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Remembering Lee Kuan Yew: Daughter Lee Wei Ling on Mr Lee as a father
https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/remembering-lee-kuan-yew-daughter-lee-wei-ling-on-mr-lee-as-a-father

- Dr Lee Wei Ling was the only daughter of Lee Kuan Yew

- She was 60 in 2015

- She was director of the National Neuroscience Institute in 2015

- She had previously written articles about her family life in The Sunday Times

- In her essay "My father was a workaholic," Dr. Ling felt that 1) LKY's strong-willed temperament caused strife in family life with her, 2) in 2002, this conflict caused her to move out of LKY's home and into her brother's (at age 47), 3) Dr. Ling exercises quite a lot (and excessively in her father's opinion!)

- In her essay "At Oxley Road, we live a frugal life," she notes 1) that she embraces frugality both because, "Frugality is a virtue that my parents inculcated in me," and due to Buddhist inclinations, 2) she was raised at a level of frugality that included being careful about light switches and repairing things ad infinitum

- In her essay "Living a life with no regrets," she notes that 1) she chose to remain single to support her parents in old age

- In her essay, "Love does indeed spring eternal," she notes that 1) she chose not to make her parents aware of the probability of re-bleeds out of filial duty despite her knowledge of this fact

- In her essay, "Remembering the childhood years," she notes that 1) "Our parents were firm but they never put pressure on their three children to perform well", 2) as of 1959, the family had two Chinese maids (amah), 3) her parents told her not to behave like a politician's child, 4) she got a "double promotion" from Primary 1 to Primary 3, 5) she gave the graduation speech in Primary 6, 6) she was taught Malay by Chegu Amin in accordance with her father's desire that she be trilingual, 7) She did cross-country and swimming, 8) she was awarded the President's Scholarship in 1973 as the best science student in Singapore

Lee Kuan Yew's daughter: I'm a Martian anyway
https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/lee-kuan-yews-daughter-im-a-martian-anyway

- by age 60, she was former director of the National Neuroscience Institute

- she historically avoided photographs

- she is a Hakka woman and defines herself as such

- she is viewed as tough and at times pugnacious, as evidenced by her written arguments against Mr. Philip Yeo and retail magnate Tang Wee Sung

- she does not believe in tough 2-language standard in educational testing because it screens out good candidates

- she wrote over 180 articles and letters between 2003 and 2015, largely in the Strait Times and the Sunday Times. 75 of these were compiled in "A Hakka Woman's Singapore Stories"

- believes in legalizing euthanasia