{"id":136,"date":"2015-03-17T01:57:31","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T01:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?p=136"},"modified":"2015-03-20T02:03:35","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T02:03:35","slug":"condition-of-singapores-founding-leader-lee-worsens-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?p=136","title":{"rendered":"Condition of Singapore&#8217;s founding leader Lee worsens: PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/lee.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/lee.jpg\" alt=\"lee\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-137\" \/><\/a>The health of Singapore&#8217;s founding leader and ex-prime minister Lee Kuan Yew has &#8220;worsened&#8221; due to an infection, the government said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Lee, 91, has been hospitalised at the Singapore General Hospital since February 5 for severe pneumonia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mr Lee Kuan Yew\u2019s condition has worsened due to an infection. He is on antibiotics. The doctors are closely monitoring his condition,&#8221; said a statement from the office of his son, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.<\/p>\n<p>The senior Lee is widely credited with transforming Singapore from an economic backwater to one of Asia&#8217;s wealthiest economies in just over three decades.<\/p>\n<p>He served as prime minister from 1959, when Singapore gained self-rule from colonial ruler Britain, until he stepped down in 1990 in favour of his deputy Goh Chok Tong, who in turn handed power to Lee Hsien Loong in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>The People&#8217;s Action Party, which was co-founded by the elder Lee, has been returned to power in every election since 1959 and currently holds 80 of the 87 seats in parliament.<\/p>\n<p>In a book published in 2013, the Asian statesman said he feels weaker by the day and wants a quick death.<\/p>\n<p>The longtime fitness buff has visibly slowed since his wife of 63 years Kwa Geok Choo died in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Source: AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The health of Singapore&#8217;s founding leader and ex-prime minister Lee Kuan Yew has &#8220;worsened&#8221; due&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":137,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[5,9,10,6,33,2],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/lee.jpg",259,194,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/lee-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/lee.jpg",259,194,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/lee.jpg",259,194,false],"large":["https:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/lee.jpg",259,194,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/lee.jpg",259,194,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/lee.jpg",259,194,false],"enternews-featured":["https:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/lee.jpg",259,194,false],"enternews-medium":["https:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/lee.jpg",259,194,false],"enternews-thumbnail":["https:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/lee.jpg",259,194,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?cat=4\" rel=\"category\">Stories<\/a>","tag_info":"Stories","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138,"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions\/138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}