The Star Online, 19 Jun 2009, P. GUNASEGARAM
The past shows that this is a tricky, tortuous process with plenty of pitfalls.
SOMETIMES it takes a generational change in leadership before new, better and more meaningful relations can be forged between nations. The presence of older leaders tends to set the same old record playing in the same old groove to the same old song.
Lee Kuan Yew retired as first Prime Minister of independent Singapore in 1990. But some 19 years later, he continues to have huge influence over the running of Singapore through his Cabinet position of Minister Mentor
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