, Lee Kuan Yew, Lee Yock Suan, Lim Boon Heng, Lim Hng Kiang, Lim Hwee Hua, Lim Kim San, Lim Swee Say, List of past members of the Government of Singapore, Lui Tuck Yew, Mah Bow Tan, Ng Eng Hen, Ong Teng Cheong, Othman Wok, Raymond Lim, Richard Hu, S. Dhanabalan, S. Iswaran, S. Jayakumar, Second Lee Hsien Loong Cabinet, Teo Chee Hean, Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Third Lee Hsien Loong Cabinet, Tony Tan (Singaporean president), Vivian Balakrishnan, Wong Kan Seng, Yaacob Ibrahim, Yeo Cheow Tong, Yeo Ning Hong. Excerpt: Lee Kuan Yew (born Harry Lee Kuan Yew, 16 September 1923), is a Singaporean politician. He was the first Prime Minister of the Republic of Singapore, governing for three decades. He is also widely recognized as the founding father of modern Singapore. As the co-founder and first General Secretary of the People's Action Party (PAP), he led the party to eight victories from 1959 to 1990, and oversaw the separation of Singapore from Malaysia in 1965 and its subsequent transformation from a relatively underdeveloped colonial outpost with no natural resources into a "First World" Asian Tiger. He is one of the most influential political figures in Southeast Asia. Singapore's second prime minister Goh Chok Tong appointed him Senior Minister in 1990. He held the advisory post of Minister Mentor, created by his son Lee Hsien Loong, when the latter became the nation's third prime minister in August 2004. With his successive ministerial positions spanning over 50 years, Lee is also one of history's longest-serving ministers. On 14 May 2011, Lee and Goh Chok Tong announced their retirement from the cabinet after the 2011 general election. According to his autobiography, Lee is a fourth-generation Singaporean. His Hakka great-grandfather, Lee Bok Boon, who was born in 1846, emigrated from Dapu County, Guangdong province, China, to Singapore in 1863. He married a shopkeeper's daughter, Seow Huan Nio, but returned to China in 1882, leaving behind his wife and three children. Lee Bok Boon built a little manor in his home village, and bought himself a mandarinate, but he died just two years after his return. Lee Kuan Yew's grandfather was Lee Hoon Leong, born in Singapore in 1871 and a British subject. He was educated in English at Raffles Institution to standard V, which is equivalent to lower secondary school in Singapore today. Lee Hoon Leong then worked as a dispenser, an unqualified pharmacist, and later was the purser on a steamship of the Heap Eng Moh Shipping Line, then ow
