• Born in setember 16 , 1923
• he was a fourth-generation Chinese Singaporean (a hakka family)
• his family migrated to singapore in mid-19th century
• Singapore 1st Prime minister (june 1959-November 1990)
• Educated at Telok Kurau Primary School, Raffles Institution, and Raffles College.
• Excelled in his studies and emerged top student in Singapore and Malaya in the Senior Cambriged Examination in 1939.
• His university education was delayed by World War II and the 1942–45 Japanese occupation of Singapore
.• During the occupation, he served as a clerk and operated a successful black market business selling a tapioca-based glue called Stikfas. And later a cable editor. Having taken Chinese and Japanese lessons since 1942, he was able to work as a transcriber of Allied wire reports for the Japanese, as well as being the English-language editor on the Japanese Hodobu (報道部 — an information or propaganda department) from 1943 to 1944
.• It was the awakening of his potential .
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• After the war, he studied law at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge in the United Kingdom, of which he was subsequently made an honorary fellow, (graduating with Double Starred First Class honours)
• He then briefly attended the London School of Economics.
• He was a member of the malayan forum together with Dr.Goh Keng Swee and Dr.Toh Chin Chye .
• He returned to Singapore in 1949 to work as a lawyer .
• Became legal adviser to a no. of trade unions and clan associations .
• Represented a group of Chinese-Educated middle school students in their appeal against a conviction for rioting against the National service Ordinance in May 1954.
•In 1954 , Laycock and Ong, the legal practice of John Laycock, a pioneer of multiracialism who, together with A.P. Rajah and C.C. Tan, had founded Singapore's first multiracial club open to Asians.Formation of the People's Action Party (PAP)
• November 21, 1954, Lee, together with a group of fellow English-educated middle-class men whom he himself described as “beer-swilling bourgeois” formed the socialist People's Action Party (PAP - 人民行动党) in an expedient alliance with the pro-communist trade unionists.
• This alliance was described by Lee as a marriage of convenience, since the English-educated group needed the pro-communists’ mass support base while the communists needed a non-communist party leadership as a smoke screen because the Malayan Communist Party is illegal. Their common aims were to agitate for self-government and put an end to British colonial rule. An inaugural conference was held at the Victoria Memorial Hall, packed with over 1,500 supporters and trade unionists. Lee became secretary-general, a post he held until 1992, save for a brief period in 1957. UMNO’s Tunku Abdul Rahman and MCA’s Tan Cheng Lock were invited as guests to give credibility to the new party
• Mr.Lee was elected into the Legislative Assembly in the 1955 and represented Tanjong Pagar , a consituency he continues to represts as of 2006 .In a landslide victory in the 1959 election , he became a prime minister at the age of 35 .
• Mr.Lee saw Singapore through the years of merger and separation with Malaya , and the challenges of being a small independent nation .
• stepped down as prime minister in favour of Mr.Goh Chok Tong in 1990 .
• continued an important role as senior minister from 1990to 2004 and Minister Mentor from 2004 . More about his memoirs at and works can be read from his memoirs
• he was a fourth-generation Chinese Singaporean (a hakka family)
• his family migrated to singapore in mid-19th century
• Singapore 1st Prime minister (june 1959-November 1990)
• Educated at Telok Kurau Primary School, Raffles Institution, and Raffles College.
• Excelled in his studies and emerged top student in Singapore and Malaya in the Senior Cambriged Examination in 1939.
• His university education was delayed by World War II and the 1942–45 Japanese occupation of Singapore
.• During the occupation, he served as a clerk and operated a successful black market business selling a tapioca-based glue called Stikfas. And later a cable editor. Having taken Chinese and Japanese lessons since 1942, he was able to work as a transcriber of Allied wire reports for the Japanese, as well as being the English-language editor on the Japanese Hodobu (報道部 — an information or propaganda department) from 1943 to 1944
.• It was the awakening of his potential .
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• After the war, he studied law at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge in the United Kingdom, of which he was subsequently made an honorary fellow, (graduating with Double Starred First Class honours)
• He then briefly attended the London School of Economics.
• He was a member of the malayan forum together with Dr.Goh Keng Swee and Dr.Toh Chin Chye .
• He returned to Singapore in 1949 to work as a lawyer .
• Became legal adviser to a no. of trade unions and clan associations .
• Represented a group of Chinese-Educated middle school students in their appeal against a conviction for rioting against the National service Ordinance in May 1954.
•In 1954 , Laycock and Ong, the legal practice of John Laycock, a pioneer of multiracialism who, together with A.P. Rajah and C.C. Tan, had founded Singapore's first multiracial club open to Asians.Formation of the People's Action Party (PAP)
• November 21, 1954, Lee, together with a group of fellow English-educated middle-class men whom he himself described as “beer-swilling bourgeois” formed the socialist People's Action Party (PAP - 人民行动党) in an expedient alliance with the pro-communist trade unionists.
• This alliance was described by Lee as a marriage of convenience, since the English-educated group needed the pro-communists’ mass support base while the communists needed a non-communist party leadership as a smoke screen because the Malayan Communist Party is illegal. Their common aims were to agitate for self-government and put an end to British colonial rule. An inaugural conference was held at the Victoria Memorial Hall, packed with over 1,500 supporters and trade unionists. Lee became secretary-general, a post he held until 1992, save for a brief period in 1957. UMNO’s Tunku Abdul Rahman and MCA’s Tan Cheng Lock were invited as guests to give credibility to the new party
• Mr.Lee was elected into the Legislative Assembly in the 1955 and represented Tanjong Pagar , a consituency he continues to represts as of 2006 .In a landslide victory in the 1959 election , he became a prime minister at the age of 35 .
• Mr.Lee saw Singapore through the years of merger and separation with Malaya , and the challenges of being a small independent nation .
• stepped down as prime minister in favour of Mr.Goh Chok Tong in 1990 .
• continued an important role as senior minister from 1990to 2004 and Minister Mentor from 2004 . More about his memoirs at and works can be read from his memoirs
