Ep. 357 | The History of Singapore (Part 9)

The China History Podcast

Laszlo Montgomery

Places & Travel, Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In its hour of need, quite a few leaders rose to the occasion in Singapore. Lee Kuan Yew didn't transform the nation by himself. Last time we saw how S. Rajaratnam carried the flag around the world and advanced Singapore diplomatically. In this episode, I'll also introduce Dutch economist Dr. Albert Winsemius and his good advice. Winsemius suggested a number of priorities for Singapore to gain some economic traction. The man who had to make these ideas happen in real life was Dr. Goh Keng Swee. We'll look at Dr. Goh's life and contribution to Singapore's first decades as a country. He served in several ministries of the government and made profound changes wherever he served. We'll close out the episode with the retirement of the first generation of Singapore leaders. We'll conclude the series next time in Part 10 where we'll take things up to our day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:54.9	This is your host, Alasala Montgomery, back with another episode in our little overview of Singapore,
0:57.6	the penultimate episode in this series.
1:05.9	Last time we made it to Singapore independence, August 9th, 1965, after what turned out to be irreconcilable differences.
1:08.5	The marriage between Singapore and Malaysia failed, and they called the whole thing off.
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