Erhu-violin mashup wins Tay Zhi Wen the title of Airbnb’s giggest SG50 fan, a stay at the Esplanade and ticket to the National Day Parade.SINGAPORE, August 10 – It was Tay Zhi Wen mash-up of Happy Birthday and this year’s National Day Song, Our Singapore, with a violin and er-hu that knocked the judges socks off, giving her the win over 168 other contestants vying for the title of SG50’s biggest fan.
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Lee Wei Ling, herself a doctor, wrote in a column for the Straits Times newspaper a day after Singapore celebrated 50 years of independence that the “last few years of Papa’s life without Mama were a sad and hard time”.
Lee was educated at Cambridge University, took office in 1959 after the end of British rule and managed Singapore’s split from Malaysia in 1965.
Lee, who was prime minister for more than three decades, had no tolerance for political dissent. The country’s laws prohibit bankrupt people from contesting elections. “Mr. Lee retired as Prime Minister in 1990”.
Reporters Without Borders’ 2015 World Press Freedom Index ranked Singapore 153rd of 180 countries, below Gambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The federal government’s current strikes to take a teenage blogger to courtroom and require in style information websites to acquire licenses have been met with outrage from the web group. But there were no street protests – demonstrations in Singapore can be held only in a designated area, the 2.4-acre Hong Lim Park. All different gatherings require a police allow.
When the population boomed to over 2 million in the 1970s from 1.89 million at independence, Lee vigorously campaigned for women to stop at two children, fearing it would impede economic growth.
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“The social cohesion is one of the most precious asset that needs to be nurtured… but it’s also something that has become part of the Singapore system”, he said.
