IT IS THE PAP that transformed this Tiny Whiny Fishing Village into Modern Singapore.
Mr Lee Kuan Yew was Singapore’s first Prime Minister and an integral figure in transforming the fishing village into the cosmopolitan financial centre spotting a first world skyline it is now. During his premiership, he led Singapore through its merger with Malaysia and later separation and independence in year 1965.
The country blossomed into a first world economic hub and the PAP also won the General Elections 8 times under his leadership. In 1990 he was appointed as Senior Minister and later Minister Mentor in 2004.
He has since left cabinet after the 2011 Singapore General Elections to allow the current Prime Minister and also his son, Mr Lee Hsien Loong and his team to govern the country.
SUPPORT THE PAP. We will now start to transform into a MEGA CITY which the WHOLE WORLD WILL ENVY!
blind moron. read this :
Tan Kim Seng (b.1805 - d. 14 March 1864, Malacca, Malaya), a third-generation Straits Chinese, was a wealthy trader and property owner with business interests in tin. A prominent philanthropist, Tan left behind memorials of his philanthropic acts in Singapore and Malacca
Tan donated $13,000 to the government for the construction of Singapore’s first reservoir and waterworks. The waterworks were completed in 1877 and officially opened the following year.
In Singapore, during the 1950s and 1960s, there were two studio houses, Cathay and Shaw.
1. These studio houses owned production lots (Shaw had Malay Film Productions - MFP at Jalan Ampas and Cathay Keris had its production lot at Jalan Keris on the east coast).
2. They had their own stable of actors who worked only with them (eg P. Ramlee only worked with Shaw, not Cathay).
3. The studios owned their own cinemas in which they showed their own films, as well as the Hollywood blockbusters. Shaw cinemas did not show Cathay films, and vice versa.
4. These studios functioned as complete creative units, in which their films could not be attributed just to the effort of one individual, such as a director. Quite often there were Chinese producers working with Indian directors and camera crew filming Malay actors. However, there was no strict division of labour. The most talented director was Hussein Haniff who worked for Cathay Keris, but the multi-talented P. Ramlee combined acting, directing, and singing.
5. The individuals who ran the studio houses resembled the powerful, eccentric, and creative characters who ran the studios of Hollywood. Shaw was headed by the movie moguls’, the Shaw Brothers, and Cathay was headed by Loke Wan Tho.
just these 2 examples show clearly sillypoore was already a well developed place before your master ascent the throne.