The Malaysian Insider

LKY probably assumed BN will remain in power forever, like his PAP.

Well, the world changes and eventually, Singapore will change too if PAP can no longer function for Singapore.

was badawi sleeping during the meeting?

Long live LKY to see through the change of hands of the federal government after the next general elections.

As i know this the main purpose LKY why visiting Malaysia. He just wants build relationship with PR control state. He was smart leader and knowing that next GE the federal Government will change as well.

Seems like EVERYBODY wants to have a piece of LKY!

Minister Mentor LKY is a highly respected, experienced, recognised and successful political figure the world over.

His trip here, it seems, apart from being a trip down memory lane, is a fact finding mission, during which the information and material culled WILL certainly be incorporated into his near future writings.

He would then be able to claim that his writings are not simply plucked from the media or hearsay, but from real, tangible and first hand experiences which could not be contested nor denied.

How many senior political figures could have enjoyed such privileged and first-rate hands-on, real life journey?

His foray is certainly courageous and, at the same time, amusing and could arouse envy from certain parties.

LKY is smart. He is learning how the PR government functions without federal funding. Even this smart old man still wants to learn. He is not being arrogant like our old Tun.

This is the best time for the man who championed the Malaysian Malaysia to once again activate the concept after 50 years 'keeping under the ground'. Smartly taking advantage of what is happening in Malaysia and directly assessing the political tribulance whether the PR can take over the federal government in the next GE. Interesting, Najib and co allowed him to visit to so many places and meeting with many people. What's in Najib's mind? For LKY, his objectives achieved with a first hand assessment. Is Malaysia political course is for sure to be changed? LKY knows better because PAP too can't stand for long in power...just like BN.

Thus have I heard, LKY once told the leader from China how capable he was in running Singapore, how glorious Singapore had become etc etc. The Chinese leader promptly told LKY that should a vacancy for a mayor arise in a big city in China, he would give LKY a call.
Talk about a big fish in a small pond!

Well Done PR! Our strong support from Msians gave a strong signal to the world..
i have strong believe PR can take over federak goverment in next GE.

LKY is a dictator who has no respect for the rights and freedoms of its people. I'm sure that's not what Malaysians want, if they knew the truth about this man. He is also a racist.

“I am often accused of interfering in the private lives of citizens. Yes, if I did not, had I not done that, we wouldn’t be here today. And I say without the slightest remorse, that we wouldn’t be here, we would not have made economic progress, if we had not intervened on very personal matters – who your neighbour is, how you live, the noise you make, how you spit, or what language you use. We decide what is right. Never mind what the people think.”
- Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, Straits Times, 20 April 1987

"Three women were brought to the Singapore General Hospital, each in the same
condition and needing a blood transfusion. The first, a Southeast Asian was given the
transfusion but died a few hours later. The second, a South Asian was also given a
transfusion but died a few days later. The third, an East Asian, was given a
transfusion and survived. That is the X factor in development."

http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/lib/ne/lky/raceculturegenes.pdf

The purpose of LKY's visit:

a. To lay foundation for Singapore when 2013 PR takes over the Malaysia gov.

b. To see why people like alternative gov and prevent similar things from happening in singapore

c. What's wrong with BN and how it will affect Singapore.

d. Provide advice to PR state.

I'm sure Malaysian's would not want a dictator like LKY if they knew his true colours and what he's doing in Singapore.

“I am often accused of interfering in the private lives of citizens. Yes, if I did not, had I not done that, we wouldn’t be here today. And I say without the slightest remorse, that we wouldn’t be here, we would not have made economic progress, if we had not intervened on very personal matters – who your neighbour is, how you live, the noise you make, how you spit, or what language you use. We decide what is right. Never mind what the people think.”
- Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, Straits Times, 20 April 1987

Why is it that you allow praises but not criticism of LKY to be posted here? Anyway here I've edited my comment:

If only more Malaysians knew the true nature of LKY.

“I am often accused of interfering in the private lives of citizens. Yes, if I did not, had I not done that, we wouldn’t be here today. And I say without the slightest remorse, that we wouldn’t be here, we would not have made economic progress, if we had not intervened on very personal matters – who your neighbour is, how you live, the noise you make, how you spit, or what language you use. We decide what is right. Never mind what the people think.”
- Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, Straits Times, 20 April 1987

Kimchi,
I believe most Malaysians know what LKY is like, and in spite of this, still accord him respect because he has transformed his country from a provincial backwater with zero natural resources to one of the richest nations in the world.

He is not perfect, but is still miles ahead of any leader we have here.

He is not perfect, no one is.

But does Malaysia want to live in a tightly controlled society? I don't think the Malaysian Law Society, NGOs and activists would feel comfortable in such a regime. Haha, even a protest of ONE person is illegal in Singapore - http://yoursdp.org/index.php/n...t-even-one

There are those who labelled Mr. Lee Kuan Yew a "dictator" and that he runs Singapore like a personal empire and pass on his baton to his son....!
Well...what would those do if they were in Kuan Yew's shoes and was face with an insurmountable problem like Singapore, newly divocred from Malaysia and without natural resources to fall back on?
Lee had no choice then, either ruled Singapore with discipline and with an iron whip and led the people by choice and example or the island kingdom sunk into obvilion...!
If Lee did not led firmly and uncompromisingly, Singapore which was merely a small island and lots of people would be doomed and social unrests would became the order of day.
The success of Singapore today, astounds many critics as well as well-wishes.
Lee's style and clean government have and continue to earn the respects of many people throughout the world.
It is therefore undeniable that without his so often accused "dictorial" methods, Singapore wouldn't be the economic focus of the world and succeed beyond expectation.
Singapore leaders, particularly Lee Kuan Yew, would not rest on their laurels because complacency would be the beginning of the end of SUCCESS.
Hence, I wouldn't labelled Mr. Lee Kuan Yew a dictator but a disciplinarian and endearing no fools Confucianist in whose heart, the continual success of Singapore of utmost interest to the survive of her intelligent, innovative and hard-working people...!
Perhaps Malaysia and many countries in Southeast Asia can learn a lesson in good and dedicated governance from Singapore and the exceptional style of Lee's political and economic beliefs and implementation.

Cheers...!

JUST AN AFTERTHOUGHT...!

If...Mr. Lee Kuan Yew is a "dictator," which I believe and many others too that he is not, then he would not have received the very favourable acclaim, respects, and above all, the ungrudging accoclades from several emminent foreign leaders. How many leaders worldwide are respected and consulted when compared to the international status of Lee, not a even a handful as I may say? Even the "notorious" U.S. President Nixon of the Watergate fame, in one of his many books, after he was indicted and pardoned, wrote that he considered Lee as an immense leader with a very small nation to governor. He even wondered if Lee were in his shoes would give the States enhanced good governance...! It is extremely rare for Nixon, a highly controversial and arrogant politician to write eloquently of an Asian statesman in Lee Kuan Yew. Even Henry Kissinger (former US Secretary of State) has a healthy respect for Lee Kuan Yew too. When Lee Kuan Yew visited England when Harold Wilson was the Prime Minister, he respectfully and perhaps even seriously offered to let Lee Kuan Yew step into his shoes as the leader in No: 10 Downing Street, London. Hence, if Lee were looked upon as a dictator, he would not even earn the respects of a common Singporean walking down the sunny North Bridge Road, perhaps even much less a president and a secretary of state of United Sates and a prime minister of U.K. Even Deng Xiaoping, the once Paramount Leader of the People's Republic of China, in Kuan Yew's 2-vol. memoirs, desired to learn from Lee Kuan Yew's excellent method in raising Singapore from a backwater fishing island to become a financial giant which is recognized and trusted not only in SE Asia but the world at large.
Lee Kuan Yew...a dictator...those detractors and critics must have one drink to much the night before...!
On hindsight, Lee Kuan Yew wouldn't have succeeded in rendering good governance in Singapore, had the majority of inhabitants - the innovative, intelligent, hard-working Chinese - did not willingly do his bidding and taken a great risk to support this "dictator" or simply put, the Saviour of Singapore. Lee Kuan Yew, whether, some like him or not, has proven his worth and his style of governance. One would rather live under this "dictator" than the corrupted and police-sanctioned regime...as we know it here!

Cheers...!

--- Chinese-Canadian

So does that mean it is alright if a government totally controls the press, oppresses the people's right to freedom of speech and assembly, and tortures political detainees under ISA detention - as long as it brings about so called "success"?

Put yourselves in the shoes of the Singaporean activists, opposition and journalists who have been jailed, tortured and bankrupted by Lee Kuan Yew - maybe then, you'll acknowledge why Lee Kuan Yew is indeed a dictator.

And you cite his awards? What about all the criticism of him from dozens of NGOs and organisations like Amnesty International, even the Lawyers Rights Watch of Canada (where you reside in fact).

Abuse of power is abuse of power, no matter which "selected group" of individuals that abuse helped to benefit. If you choose not to recognize that then all I can say is that you don't know the true effect of the dictator you hold in such high regard because you haven't lived in a regime under him.