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    Community organizations pay tribute to Lee Kuan Yew

    2015-03-27 15:40 Xinhua Web Editor: Gu Liping
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    Eight organizations from the Chinese, Malay, Indian and Eurasian communities in Singapore jointly organized a memorial ceremony to pay tribute to Singapore' s founding father Lee Kuan Yew on Friday.

    Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and his wife Ho Ching and over 2,000 guests attended the memorial ceremony held at Kallang Theatre.

    Teo Chee Hean, deputy prime minister and coordinating minister for National Security and Home Affairs made a speech to pay tribute to late Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew.

    "The inter-racial, inter-religious harmony that we enjoy today is in large part because of Mr. Lee's insistence on a multi-racial, multi-religious, multi-lingual Singapore. It is a hard-fought gift that Mr. Lee and our founding fathers have left for us. But it remains a work-in-progress, which we must never take for granted," he said.

    The leaders of the four ethnic groups each made a speech and presented a Letter of Condolence to Prime Minister Lee at the end of the memorial ceremony.

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