Ladies and Gentlemen,
According to latest reports received from Singapore a few minutes
ago, the 87 year old Singapore strongman, Lee Kuan Yew, had
suffered a massive heart attack at 9.34 pm yesterday Singapore
time.
He is reported to be presently in the Intensive Care Cardiac Unit
of the Singapore General Hospital under sedation and respiration,
carefully watched by a team of doctors, with his son whom he
appointed the Prime Minister and his 2 other children beside
him.
It is understood his wife is also in the same hospital in a coma
now for several years.
It is uncertain if he can recover at his age, and the pacemaker
which he has in his heart is believed to have contributed to
it.
According to reports, the pacemaker malfunctioned triggering this
massive heart attack.
With the entire country run by this one man, the fear that business
leaders and bankers had for very long may have finally come true;
that such a happening can destroy the business confidence and cause
total destruction in the small island city state.
The reason for the lack of confidence is due to the general lack of
confidence in his son's, the prime minister's capacity to govern
thereby creating a power vacuum with no single person able to
assume control in the island.
In fact reports have been coming in that some investors have
already started transferring their funds overseas creating a fear
there could be a run on the banks.
There are reports that several top officials who have amassed
fortunes under Lee Kuan Yew's patronage and connections have begun
to have the jitters and started moving their funds overseas.
A few high ranking civil servants and judges who were responsible
for human rights abuses against his political opponents have also
been on alert ready to leave the island any minute.
Reports have also been coming in that peaceful protesters and
demonstrators have begun assembling in small pockets at the Geylang
and Mountbatten Road junction and the Orchard Road and Patterson
Road junction holding placards
reading "Democracy" and "Down With the Dictator" and chanting
slogans.
The situation is very fluid and I will be reporting on the
situation as it unfolds. There have been numerous telephone calls
to the Prime Ministers Office and the Singapore newspaper the
Straits Times for information.
Gopalan Nair
Fremont, California
March 06, 2010
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