Singapore has announced it plans to turn late prime minister Lee Kuan Yew’s former home into a national monument, opening a fresh chapter in the long-running feud between family members of the city-state’s modern-day founder.
The fate of the house at 38 Oxley Road is a controversial subject in Singapore, which was transformed from a developing country into one of the world’s richest nations under Lee’s leadership.
The late prime minister’s two surviving children have been locked in a dispute for the past decade over whether the colonial-era family home should be razed or turned into a memorial, a quarrel that has been played out in public and captivated the country’s population.