Malaysia Star, 3 Nov 2012
Lee Hsien Loong may have been groomed by his father Lee Kuan Yew to be the prime minister but nothing could have prepared him for the Singapore of today.
IF Lee Hsien Loong had indeed been groomed for political leadership from childhood as popularly believed, nothing could have prepared him for the Singapore that he leads today.
In particular the change in values wrought by the Internet. Underage prostitution, online pimping, teacher-student affairs, schoolgirls film–ing themselves in the nude, etc are on the rise!
As Prime Minister, he has been finding out about the web’s political — and now increasingly social impacts on society — which is not always to his liking.
The good is often not mentioned by a people maturing faster. Full story