Singapore's PM Lee Passes Torch to Finance Minister Wong

Announcement of November 2024 handover ends months of uncertainty

Nov 05, 2023

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By: Andy Wong Ming Jun

The announcement today by Singapore’s Lee Hsien Loong that he would step down as the country’s third prime minister by November 21, 2024, brings down a tentative curtain on what is one of the longest-running political succession convolutions in Southeast Asia for what is sometimes described as the “Lee Dynasty.”

Lee Hsien Loong, the…

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