MINISTER Mentor Lee Kuan Yew, the founder of modern Singapore,
is frail but well, and intends to start travelling again, his son,
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, said on Tuesday.
'The years take their toll,' the prime minister told Reuters
about his father.
'He is well, he is frailer than before but his mind is still all
there and he has been travelling and I think he intends to travel
again'.
The elder Lee is 87 and his wife, Madam Kwa Geok Choo of 60
years died last month. Many Singaporeans worry that MM Lee may not
survive his wife by long and are concerned about what effect that
could have on government and policy. He was briefly admitted to
hospital recently for a chest infection.
'Well, we will survive,' Mr Lee Hsien Loong said in an interview
with Reuters. 'The system has been established, the people have
been put in place. He gives us the benefit of his considerable
experience and wisdom which we take very seriously.
'But finally we have to decide what to do and we have to carry
the message to the population. It is our challenge and soon the
challenge of the next generation of leaders, who have to emerge'.
-- REUTERS
