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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Do hope your news is real I hate to pop the champagne prematurely. :)
ding dong!......the witch is dead!......
-Nigel Lai
real or not? nair dun bluff bluff... link leh .. woo hoo if its true !
Sources?
You drunk?
Where did you get the reports from, Mr. Nair?
This is interesting! Tell us your source because nothing heard or buzzing in Singapore about this.
Hi Gopalan,
How true is this?
any more update?
Are you sure!?!?
What is your source?
What reports are you referring to?
can you be more specific on your sources? any pics to date? here in spore...no news leh? if this is true ,you will be famous for breaking this story 1st..tks
1000+twitterers here in singapore(ages 18-35) are standing by for your more breaking news...despite skepticism tweets coming in now...ie..joshua barker tan..Smlj LKY x Massive Attack? Where are the reports and sources Gopalan Nair is referring to?..."
So we are soooo ready to tweet yr news out if you can at least substantiate yr blog aticle asap..tks
bullshit
Dear Gopalan,
I find this a bit difficult to believe. But then again, there could always be a media blackout, and that news of police activity at SGH could be true.
Can you be certain that the sources from which you got your news are credible?
Sam
No offence but your report sound like something out from a B movie. So far there is no report of protest on official or non-official media. I am not doubting your sources but the information is a bit too detailed. It looks like someone working in the hospital leaked the news!
Are you sure? I'm not getting any news of this in Singapore..
Also, do you know Walter Woon just stepped down as AG in less than 2 years of taking the post? Can you guess why Mr Gopalan?
Take care, best of luck.
liar?
Reads like Orson Welles' 'War of The Worlds' radio show.
Panic in the streets and the like.
(Hope that's not the intent of this post...)
I hope Mr LKY is well.
Ans as much as no one lives forever, I pray for peace in Singapore and for good people to take leader when that time should come.
God bless.
Where/what is your source?
You are making this up, right?
lol
So... what have you done for Singapore? At least LKY has done something for the nation.
okay where are your sources for all this?
can you state who are the sources of your information.
if this turns out to be a hoax your credibility is gone forever
GN, love your blog. Hope you're not making this up, because I'm about to buy lots and lots of champagne!
:)
Sorry to disappoint you, but MM Lee is still in great health, and he is much better shape that you fat boy! You should watch your high blood and cholestrol levels....you will probably die before MM Lee does
bullshit spotted!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
how do we verify this claim? I wouldn't put it past the MSM to do what the North Korean media did of their little emperor but Singapore's a small place. If this were through, there should be a run on the SGX and the banks.
how do you know these in the first place ? please dont create false hope for the people
"Orchard Road and Patterson Road junction holding placards
reading "Democracy" and "Down With the Dictator" and chanting slogans."
This is utter bullshit. I stay at paterson road and i have yet to see any of these.What kind of a stun are you trying to pull here?
Brilliant!!
Drive traffic to your web site. Get people to tweet.
BTW, I agree with one of the posters who called you a fat boy - given your weight, and the Indian-genes to cardia illness, LKY may outlive you.
Go Fat Boy go. Give them hell.
Gopal,
As much as I wish to offer you that benefit of doubt, you do realise that you're integrity (at the human level) is at stake here.
Best regards.
Michael
The older people in Singapore have benefited from LKY's policies.
But the young are so screwed:
(1) Have to serve NS with the loss of 2 years
(2)CPF suffering from losses at GIC and TH
(3)Can't afford HDB housing
(4) Losing jobs to FTs.
Ouch!!
Once LKY dies, the fear factor in Singapore will disappear for time immemorial.
Everyone will sit at the kopitiams and talk their shit out against the LHL.
The death of LKY brings with it the death of all his fear machinery. There is no fearmonger to answer to. And we can all relax a little, knowing that the air is fresher once again.
The first thing I want to abolish is this fucking pseudo ELITISM that they have constructed as a vanguard for rational discourse, making politics almost a hand-me-down priviledge and a taboo topic for the masses.
Why did you do this?
it is disgusting for u to write all these here, even though it is your personal blog. What u wrote is malicious n simply shamelessly with every bad intention to harm any Singaporeans. You were born in singapore, n u shld b ashamed of urself for doing this.
knn, all you people believe him huh???
he is a "kek leng" lah, it is people like him that make all "kek leng" untrustworthly
I think I just came in my pants.
If it isn't true, no worries. Thanks for making my day.
It is a pity LKY still lives - hahaha!
Otherwise, the elite Singaporeans will be busy doing things to show how much they "love" the cult leader.
Everyone of them will set new allegiance with the Dear Leader.
The Anonymous (Sun Mar 07, 05:30:00 PM PST), what do you tink (sic)?
Let me guess...
"not even a Singaporean." (Sun Mar 07, 04:43:00 PM PST) is the reason why Singaporeans vote in PAP in every election.
It seems that only the Opposition is malicious and shameless. But if it is the PAP doing the same dirty tactics, he or she will shut 2 eyes at the crimes, because police don't catch them, and the 144th report the news, bias with their approvals and justifications.
ex-Singaporeans like me are horrified by the dirty deeds of the PAP towards the Opposition.
But in general, Singaporeans are blind to such acts, even thinking that the Opposition deserve them because they have ulterior motives.
Shame on the "educated" Singaporeans!
Poor Opposition. Misunderstood. Your sacrifice are in vain!
April is still far away.
good article! nice scenerio & yes indeed, why not get notice in such manner, come to think of it, is on Sun Tzu strategy...& whoever think is 'underhand', think again, this regime is more underhand than anyone else, and in war fare, borrow the terrain to your advantage & not the other way round..
Make this come true. But a heart attack would be too easy a death for this old bastard. He should be alive to bury his own son first.
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