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The children of Singapore's late founding leader Lee Kuan Yew - current Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, neurologist Lee Wei Ling and business leader Lee Hsien Yang - are publicly fighting over his estate. At the quarrel's heart is their childhood home, 38 Oxley Road - will it be demolished, as Lee Kuan Yew stated in his will, or will Singapore's government preserve it?
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- Lee Hsien Yang, the estranged brother of Singapore’s PM, was ordered to pay damages to 2 cabinet ministers over a Facebook post they said was defamatory
- Lee’s post related to a controversy over the rental of colonial bungalows by the foreign affairs and law ministers, who have both been cleared of any wrongdoing
K Shanmugam and Vivian Balakrishnan have sued Lee Hsien Yang for defamation over allegations about the Singapore ministers’ rental of two bungalows at Ridout Road.
PM Lee’s brother, currently in self-exile overseas, had made comments on Facebook about a saga surrounding the rental of colonia-era bungalows by the ministers.
Prime Minister Lee’s brother, Lee Hsien Yang, says trust in the ruling party ‘has been shattered’ over various political scandals involving PAP ministers in recent weeks.
Minister K Shanmugam says Lee Hsien Yang and Lee Suet Fern ‘will have every right to provide explanations’ in perjury probe if they return to Singapore to be interviewed by police.
Former top diplomat has repeatedly denied he would contest the presidential election, which must be held no later than September 13.
Lee Hsien Yang had been considering running in the presidential election, but is close to giving up due to the latest wave of verbal attacks against him.
Discord among the Lee siblings has simmered for years since the death in 2015 of their father, Lee Kuan Yew, who was the founder of modern Singapore.
The two are being investigated for giving false evidence in judicial proceedings over Singapore’s late independence leader Lee Kuan Yew.
Lee Hsien Yang’s move to sell the home comes as Singapore experiences a property frenzy that led to S$32.9 billion in sales in the first half of 2021 alone.
The suit concerned false statements published by The Online Citizen in 2019 about Lee Kuan Yew’s former home. All proceeds will be donated to charity, the PM’s press secretary said.
Former leader urges the next generation to ‘deliberate carefully’ as he launches the second instalment of his biography ‘Standing Tall: The Goh Chok Tong Years’.
Leong Sze Hian of the Peoples Voice party was sued after he shared on Facebook an online article linking Lee to Malaysia’s 1MDB financial scandal.
The Law Society of Singapore discharged its statutory duties of self-regulation conscientiously and fairly. Prosecution is not persecution.
Lee Hsien Loong is suing the chief editor of The Online Citizen for libel over an article published last year about the family dispute over Lee Kuan Yew’s home.
Lawyer Lee Suet Fern, the daughter-in-law of Singapore independence leader Lee Kuan Yew, was involved in preparing his final will.
An Institute of Policy Studies survey conducted after the July general election showed a greater desire for political pluralism among voters and a rise in perceptions of credibility of the main opposition Workers’ Party.
The daughter-in-law of former prime minister Lee Kuan Yew is appealing a verdict that found her guilty of improper conduct in directly handing the patriarch’s will.
The Harvard academic and son of Lee Hsien Yang was ordered to pay a fine over a 2017 Facebook post describing Singapore’s justice system as ‘pliant’.
Li Shengwu in 2017 wrote in a private Facebook post that the Singapore government is ‘very litigious and has a pliant court system’.
Lee Hsien Yang’s support of the PSP, Heng Swee Keat’s East Coast Plan and Vivian Balakrishnan’s debate with Jamus Lim and Chee Soon Juan were among the most-talked about moments of the nine-day campaign.
The Sukarnoputri sisters in Indonesia, Singapore’s Lee siblings and the royal family of Thailand electrify the public with their personal and electoral spats.
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s estranged brother has explained his decision to join the Progress Singapore Party, and why the ruling PAP has ‘lost its way’.
The ruling People’s Action party will face opponents in all seats for only the second time since Singapore’s independence. Here’s the lowdown on the contenders.
On Nomination Day, Deputy PM Heng Swee Keat made an 11th hour switch to East Coast GRC as the PM’s brother Lee Hsien Yang ended weeks of speculation about his election plans, saying ‘Singapore does not need another Lee’.
The long-standing rift between the children of Singapore’s founding father Lee Kuan Yew centres on what to do with his house.
The ruling PAP will be seeking a strong vote of confidence in its ‘4G’ leaders. Singapore’s coronavirus response and economic woes are issues that will feature in a relatively muted campaign with no mass rallies.
