A Personal Guide to Singapore History Part 4 (2015-2020)

This book describes to A Personal Guide to Singapore History Part 4
(2015 --2020)

Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island city-state in Southeast Asia.

Singapore is one of the only three surviving city-states in the world.

The other two are Monaco and Vatican City.

Singapore is made up of 63 islands, including the main island, which is known as Singapore Island to most people, but is also known as Pulau Ujong.

There are two man-made connections to Johor, Malaysia: the JohorSingapore Causeway in the north, and the Tuas Second Link in the west.

Jurong Island, Pulau Tekong, Pulau Ubin and Sentosa are the largest of Singapore's smaller islands.

I have written 3 books detailing my personal history of Singapore since 1959.

In this 4th book of Singapore History from 2015 to 2021, the most important event is the death of the most famous person in Singapore Mr Lee Kuan Yew, our first former Prime Minister of Singapore who brought Singapore into the First world from a third world nation, at the age of 91 on 5 February 2015.

Per capita GNP has risen from US$920 in 1965 to US$23,300 in 2000.

The literacy rate of total population has risen from 72% in 1970 to over 97%.

78.7% of the Singapore citizens are housed in cheap public housing flats making them house owners.

17% of the population, or one in every six people, has assets worth $1 million or more, which is the highest in the world.

Both the IMF and the World Bank have placed Singapore at the 3rd position in their GDP per capita list.

The death of Lee Kuan Yew led to an outpouring of grief from the majority of Singaporeans, young and old.

Many of the young people did not know how much that he has done for the country until they were shown television footage of what he has done for his country and how many leaders of the world respected him and asked for his advice.
A week-long period of national mourning was declared by the government, from 23 to 29 March that year.

All flags, including the National Flag, were flown at half-mast during the period.

There was TV coverage of all the work that he has done for Singapore.

About 447,000 people paid their last respects to Lee Kuan Yew at Singapore's Parliament House throughout the 24 hours from Wednesday 10.00 am until Saturday 8.00 pm, 28 March.

In addition, thousands of people lined the roads to watch Lee Kuan Yew move from the Istana to Parliament House on 25 March in the morning.

In total, more than 1.2 million paid their respects and tribute to Lee Kuan Yew at Parliament House and in the 18 tribute centers across the island.

More than 100,000 people lined the streets in heavy rain from Parliament House to the National University of Singapore University Cultural Center on Sunday, 29 March 2015 to see him off.

The other event that had a large effect on Singapore was the Covid-19 pandemic which occurred from 1 December 2019 to the present day.

As for my family my wife had an operation (knee replacement surgery) on her right knee in 2016.

After her recovery we were able to travel to Jerusalem and Alaska in 2017 1nd 2018

In 2019 my wife had an injection into her left eye to stop bleeding in her inner eye.

She recovered and was still able to go to Tokyo Disneyland with grandchildren before the Covid19 pandemic closed all borders and prevented travel.

TABLE OF CONTENT
Introduction My Country Singapore
Chapter 1 21st Century Singapore (2015-2020)
Chapter 2 Death of Lee Kuan Yew
Chapter 3 2016 Knee Operation
Chapter 4 2017 Trip to Jerusalem
Chapter 5 2018 Alaska
Chapter 6 2019 Eye problem
Chapter 7 COVID 19 (2020-2021)
Chapter 8 2020 Singapore
Chapter 9 The Future for Singapore
Epilogue

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