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On Feb 28, it was reported the Government has agreed to declassify and release documents in Dr Goh Keng Swee’s “Albatross File”, along with specific cabinet papers and Dr Goh’s notes of ...
A presentation pack with the complete set of stamps is priced at $7.70, while a collector's sheet is available at $4, comprising two $2 stamps that feature embossed portraits of Mr Lee and Dr Goh.
In this photo from 1962, Dr Goh Keng Swee (left) and Singapore's founding father Lee Kuan Yew are awaiting the results of the referendum polls at the Singapore Badminton Hall counting centre.
SINGAPORE: Former Singapore deputy prime minister Dr Goh Keng Swee died early Friday after a long illness, local media reported. He was 91.
To commemorate the 11th anniversary of former deputy prime minister Goh Keng Swee's death yesterday, the foundation set up in his name donated a total of $1.85 million to financially disadvantaged ...
Singaporeans were surprised to learn that it was Dr Goh Keng Swee - and not Lee Kuan Yew - who played the pivotal role in taking Singapore out of Malaysia, resulting in an independent country.
These are among the themes that will feature in Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat's upcoming Budget speech, which will be delivered in Parliament at 3.30pm next Monday (Feb 18). Mr Heng, in a ...
COMMENT Reading the encomiums to Dr Goh Keng Swee, the man his eulogists say was principally responsible for the templates that undergird modern Singapore, one is prompted to recall a discussion ...
SINGAPORE: The 2021 Budget Statement will be delivered by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance Heng Swee Keat in Parliament next Tuesday (Feb 16) at 3pm.The Budget Speech will be ...
In 1981, Singapore’s then deputy prime minister Dr Goh Keng Swee, so frugal he washed his own underwear while travelling, was unhappy with his allocated room at London’s Hyde Park Hotel.
On Feb 28, it was reported the Government has agreed to declassify and release documents in Dr Goh Keng Swee’s “Albatross File”, along with specific cabinet papers and Dr Goh’s notes of ...