Photo: Michael Nagle/Mauricio Palos/David Kawai/Bloomberg News Lee Kuan Yew, the founder of modern Singapore and the creator of the economic miracle there, was a famously strict ruler. Considered ...

Synopsis: Every first Friday of the month, The Straits Times catches up with its foreign correspondents about life and trends in the countries they’re based in. Trichy in southern India has no ...

There are lessons to be emulated from how the late Tun Abdul Razak Hussein sought to reunite the people after the original system broke down in 1969. MALAYSIA’S second Prime Minister Tun Abdul ...

> The Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Singapore Management University is inviting applications for the 12th edition of its flagship event, the LKYGBPC. > This year’s competition ...

One of Asia’s most globally representative and exciting deep-tech start-up competitions, the 12th Lee Kuan Yew Global Business Plan Competition (LKYGBPC), has opened its call for applications ...

1MDB TRIAL | Former prime minister Najib Abdul Razak denied his 2016 telephone conversation with then deputy public prosecutor Dzulkifli Ahmad amounted to interfering in the investigation into 1MDB.

He’s had enough playing with it. If I had to mention one leader (Abdoolcarim interviewed for Time) who left the biggest impression, it would be Lee Kuan Yew. In 2005, when Lee was about 82 years ...

The appointment follows the resignation of Samuel Awuku as the Director-General of the NLA on January 13, 2025. In a formal letter addressed to President John Mahama, Mr Awuku expressed his ...

Lee Kuan Yew was a politician, lawyer, and the first prime minister of Singapore, serving from 1959 to 1990. Often regarded as the architect of modern Singapore, Lee transformed the small ...

1MDB TRIAL | Former prime minister Najib Abdul Razak testified that the change in attorney-general in 2015 has nothing to do with an alleged draft criminal charge against him which was in ...

The Tennessee Titans have an intriguing choice at No. 1 in the 2025 NFL Draft: they could take a quarterback to take over for Will Levis, or they could take the best player available and wait for ...

KUALA LUMPUR: In a country where political drama is as common as the tropical heat, Malaysia finds itself embroiled in yet another controversy surrounding its former prime minister, Najib Razak.