Environmental and pollution could ruin one of the philippines tourism hot spots. Singapore people are in mourning for their countrys founding father of mooe mooe died at age 91 and credited with transforming the island into a Global Financial center and criticized for being undemocratic and authoritarian as Nicole Johnston reports. Reporter without lee kuan yew it may not be what it existed and he was a chinese singapore saw his home land occupied first by the british then japanese and after training as a lawyer in britain he was Prime Minister in 1959 a post he would hold for 39 years and with a ruthless style of politics singapore was independent against its will kicked out of malaysia in 1965 against a back drop of racial tension and a fearful lee kuan yew contemplated a bleak future. With geography and economics and ties of kinship. Reporter sentiment gave way to pragmatism and he was unflinching to bring prosperity to his country and under leadship it was transformed from an islan