Lee's younger son Lee Hsien Yang, too, marked his father's passing on social media, while at the same time reiterating his call for the demolishment of the latter's residence at 38 Oxley Road.

Close to midnight on Wednesday, Lee Hsien Yang posted on his Facebook page that he was conveying a message from his late sibling: “My father’s, Lee Kuan Yew, and my mother’s, Kwa Geok Choo ...

Lee Hsien Yang, who has been granted political refugee ... The veneer is quite thin,” he said in an interview in London on Monday. “Beneath that there is a repressive nature to that regime ...