Lee Kuan Yew’s Home Turned Into National Monument

Kuan Yew’s son slams govt over plan to preserve family home

The city state's plan to preserve founding prime minister Lee Kuan Yew's home as a national monument was condemned by his youngest son, fuelling a bitter, years‑long family dispute over the legacy of Singapore's founding leader.

Lee Kuan Yew’s Home Turned Into National Monument

By: Toh Han ShihIn a saga marked by what appears to be the irreparable fracture of founding leader Lee Kuan Yew’s family, the Singapore government has announced its intention to preserve the house of the revered former prime minister as a national monument, the denouement of a Singaporean version of a Greek tragedy. Lee’s children and grandchildren remain at loggerheads, members of the clan fleeing abroad amid sanctions and defamation suits, and…