Background story behind why the following post did not appear on Dr. Lee Wei Ling’s regular article on Straits Times but on her Facebook page instead. Lee Kuan Yew would have been distressed by the hero-worship at one year anniversary…
Category: Lee Wei Ling Articles
Collections of Lee Wei Ling’s articles that appears on The Sunday Times over the years.
Lee Kuan Yew’s daughter: I’m a Martian anyway
Dr Lee Wei Ling with her mother, Madam Kwa Geok Choo, in England in 1971, on the occasion of her father receiving honorary doctor of laws degrees at Liverpool and Sheffield universities.PHOTOS: COURTESY OF LEE WEI LING Source: The Straits…
To what end, all the President’s Scholars?
Eight of 11 President’s Scholars from the class of 1972 are seen here with then President Benjamin Sheares (centre) at the Istana. They are (from left) Lim Hng Kiang, Lim Teik Hock, Chan Seng Onn, Lee Wei Ling, Lee Bee…
Dr Lee Wei Ling on honouring the late Mr Lee Kuan Yew: ‘Honour the spirit of what Papa stood for’
That would be the best response to his passing, says Lee Kuan Yew’s daughter Source: The Straits Times Apr 19, 2015 That Mr Lee Kuan Yew did not want his house preserved is obvious from his will, says Dr Lee…
Advertisement
admin
Posted in Articles and Speeches, Dirty Politics, Dismal State of Singapore Traffic Police and LTA, Famous and Infamous Quotes, Lee Wei Ling Articles, Medical Boo-boos, Miscellaeous, Ngiam Tong Dow Articles, Sex in The City, Social Ills in Singapore, Ugly Singaporeans, What's New
[banner id=”2530″]
Do more for the less fortunate
Source: The Sunday Times, 17 Jul 2011 “Small successes like this make being a doctor a privilege – not the pay, not the status” “But considering how little we do to help people like the three patients I have described,…
Scaling beyond life’s limit
Askmelah’s Note: while I applaud Dr Lee’s conscientiousness and righteousness and her genuity in wanting to help Jacqueline Woo, I shudder to think some powerful politicians or tycoons will be able to influence decision makers much like what is happening…
Many important lessons on life come not from textbooks but from real people
Source: The Sunday Times, 21 Dec 2008 In 1983, I was training as a neurology resident at Massachusetts General Hospital, the premier Harvard-affiliated hospital that some termed ‘Man’s Greatest Hospital’. This was where the rich and powerful came to seek…
Steer kids away from materialistic culture early
Source: The Sunday Times, Oct 21, 2012 By Lee Wei Ling It was an advertisement in this paper: a boy, probably five years old, grinning widely and holding a computer game controller. “I want a room full of video games…
When tuition was optional
Something’s not right when kids today must have tuition for what is taught in school By Lee Wei Ling, Source: The Sunday Times, 23 Sep 2012 A topic that has been debated heatedly recently is whether tuition is good…
Top
Recent Comments