The famiLEE feud: Lee Hsien Yang & his wife in Hong Kong

Lee Hsien Yang flies to Hong Kong with wife

According to a HK01, an online publication from Hong Kong, Lee Hsien Yang flew into Hong Kong today with his wife, Mrs Lee Suet Fern.

He told reporters that he is in the Special Administrative Region of China to explore with friends, and refused to talk about his ongoing dispute with his brother, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.

In a statement he issued with his sister 10 days ago denouncing his elder brother, Mr Lee said that he feels compelled to leave Singapore for the ‘foreseeable future’.

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HK Media: Lee Hsien Yang and Lim Suet Fern are in Hong Kong

The latest update today from Hong Kong’s paparazzos is that Lee Hsien Yang and wife Suet Fern have landed in Hong Kong.

Interesting choice of location, given our recent issues with Hong Kong’s sovereign lord.

So now that kind of answers if they will stick around to hear what Parliament will hear and say on 3rd July.

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Lee Hsien Yang is in Hong Kong: report

Lee Hsien Yang, who has been embroiled in a high-profile feud with his brother Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, is reportedly in Hong Kong.

Online publication HK01 reported that Hsien Yang and his wife Suet Fern landed at Hong Kong International Airport on Sunday afternoon (25 June). At around 2.50pm, the couple emerged from customs by themselves but were not greeted by anyone.

Asked by reporters what he was doing in the territory, Hsien Yang replied that he was there to see friends, but would not comment on the ongoing Lee family feud. Asked when he intended to leave Hong Kong, he replied, “None of your business.”

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Lee Hsien Yang, estranged brother of Singapore PM, seen at Hong Kong airport

Lee Hsien Yang, the estranged brother of Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, flew to Hong Kong over the weekend as a highly publicised family feud between the siblings continues to unfold in the city state.

Lee Hsien Yang and wife, Lim Suet Fern, boarded a Cathay Pacific flight and arrived at Hong Kong International Airport on Sunday.

The purpose of their visit is unknown, but when approached by reporters, Lee, a former chief of the nation’s telecommunications giant Singtel, only said that he was “visiting friends”, according to online media outlet HK01.

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Lee Hsien Yang & his wife are now in Hong Kong

Lee Hsien Yang and his wife, Lee Suet Fern, flew to Hong Kong on Sunday, June 25, in the midst of the ongoing Lee family feud over the fate of the late Lee Kuan Yew’s house at 38 Oxley Road.

According to a Hong Kong media outlet, the couple arrived at Hong Kong International Airport today via a Thai Airways flight.

When asked, Hsien Yang was quoted telling Hong Kong media that he was there to visit a friend and declined to comment on his ongoing feud with his brother, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. He also declined to tell reporters when he would be leaving Hong Kong.

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Hongkong media reports the arrival of Lee Hsien Yang and his wife at Hongkong international airport

Hongkong media, HK01 has reported that Mr Lee Hsien Yang and his wife, Mrs Lee Suet Fern arrived at the Hong Kong International Airport on Sunday afternoon. According to the media outlet, Mr Lee said that he is visiting friends in Hong Kong but did not reply other questions.

Mr Lee, who is the son of Singapore’s founding Prime Minister, Lee Kuan Yew, has been in the news due to the allegations made against his brother, Lee Hsien Loong for abusing his position as Prime Minister for personal agenda. On 14 June, he and his sister, Dr Lee Weiling had issued a public statement expressing their non confidence in their brother and their worry about Singapore’s future in his hands.

“We are concerned that the system has few checks and balances to prevent the abuse of government. We feel big brother omnipresent. We fear the use of the organs of state against us and Hsien Yang’s wife, Suet Fern.” wrote the two in the published statement.

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Lee Hsien Yang spotted in Hong Kong along with his wife

Mr Lee Hsien Yang, who has been embroiled in a public feud with his brother, PM Lee Hsien Loong over their late father's house at 38, Oxley Road, was spotted in Hong Kong on Sunday (Jun 25) after taking a flight from Singapore.

Hong Kong media reported that Mr Lee Hsien Yang was accompanied by his wife, Mrs Lee Suet Fern, & that no one was at the airport to receive them.

He told Hong Kong media he was in the city to visit friends, & declined to comment on his dispute with PM Lee.

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Lee Hsien Yang and his wife are in HK now!

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李顯揚偕妻突來港稱探友　與李顯龍不和　曾言逃離新加坡

新加坡總理李顯龍弟弟李顯揚與妻子突然來港，他們乘坐的國泰航空航班編號CX736，在星期日下午約2時抵達香港國際機場。到2時50分，李顯揚步出接機大堂，當時身邊只得太太一人，沒有任何人隨同，亦沒有任何人接機。

《香港01》記者上前打招呼，李顯龍表示自己來港會友（to see friends），但他不肯回應與兄長李顯龍的糾紛。當記者問及何時離港時，他回答說：「與你們無關。」（none of your business）隨後，李顯揚即偕妻步往乘車方向，離開機場。

下周六（7月1日）正值香港回歸20周年，有指李顯揚此時來港，保安方面問題也會成為關注點之一。

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Four questions for Indranee Rajah on the ‘Oxley Dispute’

One of the points she raised was the manner in which the 7th Will was drafted. Indranee said “The concerns raised about the 7th Will can be found in the summary of Lee Hsien Loong’s Statutory Declarations. Essentially, they relate to whether the reinsertion of the Demolition Clause was brought to Mr Lee Kuan Yew’s attention and whether he was given sufficient time to review the Will.” Our questions for Indranee:

• Well, probate was granted on the will. Essentially, probate refers to a legal process where a will is “proved” in a court and accepted as a valid public document that it is the true last testament of the deceased. PM Lee had the chance and right to contest the will but he did not. Surely the will could not have been that dodgy if PM Lee passed on the opportunity to question the will in court?
• In any case, the validity of the will should be debated in court, not dissected publicly by an office holder on Facebook. If you are so sure about it, take it to court, lah. Look at the past record; if they knew that they had a sure-win case, they would have happily sued already.
• I am also curious why Indranee only questioned the validity of the 7th Will. After all, she says “The Demolition Clause was in the 1st – 4th Wills. It was removed in the 5th and 6th Will.” So the radical switch happened from the 4th to 5th Will. Why was the Demolition Clause removed then? It also does not square with what Lee Kuan Yew has always maintained – he wants 38 Oxley Road to be demolished after his death. So perhaps the absence of the Demolition Cause in the 4th and 5th Wills deserves as much attention as its insertion into the 7th Will?
• Indranee also implies that Lim Suet Fern could have been the lawyer that drafted the 7th Will. She said, “If the lawyer referred to… is Mrs Lee Suet Fern, then certain questions will arise. Under our law, the lawyer drafting a will is required to be independent. If the lawyer has an interest in the will, the lawyer must make sure the person making the will gets independent advice.” She added that, “As Mrs Lee Suet Fern is his wife, if she prepared the 7th Will then the question which will arise is what independent advice MM received?”

Now that is a very serious allegation to imply. I hope Indranee has some evidence to back this up. No one embroiled in this dispute has so far confirmed who was the lawyer that drafted the 7th Will. What we know for certain is that it was not Kwa Kim Li, managing partner of the Lee & Lee law firm.

This sounds like professional misconduct at the very least. If no independent advice was given to Lee Kuan Yew, and Lee Suet Fern drafted the 7th Will, this would have been a clear conflict of interest as Lee Suet Fern would have been a beneficiary of the 7th Will as she is married to Lee Hsien Yang.

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Indranee Rajah 23 June at 02:00

4 Things You Should Know about the Oxley Dispute

As Singaporeans we are all saddened by the Oxley dispute. I am particularly saddened because I looked after MM’s constituency in his final years and got to see at close quarters what a great man he was. I know how much this would have grieved MM and Mrs Lee.
People have expressed confusion about the things which have been said. Many are trying to make sense of it all.

The key to understanding this matter is first to get a handle on the issues and some important facts. Here are 4 things you should know about the Oxley dispute.

• What does the 7th Will actually say?
• Why does the government need to be involved in what happens to 38 Oxley Road?
• What is PM's involvement in government deliberations on 38 Oxley Road?
• Can we demolish the House now?

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Indranee Rajah Yesterday at 07:06

4 Further Things You Should Know About the Oxley Dispute

As I explained yesterday, the late Mr Lee Kuan Yew did not simply insist his house be demolished once he was gone. First, he said his daughter Dr Lee Wei Ling should be allowed to live in the house for as long as she wished. This means that the question of demolition may not arise for many more years. Second, the late Mr Lee provided for the possibility of the government deciding to preserve the house, in which case he asked that the house not be opened to others except his descendants.

Today, I would like to look at the last Will - or the "7th Will". How did it come to be? Why is this in contention and what are the issues?

• How many Wills did Mr Lee make and what's the difference between them?
• What concerns have been raised about the 7th Will?
• Why is this relevant from a government perspective?
• Which Lawyer drafted the 7th Will?

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Identify lawyer who drafted Mr Lee's final will: Indranee

Senior Minister of State for Law & Finance Indranee Rajah yesterday called on Mr Lee Hsien Yang, the younger brother of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, to identify the lawyer who drafted the final will of the late Mr Lee Kuan Yew.

She said his June 17 Facebook post had indicated that he knew who had prepared the will, when he twice mentioned "we" in reference to his dealings over the will.

Ms Indranee asked in a lengthy Facebook post if the "we" referred to Mr Lee Hsien Yang's wife, lawyer Lee Suet Fern.

related: Indranee asks LHY who drafted the late Lee Kuan Yew's final will

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'An insult' to LKY to suggest he did not understand last will, Hsien Yang says to Indranee

It is "an insult to a great man" to suggest that the late Mr Lee Kuan Yew did not understand or know what was in his last will, his younger son Mr Lee Hsien Yang has said in response to fresh questions about the document at the heart of a public dispute over the house on 38 Oxley Road.

On Saturday (Jun 24) night, Senior Minister of State (Finance & Law) Indranee Rajah reiterated a poser first raised by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong: The identity of the lawyer who prepared Mr Lee Kuan Yew's Last Will, & the questions that would arise if it was Mrs Lee Suet Fern, given that the final will increased the share of the estate for her husband Mr Lee Hsien Yang.

Writing on Facebook, Ms Indranee questioned who Mr Lee Hsien Yang was referring to when he previously mentioned "we took what we understood to be the final version of the 2011 will, without realising that a gift over clause had been in the executed version of the 2011 will". A gift over clause in a will provides for the gift of property to a second recipient if a certain event occurs.

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An 'insult' to suggest Lee Kuan Yew did not understand his own will: Hsien Yang

It is “an insult to a great man” to suggest that the late Lee Kuan Yew did not understand his own will, said Lee Hsien Yang.

In his latest Facebook post on Saturday (24 June), the brother of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said that the PM “is now getting his ministers to repeat his insinuations that Lee Kuan Yew did not understand his own will”. It was an apparent reference to Senior Minister of State for Law and Finance Indranee Rajah’s Facebook post on the same day.

Hsien Yang, who is currently chairman of the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore, said, “They argue that Lee Kuan Yew, a Cambridge-educated lawyer and sitting MP, signed his own will without knowing what was in it. They claim that he initialed beneath the demolition clause, without understanding what it meant in plain English.”

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Lee Hsien Yang: Don’t insult my father by saying he didn’t know what went into his last will

Senior Minister of State Indranee Rajah, who is a Tanjong Pagar GRC MP, the late Lee Kuan Yew’s former running mate and senior counsel, has up the ante.

In a Facebook post on Saturday night, June 24, she asked some serious questions pertaining to who was the lawyer who prepared Lee Kuan Yew’s last will, highlighting the very real issue of a conflict of interests that could point to the heart of the Lee family feud.

In a rehash of a previously mentioned talking point, Indranee wrote that this was so as the only two lawyers that have been narrowed down who could have drafted the Last Will are:

• Kwa Kim Li, who is the cousin of Lee Hsien Loong, Lee Hsien Yang and Lee Wei Ling
• Lee Suet Fern, who is the wife of Lee Hsien Yang

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Singaporeans weary of prime minister's family spat

Singaporean founding father Lee Kuan Yew, center, celebrates his 80th birthday in 2003. His children have become embroiled in a feud following his death in 2015. © Reuters

The siblings have continued to trade blows via Facebook, with no sign of a truce coming anytime soon. Many Singaporeans, unaware of what caused such distrust among the family in the first place, have started showing signs of weariness with the ongoing drama.

"Parliament is not a forum for siblings' disputes," an internet user believed to be Singaporean said in a comment on a local news website. Concerns have grown that the saga will drag on despite more pressing issues, such as the economy and the growing threat of terrorism in Southeast Asia. Han Fook Kwang, editor-at-large of the influential newspaper The Straits Times, said, "The family feud among the Lees is extremely damaging to Singapore."

The row has invited criticism from overseas, too. "The dispute between [the prime minister] and his siblings might challenge the stability of the country and bring pressure for political reform," wrote the Global Times, the Chinese Communist Party's English-language newspaper.

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Lee Kuan Yew's Wish To Demolish 38 Oxley Road

"I will GET UP!"

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Hari Raya Aidilfitri Puasa 2017

Hari Raya Puasa

The festival of Eid, known in Singapore as Hari Raya Aidilfitri or Hari Raya Puasa, falls on the first day of Syawal, the 10th month of the Hijrah (Islamic) calendar. The Hijrah calendar is a lunar calendar and therefore the dates on which Hari Raya Puasa falls varies each year. It is a celebratory occasion following a month of fasting, which is known as Ramadan. Hari Raya is Malay for "grand day of rejoicing". In Singapore, it is the most prominent of all Muslim festivals.

The Fasting Month Of Ramadan - Ramadan falls on the 9th month of the Islamic year. Puasa is Malay for "fasting". Fasting in Islam means abstaining from eating, drinking, smoking and indulging in any form of behaviour that serves to nullify the fast. During Ramadan, Muslims fast from dawn to dusk and perform religious duties, such as reading the Quran.

Hari Raya Puasa marks the end of the fasting month of Ramadan. It is a time of forgiveness within the Muslim community and a time for strengthening of bonds amongst relatives and friends. New clothes, decorated houses and exchange of invitations between friends and relatives commemorate Hari Raya Puasa.

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Hari Raya Puasa

Hari Raya Puasa, or known to others as Aidil Fitri, is a very important religious day on the Muslim calendar. This Malay festival in Singapore is celebrated at the end of the Ramadan period, the month after fasting and alms giving for the Muslims. Hari Raya falls on the 10th month of the Muslim calendar, call the Hijrah calendar. With only 354 days and employs no significant leap year, the lunar-based Hijrah calendar can fall on any months of the solar calendar.

A visit to Geylang Serai Market or Kampong Glam is a good experience to have during this period, especially in the late afternoon when they come together to break fast.

The celebrations start with the birth of the new moon of Syawal - the 10th month of the Islamic calendar. Muslims would attend sessions of prayers in the mosque early in the morning. By noon, they will put on their best outfits and are ready to visit their friends and relatives for a thanksgiving feast.

Signifying the 'openness' of the heart and mind, Hari Raya Puasa in a multi-cultural country like Singapore is often celebrated with the practice of Muslims inviting their non-Muslim friends to join in the festivities.

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Hari Raya Puasa

Hari Raya Puasa is a very important occasion celebrated by all Muslims over the world. The words ‘Hari Raya’ mean 'day of celebration.' Hari Raya Puasa is often mistaken to be the Muslim New Year but it is not. It marks the end of the month of Ramadan.

Ramadan
Ramadan is the name of the one month fasting period when Muslims fast daily for a period of almost 12 hours from dawn till sunset. During the period of fasting, apart from eating and drinking Muslims are also forbidden from smoking and having sexual relations.

The sick are excused from fasting during this month. Muslims are also expected to avoid lying or cheating during Ramadan. The principal reason for the fasting during Ramadan is to remind Muslims of self-control and submitting to Allah, the holy one. Even young kids are taught to fast when they are young.

Preparations for the Festival of the Breaking of the Fast
In a country such as Singapore where there is a large number of Muslims, Hari Raya preparations are visible from about one month before the festival. Geylang Serai, the place where Muslims traditionally gather, is filled with large crowds during Ramadan. Bazaars are set up selling various festive items for Muslims.

At night the place is lit up with glittering lights. Most of the Muslims go here to buy the food to bring home to eat when they are allowed to break the fast.

Celebrations
During Ramadan. Women start to sew beautiful curtains and buy new clothes for the family. Some families also do renovation so that their home will look better when any guests visit it during the festival. After fulfilling their one-month of fasting, the Muslims are joyful to celebrate Hari Raya Puasa. On the morning of the festival, the Muslims wear their new clothes and go to the mosque to pray. They offer their thanks to God and after that they would ask for forgiveness from their elders.

They feel that asking forgiveness from their elders is an important ritual. On the day, they also visit their relatives and friends to celebrate the happy occasion. If you visit Muslims' homes on Hari Raya Puasa you can expect to taste a wide variety of delicious spicy dishes. Some favorite dishes that can be found in Muslims homes on this special occasion are ketupat, lontong, nasi padang and beef rendang. The Muslims also have the habit of giving packets of money to kids when they go visiting. The packets are usually be in green color and children often look forward to getting these money tokens on Hari Raya Puasa.

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Eid ul-Fitr 26 June 2017 Monday

The festival of Eid al-Fitr, the Festival of Fast breaking, marks the end of Ramadan.

Ramadan is one of the five pillars of the Islamic faith and is sacred to Muslims as it was during this month that the Qur'an was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad.

As the date of Eid depends on the sighting of the moon, there may be variations in the exact date that is celebrated around the world. The announcing of the exact date of Eid may not happen until close to the start of Ramadan.

The table 'Who observes Eid ul-Fitr?' (see right) shows which day is start of Eid in each country covered by officeholidays.com that observes Eid. For a list of holidays per day over the period of Eid ul-Fitr, please check our full list of 2016 Eid al-Fitr holidays by day

Please click on a country name in the table to see the details of Eid holidays in that country.

Muslims celebrate Eid by saying prayers, giving money to the poor, sending Eid greetings and feasting with their families.

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Eid al-Fitr

Eid al-Fitr عيد الفطر (Feast of Breaking the Fast)

Arabic: عيد الفطر‎ ʻĪd al-Fiṭr, IPA: [ʕiːd al fitˤr], "festival of breaking of the fast", also called Feast of Breaking the Fast, the Sugar Feast, Bayram (Bajram), the Sweet festival and the Lesser Eid, is an important religious holiday celebrated by Muslims worldwide that marks the end of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month of fasting (sawm). The religious Eid is a single day and Muslims are not permitted to fast that day. The holiday celebrates the conclusion of the 29 or 30 days of dawn-to-sunset fasting during the entire month of Ramadan.

The day of Eid, therefore, falls on the first day of the month of Shawwal. This is a day when Muslims around the world show a common goal of unity. The date for the start of any lunar Hijri month varies based on the observation of new moon by local religious authorities, so the exact day of celebration varies by locality.

However in most countries, it is generally celebrated on the same day as Saudi Arabia.

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The IISS Shangri-La Dialogue 2017

Think tank snub clouds India-Singapore ties

New Delhi pulled out of the strategic, annual Shangri-La Dialogue over ranking of Indian Minister.

A snub from Singapore’s annual Shangri-La dialogue led to India’s decision to withdraw its delegation led by Minister of State for Defence Subhash Bhamre last week, officials have confirmed to The Hindu.

According to senior officials privy to the decision, organisers of the prestigious conference informed the government that the Indian Minister did not rank as highly as Pakistan’s Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, General Zubair Mahmood Hayat, as “civil military relations in Pakistan are different from those in India.”

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India pulls out of Defence Dialogue threatening to sour “friendly ties between India and Singapore”

Just when the bilateral ties between China and Singapore have become a bit better, another incident has threatened to sour the “friendly ties between India and Singapore”.

This was reported by The Hindu on Sat (10 Jun),’Think tank snub clouds India-Singapore ties’. The Hindu is the second most circulated daily English-language mainstream newspaper in India, with average circulation of some 1.5 million.

It reported that the Indian delegation was pulled out of the recent Shangri-La Dialogue which was held early this month in Singapore over the ranking of Indian Minister. A perceived snub from the organizer of the event led to India’s decision to withdraw its entire delegation led by Indian Minister of State for Defence Subhash Bhamre, reported The Hindu. It has confirmed this with Indian officials.

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INDIA PULLED OUT OF SHANGRI-LA SECURITY DIALOGUE, SAYS TIES WITH SG SOURED BY INCIDENT

The Indian delegation to Singapore's annual Shangri-La Dialogue pulled out of the conference due to a snub over the ranking of an Indian minister, says a report from The Hindu.

According to the paper, the organizer, the International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS), had told the delegation led by Indian Minister Subhash Bhamre that he did not rank as highly as Pakistan's Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, General Zubair Mahmood Hayat, because "civil military relations in Pakistan are different from those in India".

As a result, Mr Bhamre, who was representing India on behalf of Indian Defence Minister Arun Jaitley, was only allowed to speak at a "plenary session" on the last day of the event, and not sit on one of the panels as the Pakistani General Hayat.

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India pulls out of Shangri La dialogue, Defence Minister Arun Jaitley caught up with work

NEW DELHI: India has skipped Shangri La Dialogue in Singapore, which is addressed by top defence minipsters from across the world. Defence minister Arun Jaitley could not go due to work-related commitments.

While it is still unclear how the talks broke down, India pulled out of the conference at a short notice.

The annual conference will not have any Indian speaker unlike last year, when the defence minister had delivered an address on the country's security concerns.

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IISS team in Delhi to ease diplomatic tensions after India pulled out of Shangri-La Dialogue

A team from the International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS), which runs the Asia's premier Shangri-La Dialogue, is in Delhi for damage control over the diplomatic faux pas post the Shangri-La Dialogue, reported The Hindu.

According to The Hindu, a senior fellow of the institute, Tim Huxley is in the capital to engage with key stakeholders in the Indian security establishment. He will be working closely with the Indian government to ensure that India is fully represented at next year's SLD.

This is following India's decision to withdraw from the dialogue after it was informed that the Minister Of State For Defence, Subhash Bhamre, who was filling in for Defense Minister Arun Jaitley, would only be accommodated at a "plenary session" on the last day of the three-day event and not on one of the main panels as Pakistan's Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee General Zubair Mahmood Hayat, which turned out to be a deal-breaker for India, reported The Economic Times.

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A tale of two diplomatic snubs

A few days earlier, over 6,000 km away, the tiny state of Singapore hosted the 16th Asia Security Summit, June 2–4. Also known as the Shangri La Dialogue, this is a multilateral annual meeting of defence ministers and military affairs experts from the Asia-Pacific, North American and European countries.

India, which had planned to send a delegation led by Minister of State for Defence Subhash Bhamre, pulled out at the last minute as Bhamre was not given a speaking slot at the main plenary session, which was addressed by Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull, US secretary of defence General (Retd) James Mattis and General Zubair Mahmood Hayat, chairman, joint chiefs of staff committee, Pakistan armed forces among others.

While Singapore regretted the error, the ‘damage’ as an Indian official was quoted as saying, ‘had been done’. While there’s no doubt that India’s decision to withdraw was correct, it also missed an opportunity to interact with senior statesmen and stakeholders gathered to discuss issues which impact Indian strategic interests in the region.

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China sent a smaller-than-usual delegation to the Shangri-La Dialogue, and it’s really not a big deal

The Shangri-La Dialogue is a once-a-year high-powered military summit that often sees high-ranking military officials from all over the world convene in Singapore, at the Shangri-La Hotel in Orange Grove Road.

The three-day event consists of panel sessions helmed by ministers, and senior military officials, as well as break-out groups for further discussion on issues pertinent to Asia-Pacific regional security.

Various countries’ delegations have also increasingly used the summit to meet and broker deals or agreements with other countries’ officials, so it can be said to be a fairly important part of an Asia-Pacific country’s military calendar.

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The Global Times: “Send lower level team to Shangri-la Dialogue next year”

Prime Minister (PM) Lee Hsien Loong meeting with President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People on 26 August 2013 in Beijing. (Photo: Ministry of Communicatons and Information)

The Global Times has called on Beijing to send a lower level delegation to the Shangri-la Dialogue next year. Describing the security summit held yearly in Singapore since 2002 as a platform Singapore built for the US and Japan, the Chinese newspaper said in a June 11 editorial that China has no reason to show support for it.

China sent a delegation led by a Lieutenant General which the paper felt was “still a bit too high”. Pointing out that the country in recent years has sent fewer officials for training in Singapore, it saw it as another sign of the decreasing influence of the country over China.

Hence, it said, China needs to take a normal attitude toward Singapore swinging between the US and China.

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The famiLEE feud: Rise of the 'First Lady'

Update 23 Aug 2019: PM Lee’s wife, Ho Ching weirdly shares article on cutting ties with family members

On Wednesday (14 August), Ho Ching, the wife of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong (LHL), took to her Facebook to to share an article that explains why it is totally fine to cut ties with toxic family members.

Apart from being married to PM Lee, Madam Ho is also widely known for her career as the chief executive officer of the country’s sovereign wealth fund, Temasek Holdings. She is also deemed as an influential figure not just in Singapore, but worldwide, as she took the 17th spot in Forbes’ World 100 Most Powerful Women in 2018.

In her post, Madam Ho shared an article by Healthy Holistic Living titled “Here’s Why Sometimes It Is Okay to Cut Ties with Toxic Family Members”.

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HO Ching shared a link. 20 hrs

healthy-holistic-living.com
Here’s Why It Is Completely Fine to Cut Family Members Out of Your Life

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HO Ching 12 hrs

I have no view one way or other about who deserves what.

I have however, one view about tables of comparison like the one given in the article.

One big difference is the clean wage system in SG - ie no other perks in kind during office, and no pensions or other benefits after leaving office in SG.

In most, if not all, other countries, they would have many other perks during term of office, like butlers and hairdressers, free flights on national airlines, even family holidays, etc; and quite a number like the USA would include perks after end of term of office.

I do have one more view about pay for public service, whether for political office or “do good” areas like social services.

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Ho Ching, please stop dissembling and tell us how much you earn as a Gov employee

HO Ching 12 hrs

Thirdly and most importantly why is Ho Ching talking about her husband’s salary while she ignores the elephant in the room, which is what she is paid and which she refuses to disclose. If Piyush Gupta is paid $12 million p.a. while the head of SingTel earns over $20 million (including share options), then she must be paid several times that. We cannot just be stonewalled in Parliament by the fiction that Temasek is a private company. I have said many times over the years that it is extremely likely that she is paid more than $100 million a year and has earned more than a billion dollars while she has been at Temasek. Yet her remuneration is treated like a state secret and guarded as closely as the size of our reserves. And when she talks about a “clean” salary without any perks she and her husband need to explain why they are using the Gulfstream owned by Temasek’s subsidiary, ST Aerospace, and whether it is available for her to use for private trips as CEO. Neither does she reveal whether her family money is invested alongside Temasek’s making use of inside information and getting cut in early on special deals.

It is clear that Ho Ching occupies much the same role as Kwa Geok Choo did for LKY. While LKY was paid an obscene salary by the standards of other world leaders, the real money was being scooped up by his wife in her role as head of Lee & Lee. My father was able to establish that Lee & Lee were the preferred lawyer for the HDB’s conveyancing though at the expense of losing our family home. It was probably her that LKY was referring to when he said in 1994 that lawyers were able to make $4 million p.a. Like LHL’s mother, Ho Ching is able to make the real money while her husband is paid a meagre pittance of only $2.2 million p.a.

I wonder who is really richer: the Najib and Rosmah Show or our very own first couple. I guess we will never know.

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“Is Ho Ching considered a civil servant?” Lim Tean questions POFMA order for sharing article about the Temasek CEO’s salary

Mr Lim further questioned why a “supposedly ‘private-exempt' company” that holds “money belonging to the People Of Singapore” gets to be protected by the Government and is exempt from public disclosure of “its management to the stakeholders"

Lawyer and opposition leader Lim Tean questioned the Correction Direction he received on Sunday (Apr 19) from the POFMA office concerning an article from The Online Citizen (TOC) about the salary of Temasek Holdings CEO Ho Ching that Mr Lim had shared on April 15.

The order had been issued by the Minister of Finance, Heng Swee Keat, to HardwareZone user “darksiedluv”, The Temasek Review’s Facebook page, The Online Citizen’s Facebook page and website, as well as to Mr Lim. Singapore’s Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act (POFMA) was passed last year to combat the spread of online falsehoods.

The article on TOC’s site that Mr Lim had shared claimed that Madam Ho was receiving a salary of  “NT$ 2.1 billion”, “about 100 million SGD” or “S$99 million a year,” which the Government decried as false.

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Singapore PM Lee Hsien Loong asks sociopolitical site The Online Citizen to remove allegedly defamatory article or face legal action

Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s spokesperson has issued a letter to a sociopolitical website, demanding that it remove an article containing “false” and “libellous” allegations and publish an apology.

In the letter sent at 6pm on September 1 to Terry Xu, chief editor of The Online Citizen (TOC) – a copy of which was made available to the media – the prime minister’s press secretary Chang Li Lin took issue with an article titled PM Lee’s wife Ho Ching weirdly shares article on cutting ties with family members, which she called a “scurrilous” attack on Lee’s character and integrity.

A link to the article, dated August 15, was also posted on TOC’s Facebook page. The report and Facebook post repeated several false allegations that were levelled against PM Lee by his sister, Dr Lee Wei Ling, said Chang.

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Temasek CEO, Ho Ching makes nearly 200 posts a day on Facebook – why?

Just last week, Temasek CEO and wife of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Ho Ching, got into a little spot of trouble with a Facebook post she made about Taiwan donating medical masks to Singapore.

In a post on Saturday (11 April), Mdm Ho shared an article by Taiwan News about the donation and she accompanied that with a caption that originally said, “Errr….” This drew flak from Taiwan netizens who found her caption confusing and ask her to explain the meaning of the post, adding that if Singapore doesn’t want the masks, it can reject the offer.

The issue unfolded over the weekend with Singaporean netizens defending Mdm Ho’s ambiguous comment, Taiwanese netizens demanding a clarification, as a pro-People’s Action Party (PAP) fanpage referencing Mdm Ho’s post to insinuate that the Taiwan government was keeping these stocks of masks from Singapore. Two days later on Monday, Mdm Ho decided to edit her post to clarify her original comment.

related:
Kenneth Jeyaretnam encourages S'poreans to keep guessing about Ho Ching’s salary
Netizens call for transparency over Ho Ching’s salary;dissatisfied by Temasek’s statement

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Singapore Fact Checking Website Refutes Ho Ching Salary Claim Without Giving Facts

Some Singapore watchers might be forgiven for thinking that Heng Swee Keat is Ho Ching’s house elf.

Somehow yesterday this civil servant got the Finance Minister and the Deputy Prime Minister to issue 4 Protection from Online Falsehood and Manipulation Act (POFMA) notices against various individuals and bloggers.

Apparently, a post by the Taiwan News report that Ho Ching is paid $100 million a year is not true.

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Lee Hsien Yang last Wednesday

Temasek announced its results yesterday. No surprise that it still didn’t disclose Ho Ching’s salary. Why is it such a big secret?

http://theindependent.sg/the-secret-that-is-ho-chings-salary-will-we-ever-know/?fbclid=IwAR1B1-WxN52q254CttQuNQBIYM3206fHcNikDugPsZ0yLHQvaf-LDsRr-OU

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The secret that is Ho Ching’s salary – will we ever know?

The annual remuneration of the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Temasek Holdings seems to be the most well-kept secret, with Singaporeans asking, questioning and even speculating what that elusive number could be.

With Ho Ching heading the fund for the past 16 years, since 2002, many push for some transparency.

One Singaporean, Philip Ang, did some calculations and comparisons on his blog. In a post, he wrote, “Although Temasek Holdings manages our state reserves and should be transparent, the PAP government has legislated senior management executives’ remuneration state secret”.

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Lee Hsien Yang questions: Why is Ho Ching’s salary such a big secret?

After the announcement yesterday (July 9) that Temasek Holdings, Singapore’s state investment firm, reported a record net portfolio value for the last financial year, many, including Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s younger brother, have been asking about why its chief executive officer (CEO), Ho Ching’s salary remains shrouded in secrecy.

PM Lee’s brother, Lee Hsien Yang, took to Facebook earlier today to point out an obvious, but hidden, piece of the puzzle. He wrote, “Temasek announced its results yesterday. No surprise that it still didn’t disclose Ho Ching’s salary”.

The younger Mr Lee also questioned, “Why is it such a big secret?”. Along with his post, Mr Lee Hsien Yang also shared the following article: The secret that is Ho Ching’s salary – will we ever know?

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Lee Hsien Yang: Why is Ho Ching’s salaries a big secret?

The estranged brother of the Prime Minister has hit out at his sister-in-law calling for the government to declare Ho Ching’s salaries:

“Temasek announced its results yesterday. No surprise that it still didn’t disclose Ho Ching’s salary. Why is it such a big secret?”

Through nepotism, the Prime Minister’s wife was made the CEO of Temasek Holdings in 2003, despite having no experience in fund management and being an engineer by training.

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“Ho Ching is watching all of us” – Temasek CEO skirts question on the company’s plans for leadership succession

Instead of giving a direct answer as to what Temasek's leadership succession plans are, when he was asked to give details on these plans and on Mdm Ho's role at the company, Mr Pillay would only say that Mdm Ho is "very much now involved in the stewardship aspects of Temasek…she still keeps a watchful eye over all of us to make sure we continue to do the right thing"

Temasek International CEO Dilhan Pillay appeared to skirt questions on Ho Ching’s role at Temasek and the organisation’s plans for leadership succession, at a recent press briefing.

Temasek International is the investment arm of Singapore sovereign wealth fund, Temasek, which is led by Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s wife, Ho Ching. Instead of giving a direct answer as to what Temasek’s leadership succession plans are, when he was asked to give details on these plans and on Mdm Ho’s role at the company, Mr Pillay would only say that Mdm Ho is “very much now involved in the stewardship aspects of Temasek…she still keeps a watchful eye over all of us to make sure we continue to do the right thing.”

The South China Morning Post noted that Mr Pillay also quipped, “Right now, she’s watching all of us,” and that this remark was met with laughter.

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Where are my Sandals?

Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and Mrs Lee (far left) were among the foreign leaders and their spouses hosted to a welcome banquet by Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan

Singapore PM's Family Feud Reveals Rise of the 'First Lady'

On April 15, 2010, Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong was interviewed by Charlie Rose on American national television and declared without reservation that if anyone suggested that Singapore has a dynastic government – if there was any hint of nepotism – then he would sue them.

That was then. Seven years and two months later, on June 14, 2017, his own brother and sister (Lee Hsien Yang and Lee Wei Ling) accused him of exactly that. He has not sued them, but his brother has said he will flee the country in fear of unspecified repercussions from his conflict with his brother. They accuse him not only of having dynastic ambitions for his son, Li Hongyi, but also of abusing his power as prime minister in his effort to "advance his personal agenda" and of cowering the local press into timid silence.

The tipping point of the dispute is the last will and testament of the family patriarch, Lee Kuan Yew, who died on 23 March 2015. The specific point of dispute is disposal of the family home: Lee Kuan Yew wanted it bulldozed; Lee Hsien Loong wants it preserved and heritage listed. More to the point, he is accused of using the power of Cabinet and his Attorney-General (formerly his personal solicitor) to make it so. (Last week Cabinet Secretary Tan Kee Yong confirmed Cabinet had set up an internal ministerial committee to consider the options for the house but PM Lee had not been involved in the committee's discussions.) The PM's younger siblings have enlisted the power of Facebook and the foreign media (bypassing the Singapore press) to stop him.

related: 12 separate mentions of Ho Ching as a player in the public statement released by Lee Hsien Yang and Lee Wei Ling

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If we vote for PM Lee, we are also voting for Ho Ching as a package deal?

I understand that political spouses have a certain role to play alongside their husbands or wives who are politicians. They are on hand to formally greet dignitaries and provide social support. This role however is ceremonial at best. It has no official capacity. After the initial greetings and pleasantries which are photographed, these spouses usually retreat when actual discussions commence.

It therefore comes as a surprise that wife of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong (PM Lee), Ho Ching was reported to have joined PM Lee, Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean, China's Vice President Wang Qishan together with other Singapore ministers and officials, as the group sat down to discuss various issues.

While Ho Ching, as head of Temasek Holdings, is a powerful woman in her own right, it still remains that she has no official governmental role. In that regard, her presence at governmental discussions may be misplaced. Instead of sitting down to join the group in their discussions, shouldn't she have left after the initial greetings?

related: Ho Ching attends meeting with China’s VP Wang Qishan


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I asked Ho Ching to enter politics: Goh Chok Tong

Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and wife Ho Ching leave after an audience with Brunei’s Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah at Nurul Iman Palace in Bandar Seri Begawan October 5, 2017. (PHOTO: Reuters)

Emeritus Senior Minister (ESM) Goh Chok Tong has revealed that in the early 1980s, he approached Ho Ching to enter politics – but was told that the timing was wrong.

In the first volume of his newly-released memoirs entitled Tall Order: The Goh Chok Tong Story, Goh, who was Prime Minister of Singapore from 1990 to 2004, recalled that he had spotted Ho in the Ministry of Defence and thought that “she had the intellect and the attributes we were looking for”. “She would have made a good minister, a different kind of minister.”

Ho, who is now chief executive of Singapore sovereign wealth fund Temasek Holdings, was in her late 20s at the time. “She did not say no. She said not at this stage. She was still young.”

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Do you agree with ESM Goh that Ho Ching would have made a good minister?

A book about Emeritus Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong is making waves lately with its many revelations about various prominent figures.

One such revelation was that Goh, in the early ’80s, had approached Ho Ching – while she was working in the Ministry of Defence, and before she married current Prime Minister Lee Hsien Long – to join politics. Ho Ching is currently CEO of Temasek Holdings.

Goh had thought “she had the intellect and the attributes we were looking for”, adding that “she would have made a good minister, a different kind of minister”. She did not say no, but rather, not at [that] stage.

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In approaching Ho Ching for politics, has Goh breached his duties as cabinet minister?

To me, the aspiration to hold political office should be a calling. As such, I never really understood or agreed with the ruling Peoples' Action Party's (PAP) practice of handpicking people who have not been involved in politics to join the party and run for office. If you want to get people who have hitherto not been involved in politics to join the political scene, you would have to entice them to join. They may have to leave their existing jobs and to get them to do that - wouldn't you have to sweeten the deal? This is perhaps why our current Members of Parliament (MPs) and ministers are paid so well. Arguably, some were not really interested in political office to begin with and only joined the fray because they were invited to and perhaps made attractive offers? Are these the right type of candidates?

I don't query the intellect of those who have been handpicked. That said, having a high intellect does not necessitate to being a good MP or minister. A good MP or minister needs to have more than intellect, he or she needs to have empathy, desire and passion to be involved in public service. My concern is that the system of handpicking people not involved in politics to join the party may attract candidates who are only in it for the money or prestige. This, in turn, means that the government has to constantly offer high remuneration as an incentive to otherwise uninterested people. Is this the best use of public money?

Former Prime Minister and current Emeritus Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong (Goh), has in his newly-released memoirs entitled Tall Order: The Goh Chok Tong Story, confirmed that this practice of inviting suitable candidates to join the firm. He revealed that "in the early 1980s, he approached Ho Ching to enter politics – but was told that the timing was wrong." He further said that Ho Ching "had the intellect and the attributes we were looking for”. This begs the question - What attributes are they looking for? It sounds rather vague doesn't it? We are left to speculate what exactly those attributes are. Is it a safe pair of hands that will toe the party line part of the desired attributes? Is what is best for PAP always what is best for Singapore as a country?

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ESM Goh reveals Ho Ching didn’t say no when first approached to join politics

In the book, ESM Goh revealed that he did try to ask Ho Ching, presently the second wife of PM Lee, to join politics. But that was before she was married to PM Lee, after Lee's first wife Wong Ming Yang died shortly after giving birth to their first son, who was born with Albinism.

Goh said, "I did approach Ho Ching and ask her if she would be interested in politics. It was quite early on. She was about 28, 29 or 30, before she married Lee Hsien Loong." Goh said he spotted her in Mindef and thought that she had the necessary "intellect and attributes". "I knew she was a President's Scholar, but I didn't know her well - only superficially because she was in the science part of Mindef," he added.

"Through briefings and so on, I could see that she had a lot of substance. She would have made a good minister, a different kind of minister." Apparently, Ho Ching did not say no right away.

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SONS, MOTHERS, MONEY AND MEMORY: THEORIES ABOUT THE LEE KUAN YEW FAMILY FEUD

Ho Ching, chief executive of Singapore’s mammoth investment fund, Temasek Holdings, and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s wife. Photo: AFP

Ho Ching, a scientist – and President’s Scholar.

She rose to become chief executive of Singapore’s mammoth investment fund, Temasek Holdings. She has held that post for the past 15 years.

Last year, Ho Ching ranked number 30 in the Forbes’ list of most powerful women in the world.

related: WHO’S WHO IN THE LEE KUAN YEW FAMILY FEUD

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‘WORSE THAN THE KARDASHIANS’: LEE KUAN YEW FAMILY FEUD TURNS UGLY AS SIBLINGS TARGET SINGAPORE PRIME MINISTER’S WIFE

The bitter public quarrel among the family of Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has taken a turn for the worse, as the two feuding sides engaged in a fresh social media skirmish centred on the leader’s wife

It was not the first time Ho Ching had found herself caught in the crossfire of the battle over the estate of her father-in-law Lee Kuan Yew, the late founding leader of the city state. On Thursday, she was put front and centre of the feud as the premier’s brother Lee Hsien Yang launched new accusations on Facebook claiming his sister-in-law “helped herself” to personal items belonging to the family patriarch as he lay on his death bed in February 2015.

He posted documentary evidence that he claimed showed Ho Ching removing the items from the elder Lee’s house, and donating them to the National Heritage Board a day after he was admitted to hospital for the last time on February 5, 2015. Lee Kuan Yew died at age 91 seven weeks later, on March 23, 2015.

But the latest allegation was left standing on shaky ground on Friday after the heritage board said the dates on the documents were inaccurate due to a “clerical error” – with the actual date of its receipt of the items being April 6, 2015. Official accounts meanwhile put the leader’s wife overseas when her father-in-law was sent to hospital. Lee Hsien Yang, one of the two younger Lee siblings entrusted with executing Lee Kuan Yew’s final will, remained defiant after the contradictions were revealed.

related: What’s really behind the Lee Kuan Yew family feud?

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HO CHING SPEAKS UP FOR FIRST TIME, REMINDS SIBLINGS LKY WOULD NOT WANT THEM TO SQUABBLE

The next salvo in the ongoing saga is now fired by none other than Ho Ching herself. Seems like every night someone from the famiLEE are saying something or another, only for the person to refute and allege something else, and on and on it continues. Ho Ching had thus far remained quiet, but a week after this feud broke, she finally broke her silence.

The noise coming from Ho Ching now is that she claims she had informed the Lee siblings about the items loaned to the National Heritage Board, and she vehemently claimed that she had informed Lee Hsien Yang and Lee Wei Ling about what she did when tidying up the house at 38, Oxley Road after Mr Lee’s funeral.

In her reply, she also managed to insinuate that the cleaning up process was hard work, and she had to do it, as she did not see either Lee Wei Ling or Lee Hsien Yang’s wife capable of doing such “dogsbody” work.

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Ho Ching: I did “dogsbody work” like a maid after Papa died

Ho Ching has just responded on Lee Hsien Yang’s Facebook page today (June 12), and the Prime Minister’s wife wrote a long sob story of how she did “dogsbody work” like a maid after Lee Kuan Yew died:

“However, you may remember that after papa’s funeral, you went off with Fern for a break in Japan or somewhere. I began tidying up the house, cleaning up stuff in the basement, and organizing items, dogsbody work as I mentioned to you before, which I couldn’t see Ling or Fern doing.”

Ho Ching in her response wrote that she was overseas on 6 Feb 2015. However, she was not able to explain her theft on 6 April 2015, or why did the items she claimed she collected were already displayed on exhibition on 25 March 2015.

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Ho Ching comments on Lee Hsien Yang’s Facebook post

Ho Ching has on Friday, June 23, personally responded on Lee Hsien Yang’s Facebook post.

She clarified the circumstances that resulted in the belongings of Lee Kuan Yew to be loaned to the National Heritage Board (NHB) for a memorial exhibition. This is Ho Ching’s full post in response to Lee Hsien Yang:

• I was away from 31 January night till 7 Feb evening, when I went with Loong to Germany and Spain for his official and working visits. I was not in Singapore on 6 Feb.
• In any case, there would not be any reason for me to rummage or tidy up papa’s things when he was in the hospital – that is not me nor my values.
• However, you may remember that after papa’s funeral, you went off with Fern for a break in Japan or somewhere. I began tidying up the house, cleaning up stuff in the basement, and organizing items, dogsbody work as I mentioned to you before, which I couldn’t see Ling or Fern doing. This was what I had also done at papa’s request after mama’s death. Ling was in Oxley, and I had kept her posted, while trying not to intrude into her grieving.

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HO CHING REMINDS SIBLINGS LKY WOULD NOT WANT THEM TO SQUABBLE

In her reply, she also managed to insinuate that the cleaning up process was hard work, and she had to do it, as she did not see either Lee Wei Ling or Lee Hsien Yang's wife capable of doing such "dogsbody" work.

She also said that at all times, she had informed all the siblings about her actions, and whenever she found interesting things for NHB, she would tell the siblings and they were agreeable to the items being put on show. She also reiterated that these items are loaned out from the estate, and must be returned.

She ended her reply by tugging on the family heartstrings by saying "I hope that whatever you are upset about, you will have the heart to remember what papa and mama would have wanted most for the family and for Singapore." Spoken like a true diplomat.

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Ho Ching faults Lee Kuan Yew’s daughter and other daughter-in-law for not doing ‘women’s work’

Commenting on her brother-in-law, Lee Hsien Yang’s Facebook about how she chanced upon some of the items from Lee Kuan Yew’s house (which were later loaned to National Heritage Board), Madam Ho Ching said that she was only “tidying up the house, cleaning up stuff in the basement, and organizing items, (work) which I couldn’t see Ling or Fern doing.”

Madam Ho took leave in late March 2015 after the death of her father-in-law, and extended her sabbatical until October of that year. She pointed out that Lee Hsien Yang’s wife not only not clean and tidy up the house but also went off with her husband to Japan for a break after Lee Kuan Yew’s funeral.

Madam Ho did not say if her husband or Lee Hsien Yang helped clean, tidy up and organise items in Lee Kuan Yew’s family home at 38 Oxley Road after the passing away of Singapore’s first Prime Minister. She however reminded Lee Hsien Yang that she did the same kind of ‘dogsbody work’ after his mother, Kwa Geok Choo, passed away.

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Mdm Ho Ching finally joins the FamiLee 

It all happened after Lee Hsien Yang claimed in a Facebook post Mdm Ho had “helped herself to a number of Lee Kuan Yew’s papers” on Feb 6, 2015. The thing is, Mdm Ho wasn’t even in Singapore on that date. She was accompanying PM Lee on an official trip in Spain.

That wasn’t the only thing that Lee Hsien Yang got wrong. National Heritage Board (NHB) have also clarified that the items were handed over to NHB on Apr 6, 2015, well after the late Mr Lee Kuan Yew passed away. He has since edited his post though.

Still, not satisfied with all that explanation, Lee Hsien Yang kept on accusing Mdm Ho of wrongdoing. Maybe it was the veiled accusation that she’s a thief finally made Mdm Ho finally buay tahan. Because she left a comment on Lee Hsien Yang’s Facebook page in response. Here are the three key points of Mdm Ho’s comment.

• Mdm Ho was tidying the house while Lee Hsien Yang went on holiday
• Mdm Ho found interesting items for an exhibition on Lee Kuan Yew’s life
• Mdm Ho kept Lee Hsien Yang and Lee Wei Ling posted through it all

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Lee Hsien Loong 11 hrs 

Ho Ching explains how my father’s items were handled after he passed away, with my siblings kept in the loop. Questions had been raised about her role in the loan of some of these items to NHB. The loan was openly done, and for a good cause – an exhibition remembering my father soon after he died. – LHL

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FamiLEE saga: The hoo-ha over Ho Ching… hmmm

THAT was a masterly response from Madam Ho Ching! Read her post and you can see an Asian aunty tidying up after pampered children. You can see her with a broom and a dustpan carrying out the dutiful daughter-in-law responsibilities – or being a “dogsbody’’, as she put it rather old-fashionedly.

This image hardly tallies with the Lee siblings’ first description of her as a power hungry matriarch with too much influence over civil servants. She was, they said, the opposite of their mother, the late Madam Kwa Geok Choo.

“Singapore has no such thing as the wife of the prime minister being a ‘first lady,’” they said in a joint statement released on June 14, 2017. “During those many years, his [Lee Kuan Yew’s] wife (our mother) consistently avoided the limelight, remaining his stalwart supporter and advisor in private. She lived discreetly, and set a high bar for the conduct of a prime minister’s wife. She would never instruct Permanent Secretaries or senior civil servants. The contrast between her and Ho Ching could not be more stark. While Ho Ching holds no elected or official position in government, her influence is pervasive, and extends well beyond her job purview.”

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Ho Ching responds, claims Hsien Yang gave approval for her to liaise with NHB on Kuan Yew’s artefacts

Ho Ching, the wife of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, on Friday (Jun 23) said she had informed the Lee siblings about the items loaned to the National Heritage Board (NHB).

She was responding to Lee Hsien Yang’s Facebook post accusing her of “theft and intermeddling”.

In a long Facebook comment, she said Hsien Yang and Lee Wei Ling and Suet Fern was kept updated about what she was doing with the papers and that Hsien Yang had also gave his approval for Ho Ching to arrange with the National Heritage Board (NHB) to pick up items for Lee Kuan Yew’s exhibition.

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Ho Ching was abroad on the date LHY alleged that she took Kuan Yew’s papers
LHY may have obtained confidential information before the Final Will was read
LHY now claims the removal of LKY’s papers consitute “theft and intermeddling”

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Ho Ching refutes Lee Hsien Yang’s claim that she 'helped herself' to Lee Kuan Yew’s papers

Ho Ching on Friday (23 June) refuted a claim by her brother-in-law Lee Hsien Yang that she had “helped herself” to a number of Lee Kuan Yew’s papers a day after the late Prime Minister was admitted to hospital.

In a direct reply to Hsien Yang’s post on Facebook on Thursday, Ho, the wife of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, also clarified the events that led to the loan of several items belonging to the late Lee to the National Heritage Board (NHB).

Hsien Yang claimed that on 6 February 2015, a day after the late Lee was rushed to an intensive care unit, Ho had taken a number of the late Lee’s papers and handed them to the NHB under the auspices of the Prime Minister’s Office.

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PM Lee obtained deed of gift for Oxley items in official capacity: Lawrence Wong
PAP took Lee Kuan Yew’s note to Cabinet ‘out of context’: Lee Wei Ling
Ministerial Committee ‘refused to identify’ full membership for almost a year: LWL
NHB error on collection date for LKY’s items ‘even more troubling’: Hsien Yang
LHL told Lee Kuan Yew he wanted Oxley house to be heritage site:LHY
Workers’ Party to ask about abuse of power allegations arising from Lee family feud
PM Lee apologises for family feud affecting Singaporeans’ confidence in Govt
Lee Wei Ling raps Shanmugam for view on conflict of interest
COMMENT: House of Lee feud takes on national significance
PM Lee’s new stance over Oxley Road house led to my statement with LWL: LHY

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Ho Ching responds to Lee Hsien Yang regarding Lee Kuan Yew's items loaned to NHB

Mdm Ho Ching on Fri (Jun 23) clarified the circumstances under which the belongings of Mr Lee Kuan Yew were loaned to the National Heritage Board (NHB) for a memorial exhibition on the founding Prime Minister

The late Mr Lee's youngest son, Mr Lee Hsien Yang, claimed on Thursday that Mdm Ho had “helped herself to a number of Lee Kuan Yew’s papers” on Feb 6, 2015, while the elder Mr Lee had been "gravely ill" in hospital.

In a comment posted on Mr Lee's FB page, Mdm Ho confirmed that she had been overseas at the time, accompanying her husband, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, on official visits to Germany & Spain

"In any case, there would not be any reason for me to rummage or tidy up papa’s things when he was in the hospital – that is not me nor my values," Mdm Ho wrote.

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PM Lee's wife: I informed Lee siblings about NHB loans

Ms Ho Ching, wife of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, yesterday said she had informed the Lee siblings about items belonging to their father that were loaned to the National Heritage Board (NHB).

She gave her account of how the items were found, how she discussed their significance with her husband and arranged for the donation to the NHB, with the siblings kept updated.

She said this in a reply on Mr Lee Hsien Yang's Facebook page, a day after he accused her of taking away items belonging to the late Mr Lee Kuan Yew from his 38, Oxley Road, home. He had said this "constitutes both theft and intermeddling".

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Will accepts alternatives to demolition: Indranee Rajah
Lee Hsien Yang responds to brother PM Lee

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Ho Ching says Lee Hsien Yang and Lee Weiling posted of what she had done after will was read on 12 April

Ms Ho Ching, wife of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has replied Mr Lee Hsien Yang (LHY)'s allegations in a Facebook comment posted on one of LHY's posts. Addressing LHY affectionately as "Yang", Ms Ho clarified that she was not in Singapore on 6 Feb as she was away with PM Lee to Germany and Spain for official duties. LHY had earlier accused Ms Ho of obtaining the documents from the property at 38 Oxley Road without the approval of the executors of Lee Kuan Yew's will and handing over the items over to National Heritage Board (NHB) on 6 Feb 2016.

Ms Ho wrote that she had tidied up the basement at 38 Oxley Road after LKY's funeral and had kept Dr Lee Weiling (LWL) informed of what she was doing at the property while not trying to intrude into her grieving.  She noted that she came across items which she thought were significant in LKY's life and informed PM Lee about it. Four items were then identified and loaned to NHB which was organising an exhibition on LKY.

Ms Ho further mentioned that the items were loaned to NHB through the Prime Minister Office (PMO) and had emphasized to NHB that the items had to be returned as it belong to the LKY estate.

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Why did National Heritage Board’s CEO take more than 2 years to discover ‘clerical error’?

On 22 June, Lee Hsien Yang posted a Facebook message revealing that while Lee Kuan Yew was entered into hospital on 5 Feb 2015, fighting for his live in ICU, Ho Ching, the daughter-in-law, instructed someone to take Lee’s belongings from his residence at Oxley Road the next day (6 Feb 2015).

The items were handed over to National Heritage Board’s (NHB) on the same day when they were taken out from LKY’s residence. NHB listed Ho Ching as the PMO’s point of contact.

The media then made further enquiries with NHB and last night, NHB quickly clarified that the actual collection date of the items was 6 April 2015 (after LKY’s death in March) and not “6 Feb 2015”. It added that it was a “clerical error” that had led to the wrong date being recorded in the cited list.

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NHB 'clerical error' sparks more allegations in Lee family dispute

The National Heritage Board (NHB) said on Thursday (June 22) that a clerical error resulted in wrongly recorded dates which were at the centre of more allegations in the dispute among the Lee siblings over their family home on 38 Oxley Road.

In a Facebook post on Thursday evening on the family dispute over 38 Oxley Road, Mr Lee Hsien Yang alleged that his sister-in-law Ho Ching collected some items belonging to Mr Lee Kuan Yew from his Oxley Road home while he was gravely ill in hospital. He attached a picture in the post of a document detailing the items were allegedly transferred by Madam Ho, the wife of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, to the NHB.

To NHB’s admission of the error in dates, which showed the items transferred after Mr Lee Kuan Yew’s death, he said: “This is even more troubling. By LKY’s will, the estate’s residual items, such as personal documents, fall under the absolute discretion of the executors Wei Ling and myself. Unapproved removal of these items, even by a beneficiary, constitutes both theft and intermeddling. Ho Ching is not an executor or a beneficiary to our father’s estate. We also still do not understand how she is a proper contact representative for the PMO.”

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Lee Hsien Yang 20 hrs

LKY was admitted gravely ill into the ICU on 5 February 2015. The next day, Ho Ching helped herself to a number of LKY's papers. These she handed to the NHB (ostensibly on loan) under the auspices of the Prime Minister's Office.

She had no business doing this when LKY was in ICU and it is deeply troubling that someone can represent the PMO despite holding no official position.

EDIT: CNA has kindly pointed out to us that Ho Ching may have been on an official trip on 6 Feb. In that case, since this official NHB document lists Ho Ching as the PMO point of contact, can she please identify the subordinate she instructed to take our father's belongings?

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Lee Hsien Yang says Ho Ching 'helped herself' to Lee Kuan Yew's papers; records show she was abroad

Mr Lee Hsien Yang on Thursday (Jun 22) accused Mdm Ho Ching, the wife of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, of accessing some of Mr Lee Kuan Yew's documents on Feb 6, 2015 while the elder Mr Lee was "gravely ill" in hospital, even though records show she was abroad at the time.

Mdm Ho Ching had been accompanying Prime Minister Lee on a week-long official visit to Germany & Spain and was in Madrid on the date Mr Lee Hsien Yang mentioned. She returned to Singapore on Feb 7, 2015.

Mr Lee Hsien Yang had alleged in his FaceBook post on Thursday: "LKY was admitted gravely ill into the ICU on Feb 5, 2015. The next day, Ho Ching helped herself to a number of LKY's papers. These she handed to the NHB (ostensibly on loan) under the auspices of the Prime Minister's Office," Mr Lee wrote.

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NHB error on collection date for LKY's items 'even more troubling': Hsien Yang

The National Heritage Board’s (NHB) “clerical error” regarding the date on which some of the late Lee Kuan Yew’s items were collected is “even more troubling”, said Lee Hsien Yang in a Facebook post late on Thursday (23 June) night.

In an earlier post, Hsien Yang – who is the brother of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and son of former prime minister Lee Kuan Yew – had accused PM Lee’s wife, Ho Ching, of acting “under the auspices” of the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) when she allegedly handed certain personal items that belonged to the late Lee over to the NHB on 6 February 2015. The post included a photo of a list of six items, five of which were shown to have been handed over on the aforementioned date. In each instance, the items’ lender/source was cited as the PMO, with Ho as the point of contact.

In response to media queries on Hsien Yang’s earlier post, the NHB clarified that the actual collection date of the items was 6 April 2015 and that it was a “clerical error” that had led to the wrong date being recorded in the cited list.

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Ho Ching had 'no business' acting on PMO's behalf in collection of LKY's papers: Hsien Yang

The National Heritage Board (NHB) said on Thursday (22 June) that, due to a “clerical error”, the wrong dates were recorded in the list cited by Lee Hsien Yang, which states when the items belonging to Lee Kuan Yew were handed over by the Prime Minister’s Office to the NHB. Instead of 6 February 2015 as Hsien Yang mentioned, the actual date on which items 2 to 5 on the list were handed over to the NHB was 6 April 2015, according to a Channel NewsAsia report. This occurred following the death of Lee Kuan Yew and the items were loaned to NHB for display in the “In Memoriam: Lee Kuan Yew” exhibition that was subsequently held.

Lee Hsien Yang updated his Facebook post at around 8.30pm with the following: “CNA has kindly pointed out to us that Ho Ching may have been on an official trip on 6 Feb. In that case, since this official NHB document lists Ho Ching as the PMO point of contact, can she please identify the subordinate she instructed to take our father’s belongings?”

Lee Hsien Yang has questioned why Singapore leader Lee Hsien Loong’s wife, Ho Ching, had acted “under the auspices” of the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) in collecting papers belonging to the late Lee Kuan Yew despite not holding an official PMO post.

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Lee Hsien Yang: Ho Ching passed LKY’s papers to NHB under “auspices” of Prime Minister’s Office

It looks like the Lee family feud will not be abating anytime soon.

Shortly after Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam waded into the public spat between the Lee siblings, Lee Hsien Yang has fired another salvo.

Targeting PM Lee’s wife Ho Ching in his latest post, Hsien Yang claimed that Ho had handed a number of LKY’s papers to the National Heritage Board (NHB) under the “auspices” of the Prime Minister’s Office, after LKY was admitted to hospital on Feb. 5, 2015.

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Lee Hsien Yang insists the removal of LKY’s items was ‘theft’

Lee Hsien Yang (LHY)’s Facebook post had attacked his sister-in-law and Temasek Holdings CEO Ho Ching for acting improperly by handing over founding Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew’s papers to National Heritage Board (NHB), only to find out later that she was not in the country.

Nevertheless, his claims prompted NHB to step out to clear the air, by admitting to a “clerical error” in recording the date of receipt of the loan items.

This was what LHY had included in his Facebook post — a picture of a document listing down the items which he said Ho had handed to NHB, which included:

• Red Ministerial Box and key with key pouch
• Cambridge University Reporter, 18 June 1949
• Memo from Director of Posts, Singapore, 11 Feb 1952
• Letter to Mr Lee Kuan Yew from J. Laycock and Laycock & Ong, 13 April 1953 Envelop
• Telegram from Lee Kuan Yew, 26 Sept 1958

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Financial Times most read letter: the Lee’s banana republic?

In a letter, the most read Friday 23rd in the Financial Times, one Frankie Leung from Los Angeles, CA, USA said the Lee family’s feud could not happen in Singapore as it sounded like a ‘banana republic’ saga.

“When the story broke that the prime minister’s younger brother and his wife had to flee the country to avoid political persecution, we thought it could only happen in a banana republic and not the Republic of Singapore,” the letter said.


He also wrote that When the Old Man (as Singapore’s late premier Lee Kuan Yew was fondly called) talked so eloquently about Asian values and propounded his interpretation of a brand of Confucianism, I had to bite my lip to stop laughing.

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Lee Hsien Yang sparks fresh dispute on items taken for Lee Kuan Yew memorial exhibition

A dispute between the children of late founding Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew over his old home at Oxley Road has now widened to include items in his estate that were loaned to a memorial exhibition.

On Thursday (Jun 22), the late Mr Lee's youngest son Lee Hsien Yang claimed in a FB post that his brother Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s wife Ho Ching had “helped herself to a number of Lee Kuan Yew’s papers” on Feb 6, 2015. This was while the elder Mr Lee lay “gravely ill” in the intensive care unit, after being admitted to hospital the day before, he alleged.

He also claimed that Mdm Ho Ching did so “under the auspices of the Prime Minister's Office”, calling it “deeply troubling”.

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Lee Hsien Yang: Ho Ching “helped herself” to several of Lee Kuan Yew’s papers

Lee Hsien Yang on Thursday (Jun 22) accused Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s wife, Ho Ching, of handing papers from their father, when the elder was admitted to the intensive care unit on Feb 5, 2015.

Hsien Yang also charged that Ho Ching had acted under the purview of the Prime Minister Office (PMO) despite not having any official position to do so.

The papers in question were:

• Red Ministerial Box and key with key pouch
• A document dating 18 June 1949 from Cambridge University Reporter, a journal of the university’s official business
• A memo from then Singapore’s Director of Posts, dated 11 February 1952
• A letter to Kuan Yew dated 13 April 1953 from J. Laycock founder of law firm Laycock & Ong where Kuan Yew had worked as a young lawyer
• A telegram from Kuan Yew dated 26 September 1958

related: Ho Ching was abroad on the day LHY alleged that she took the papers

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Lee Hsien Yang accuses PM’s wife of helping herself to Lee Kuan Yew’s documents when he was ill

Now that Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has assured the public that he’s ready to be interrogated in Parliament about the whole Oxley Road saga, his brother Lee Hsien Yang has turned his iron sights towards another figure: the PM’s wife, Ho Ching.

And what a bold, perilous move he executed in the latest development to a tiresome tiff. Hsien Yang accused his sister-in-law of purloining a number of documents belonging to his late father and founding prime minister Lee Kuan Yew — while the man was gravely ill in an Intensive Care Unit, no less. Gasp!

In his own words, Ho Ching “helped herself” to the items (including a letter and a telegram from the ’50s), which she then handed over to the National Heritage Board (NHB) on loan.

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HARD TRUTHS: Ho Ching in Mr Lee Kuan Yew’s own words

So, Ho Ching – Lee Hsien Loong’s wife – is now in the limelight. Ho Ching is Lee Hsien Loong’s wife from his second marriage. His first wife, Wong Ming Yang, with whom he had two children – daughter Xiuqi and son Yipeng – passed away in 1982. Lee Hsien Loong married Ho Ching, an engineer, in 1985.

And here’s what Mr Lee Kuan Yew had to say about her.

Excerpts from the book ‘Hard Truths to Keep Singapore Going’, which was published in 2011.

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Singaporeans weary of prime minister's family spat

Singaporean founding father Lee Kuan Yew, center, celebrates his 80th birthday in 2003. His children have become embroiled in a feud following his death in 2015. © Reuters

The siblings have continued to trade blows via Facebook, with no sign of a truce coming anytime soon. Many Singaporeans, unaware of what caused such distrust among the family in the first place, have started showing signs of weariness with the ongoing drama.

"Parliament is not a forum for siblings' disputes," an internet user believed to be Singaporean said in a comment on a local news website. Concerns have grown that the saga will drag on despite more pressing issues, such as the economy and the growing threat of terrorism in Southeast Asia. Han Fook Kwang, editor-at-large of the influential newspaper The Straits Times, said, "The family feud among the Lees is extremely damaging to Singapore."

The row has invited criticism from overseas, too. "The dispute between [the prime minister] and his siblings might challenge the stability of the country and bring pressure for political reform," wrote the Global Times, the Chinese Communist Party's English-language newspaper.

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LEE FAMILY SPAT: HO CHING INSTRUCTED SENIOR CIVIL SERVANTS WHEN SHE HAS NO OFFICIAL POSITION IN GOVT

Singapore has no such thing as the wife of the prime minister being a ‘first lady’. Lee Kuan Yew was Prime Minister from 1959 to 1990. During those many years, his wife (our mother) consistently avoided the limelight, remaining his stalwart supporter and advisor in private.

She lived discreetly, and set a high bar for the conduct of a prime minister’s wife. She would never instruct Permanent Secretaries or senior civil servants.

The contrast between her and Ho Ching could not be more stark. While Ho Ching holds no elected or official position in government, her influence is pervasive, and extends well beyond her job purview.

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The mystery of Ho Ching

If you run down the list of 100 women, you can be sure that the women (with very few exceptions like Ho Ching) are subject to intense public and media scrutiny

Ho Ching is conspicuously different. When was the last time you saw her deliver a speech at an event? Give a media interview? Subject herself to account for anything?

She does not even front the annual press conference to present the Temasek Holdings’ financial scorecard. This is so unlike other major organisations like SingTel and DBS Bank – you can be sure the CEO is front and centre of of it all when their financial performance is presented, fielding questions and giving media interviews. Temasek Holdings appears to adopt the unusual stance of putting the CEO at the backburner when it comes to media relations, transparency and accountability.

Ho Ching has been CEO of Temasek Holdings since 2004. For many years now, we have been hearing the usual refrain from Temasek Holdings about succession planning. This year, at its annual press conference, the same thing was regurgitated, this time by investment head Dilhan Pillay Sandrasegara: “As we have said over the years, the board has an annual succession review and that’s the discipline we put in place.” We call this PR-speak – rehearsed words that say something but really mean nothing.

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The politics of power dressing

U.S. first lady Michelle Obama and Ho Ching, wife of Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, stand together during an official arrival ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, U.S. August 2, 2016. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

WHEN it comes to powerful women and what they wear, everyone’s a critic.

Think about the attention Theresa May’s kitten heels and her love for animal prints has received. Never mind the fact that she has more than 30 years of experience in British politics.

Most recently, netizens aspiring to join the fashion police took pot-shots at Ms Ho Ching’s choice of clothes during her visit to the United States with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong this week.

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Ho Ching's refreshingly chill approach to social media

© Coconuts Media Photo: Ho Ching Facebook page

Unlike her husband — who holds the most powerful position in the country — the Prime Minister's wife Ho Ching has a rather refreshingly lax approach to her social media postings.

If one were to look at her personal (and verified) Facebook page,  it would seem that she loves to spam links to various videos, articles and memes without a care for public relations at all — an amazing feat considering that every single aspect of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's own social media presence is clearly curated. The same goes for the rest of the ministers and various politicians under him — they can (most times) be so inoffensive and sterile to the point of being bland.

That's why Ho Ching's own posts are so relatively interesting. Politically incorrect jokes even make it to her feed — like this one about Pornhub (sadly blocked in Singapore, mind you). Bless her gleeful, carefree heart.

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