SINGAPOREANS were once exhorted to regard the current 30 years as a second marathon of life, in which everyone who completed could win a prize.“No need to be first, just finish the race and you get a prize,” said the then Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew after he had stepped down as Prime Minister in 1990.
It was his way of rallying the population behind his successor for a new nation-building battle. And what was the reward? A second property. Full story
