An internet hoax posted by a former Singaporean claiming that the city-state's founding father and Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew had suffered a serious heart attack stirred outrage and protest in the online community. Gopalan Nair, a lawyer and former candidate of Singapore's opposition Workers' Party now living in the United States, said Saturday on his blog that Lee, 86, had been put in intensive care in a hospital.
"With the entire country run by this one man, the fear that business leaders and bankers had for a very long time may have finally come true; that such a happening can destroy the business confidence and cause total destruction in the small island city-state," Nair said.
Nair did not give any source for the information but quoted the "latest reports received from Singapore" while the city-state's mainstream media kept silent. More...
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