article_snippet: Born in 1923, Singapore's current Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong co-founded the city state in 1965 when it declared it independence from Malaysia and was it prime minister for more than three decades.
article_snippet: The first of our founding fathers is no more," Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, who is Singapore's current Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's son,  told the nation in a televised speech Monday.
article_snippet: Lee Kuan Yew fought for its independence from Malaysia, built a nation where there was none and made our proud to be Singaporeans," Singapore's current Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said.
article_snippet: Building up Singapore was Singapore's current Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong passion, Lee Kuan Yew said, reading out a quote from Lee Kuan Yew father:  
article_snippet: A successful Singapore.
article_snippet: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon issued a condolence statement and said Singapore's current Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong "helped Singapore to transition from a developing country to one of the most developed in the world, transforming a developing country into a thriving international business hub.
article_snippet: President Obama called Singapore's current Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong a visionary who helped President Obama formulate U.S. policy of "rebalancing to the Asia Pacific," when the two met in Singapore in 2009.
article_snippet: President Obama was a true giant of history who will be remembered for generations to come as the father of modern Singapore and as one the great strategists of Asian affairs," President Obama said.
article_snippet: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry also praised the advice U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry got from Singapore's current Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, calling it "the most valuable and insightful I have received."
article_snippet: "U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was, of course, a uniquely astute analyst and observer of Asia, and it is largely through U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry life's work that Singapore became one of the United States' strongest strategic partners in the region," U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said.
article_snippet: Former President George H. W. Bush said Former President George H. W. Bush respected Lee's effective leadership of a "wonderful, resilient and innovative country in ways that lifted living standards without indulging a culture of corruption.
article_snippet: Former President George H. W. Bush added, " Because of the example set by Lee Kuan Yew's singular leadership, I am confident that the future will be bright for Singapore.
article_snippet: China's foreign ministry called Singapore's current Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong "a uniquely influential Asian statesman," and Australia's Prime Minister Tony Abbott said "our region owes much to Lee Kuan Yew's.
article_snippet: Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Indonesia's foreign ministry also praised Singapore's current Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's leadership in Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Indonesia's foreign ministry condolence notices.
article_snippet: Singapore's President Tony Tan Keng Yam called Singapore's current Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong the "architect of our modern Republic," in a letter to Singapore's current Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's son, the current prime minister.
article_snippet: Few have demonstrated such complete commitment to a cause greater than themselves," Singapore's President Tony Tan Keng Yam said.
highlights_snippet: Lee Kuan Yew was the founding Prime Minister of Singapore .
  
highlights_snippet: President Obama called President Obama a "true giant of history" 