Rubbish Website States Times Review continues to produce more crap

Alex Tan Zhixiang, hidding behind his website "States Times Review", continues to pour scorn on the late Lee Kuan Yew. Here is the full text of what he posted on 6 Dec 2015.

"Singapore government-controlled state media, The Straits Times, today named the recently-deceased dictator of Singapore Lee Kuan Yew "Asian of the Year".

Despite twists and selective reporting made by the ruling party PAP and its state media, Lee Kuan Yew was a power grubber who sold out his former PAP founder comrades and jailed anyone who criticised him. During Singapore's founding years, Lee Kuan Yew made himself Prime Minister for 26 years and subsequently plotted to let his son take over the premiership. His son Lee Hsien Loong is now the current 12-year Prime Minister and his daughter-in-law is the CEO of the state's sovereign wealth fund company Temasek Holdings.

Lee Hsien Loong's government has been trying to promote Lee Kuan Yew and immortalize his position in Singapore but setting up schools, awards named after him and even statues of him in Madame Tussauds, SUTD and Parliament House. However Lee Kuan Yew is at best recognised only locally in Singapore and not worldwide. He was never nominated for any international awards like Nobel Peace Prize.

Criticisms of Lee Kuan Yew today warrant a jail term, as exemplified by a 16 year old Youtuber, Amos Yee, in May this year. Celebrations of his death is a taboo in Singapore and largely hushed-up as pro-government supporters are vengeful and, in Amos Yee's case, violent. Singaporeans live largely in fear and avoid criticisms of the powerful Lee oligarchy, resulting in widespread political apathy and ignorance."


I wonder if living in Sydney has somehow impaired his intelligence, or perhaps he is simply not up to date with the news.

There are so many lies in his post that it would require an entire essay to refute them all.

But instead, I'll just start with this one.


Alex Tan claims that:
"... However Lee Kuan Yew is at best recognised only locally in Singapore and not worldwide. He was never nominated for any international awards like Nobel Peace Prize. ..."


Is the Nobel Prize the "be all and end all" of awards? Guess what you ignorant piece of crap, there were many other notable people who did not receive the Nobel prize too. Mohandas Gandhi was nominated 5 times but was never awarded. Even then, the Nobel Prizes, especially the Peace prize, have always been mired with controversy.

And Alex Tan must really be an ignoramus living in his own world if he really thinks that Lee Kuan Yew is only recognized locally.

Extracted From Lee Kuan Yew's Wikipedia page:

Lee received a number of state decorations, including: 

• Order of the Companions of Honour (1970) (UK / Commonwealth)
• Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (1972) (UK) 
• Freedom of the City of London (1982) (UK)
• Seri Paduka Mahkota Johor (1984), the Order of Great Leader (1988) (Johore, Malaysia)
• Order of the Rising Sun (1967) (Japan)

Lee was named one of Time's Most Influential People of the 20th Century (1999)

In 2002, Lee was formally admitted to the Fellowship of Imperial College London in recognition of his promotion of international trade and industry, and development of science and engineering study initiatives with the UK.

In 2007, Lee was conferred an honorary Doctorate in Law at the Australian National University in Canberra.

In October 2009, Lee was conferred the first Lifetime Achievement award by the US-Asean Business Council at its 25th anniversary gala dinner in Washington, DC. 

In his tribute, the former United States Secretary of State and 1973 Nobel Peace Prize winner Henry Kissinger said:He has become a seminal figure for all of us. I've not learned as much from anybody as I have from Mr Lee Kuan Yew. He made himself an indispensable friend of the United States, not primarily by the power he represented but by the quality of his thinking. 

Meeting the US President at the Oval Office in the White House a day later, Barack Obama introduced him as "one of the legendary figures of Asia in the 20th and 21st centuries. He is somebody who helped to trigger the Asian economic miracle."

On 15 November 2009, Lee was awarded the Russian Order of Friendship by President Dmitry Medvedev on the sidelines of APEC Singapore 2009.

On 29 April 2010, Lee was named in the TIME 100 list as one of the people who most affect our world. He was profiled as a Thinker.

Lee Kuan Yew has received  more prizes, titles, awards and international recognition than Alex Tan would ever be able to achieve even if he was given 3 lifetimes.

And even in death, Lee Kuan Yew has been dearly missed, and had the condolences from international leaders, business leaders but most significantly, the average Singaporeans.

So, don't believe everything you read from that trashy States Times Review website. It's simply full of crap and frankly, it really assumes that its readers are morons who lap up everything it says.