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It is somewhat ironic that when I was serving the Government as a civil servant, I hardly saw him but, outside of it, as a journalist, I had the privilege to do so on many occasions.
In fact I met him in my first year in The Straits Times in 1989.
Lee kuan yew biography summary worksheet answers
This was at a lunch at the Istana Annexe in a small dining room... There would usually be two or three journalists invited for these lunches.
I have often wondered why he took the trouble to meet young journalists.
Obviously he wanted to influence us, to make us understand his point of view, and he was willing to invest the time to do this. But I also think he wanted to understand our business, the media business, and he did so through these interactions.
Of all the ministers, he invested the most time on journalists, even though you might think that, of all the ministers, he would have many more important issues to deal with.
It shows how he operated. If a thing was important to him, it was worth the time to invest in it, to understand