RTN.asia, 9 Sep 3022Lee Kwan-Yew, the World's longest serving prime minister and the architect of modern Singapore, sees India's rise as a welcome development, but felt the Indians were a sensitive lot who had to be handled carefully.
Lee also expressed his worries about Malaysia, which he called a "divided society" thanks to race politics, according to a US diplomatic cable leaked by Wikileaks.
Lee, a tough administrator widely credited for evolving an equally tough form of democracy and credited with bringing down corruption and heralding the rise of Singapore, was sharing his views with Senator Kit Bong, the vice-chairman of the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Full story
