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4 July 2017
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TODAYVerified account @TODAYonline 3 minutes ago
#38OxleyRd ESM Goh has a message to the Lee Siblings
http://www.todayonline.com/singapore/parliament-38-oxley-road-debate-day-2
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TODAYVerified account @TODAYonline 3 minutes ago
#38OxleyRd It is now no more a cynical parlour game: ESM Goh
http://www.todayonline.com/singapore/parliament-38-oxley-road-debate-day-2
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3 July 2017
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TODAYVerified account @TODAYonline 59 minutes ago
#38OxleyRd PM Lee Hsien Loong is delivering his ministerial statement now. Live updates here: http://tdy.sg/38oxley
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Channel NewsAsiaVerified account @ChannelNewsAsia 6 minutes ago
HAPPENING NOW: PM Lee gives ministerial statement in #Parliament on alleged abuse of power on 38 Oxley Road http://cna.asia/Jul3liveblog pic.twitter.com/UqhRieB1yO
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12:32 “I’m not here to make a case against my siblings”
“I am not here to make a case against my siblings. Parliament is not the place for that. What is private, I will try to resolve privately, but what is public I have to explain and render account,” says PM Lee.
12:30 PM Lee delivers ministerial statement in Parliament
PM Lee Hsien Loong has started delivering his ministerial statement on alleged abuse of power on 38 Oxley Road.
“I therefore have no choice but to address them promptly,” said PM on addressing these allegations in Parliament.
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TODAYVerified account @TODAYonline
Oxley Road: Who’s who in the Lee Family dispute
http://www.todayonline.com/oxley
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5 things to look out for at Oxley Road debate
The house of late prime minister Lee Kuan Yew at 38 Oxley Road in Singapore. The Lee family feud over the house has spilled over to the public. – AFP pic, July 3, 2017.
SINGAPORE Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong is to address Parliament in a few hours in response to allegations of abuse of power hurled by his siblings – Lee Hsien Yang and Dr Lee Wei Ling.
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1. Scope of the ministerial committee set up to study options for the house.
Shortly after Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean announced the composition and responsibilities of the ministerial committee studying options for Kuan Yew’s house, Hsien Yang said the committee is fundamentally flawed.
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2. Abuse of power related to handling of Kuan Yew’s items.
The Lee siblings have accused Hsien Loong and his wife, Ho Ching, of removing several items found at the Oxley Road house and loaned them to the National Heritage Board (NHB).
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3. Conflict of interest.
Hsien Yang has hit out at the secret nature of the ministerial committee on the Oxley Road house, saying there is conflict of interest as its members are subordinates of Hsien Loong.
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4. Feud’s public fallout and Singapore’s reputation.
Singaporeans have expressed concern over the public nature of the Lee feud, saying that it has tarnished Kuan Yew’s legacy and memory.
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5. The whip was lifted today but will MPs ask the tough questions?
MPs must prove they can “ask good questions in the interest of Singaporeans, since they no longer have to speak along party lines”, Dr Norshahril Saat, a research fellow at the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, was quoted as saying. – July 3, 2017.
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TODAYVerified account @TODAYonline 23 hours ago
The Big Read: Increasingly anxious, Singaporeans look to Parliament to provide answers on damaging Oxley Road saga
SINGAPORE — The suggestions that ties between the Lee siblings were less than cordial have been present for some time now. They first emerged in April last year, when Dr Lee Wei Ling clashed with her elder brother, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, over how their father’s one-year death anniversary should be commemorated.
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Amid all the sound and fury, political analysts and Members of Parliament (MPs) whom TODAY spoke to singled out a few key issues that have arisen from the dispute which hold implications for Singaporeans and the country. They also weighed in on what the public should look out for in Monday’s Parliamentary sitting, and what comes next.
ISSUE #1: FATE OF THE HOUSE
This issue, while it has captured the imagination of many Singaporeans, is one that sits on the surface.
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ISSUE #2: HOW THE MINISTERIAL COMMITTEE SHOULD DO ITS WORK
Another tinderbox in the public spat is the ministerial committee — which Dr Lee and Mr Lee Hsien Yang have called a “secret committee” — set up to study possible options for the future of the Lee family home. This is at the centre of the abuse of power allegations.
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ISSUE #3: ‘DYNASTIC AMBITIONS’?
Of all the charges laid at the door of PM Lee and his wife, Madam Ho Ching, the one that preserving the storied bungalow is a ploy by them to benefit a possible future political career of their son, Mr Li Hongyi, is the one that is deemed by many to be coming out of left field. Mr Lee and Madam Ho have rubbished the accusation as absurd, and Mr Li himself has said that he has no interest in politics.
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http://www.todayonline.com/singapore/increasingly-anxious-sporeans-look-parliament-provide-answers-damaging-oxley-road-saga
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