Emerging from a dark and yew-rich wood, I reached an open down that stretched ahead for two miles.
Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew said the country and its flag-carrier should learn from the disaster.
The yew bushes at the front of my porch, for instance, serve as a winter shelter for chickadees.
It was left to Singapore statesman Lee Kuan Yew to spell out the implications of the Sinatra Principle.
Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore's founding father, and still a cabinet minister, puts his own spin on the changes.
Mahathir ruled as a strongman as did his contemporary to the south, former Singapore Prime Minister Lee Kwan Yew.
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He even dined at the Raffles Hotel with Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew.
Some say that the man bears a strong resemblance to Lee Kuan Yew.
It also has up to 3, 000 plants, 300-year-old Yew trees, and it takes four gardeners three months to trim the hedges.
He is not a man that one likes, but "a man that one respects, " says Singapore's Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew.
Palace owner Lee Kim Yew, an affable man with an enviable talent for business, remained unfazed by the fervor and frazzle.
Mahatma Gandhi, Mohammad Ali Jinnah and Lee Kuan Yew were British-trained lawyers.
The winding yew hedges at Great Dixter had been planted by his father, who had bought the house with his printing fortune.
Pacific yew is the source of Taxol, and the rosy periwinkle is the source of vincristine and vinblastine all drugs used to fight cancer.
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Aspirin, for example, was originally derived from willow bark, and the anticancer drug Taxol comes from the bark of the Pacific yew tree.
Or perhaps the century's foremost political leader is Lee Kuan Yew, who almost single-handedly built Singapore into an economically rich and corruption-free society?
Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore's founding father and still its "minister mentor" has maintained that ambitious migrants help to keep citizens on their toes.
One-third of drugs on the market originate in nature, such as cancer drug Taxol, derived from the bark and needles of the yew tree.
Saturday's protest came as news emerged that Singapore's first prime minister, 89-year-old Lee Kuan Yew, has been taken to hospital with a brain-related blockage.
"Speculation has been excessive, " says Chia Yew Boon of Crosby Securities.
Not so, says Lee Kuan Yew, the sage of Singapore.
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Asit Biswas, 70, visiting professor at Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, has advised six heads of UN agencies and 18 governments on water.
After Li's remarks, he sat facing the stage as company President and Editor-in-Chief Steve Forbes brought on Lee Kuan Yew, minister mentor and patriarch of modern Singapore.
Lee is the son of Singapore's founding prime minister, Lee Kwan Yew, who steered the Southeast Asian nation's development for many years while keeping a firm grip on power.
Just as Lee Kuan Yew emerged from the confines of Singapore to become the seer of Asia, so Mr Haq became accepted as one of the visionaries of international development.
This event will take place at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and participants shall include public officials, civil servants, diplomats, researchers, students, and the UN community at large.
The wizard of Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew, continued to cast his spell on the state after he retired as prime minister in 1990, even retaining a place in government as a senior minister.
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