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"Crazy Rich Asians meets War of the Windsors” - the Sunday Story

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Politics, Unknown, Daily News, News

41.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

The city-state of Singapore has been scandalised by a bitter row tearing apart its first family. The two sons of the country’s founder, Lee Kwan Yew, are fighting over the future of a small 19th-century bungalow - their childhood home. The is battle being fought in the law courts, debated in parliament and picked apart in the media - and one brother has fled to London seeking political asylum. With Singapore itself delicately balanced between the US and China, what happens next could affect us all.


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Guest: Josh Glancy

Host: Manveen Rana

Producer: Shabnam Grewal


Clips: @pmosingapore, channelnewsasia.com


Photo: Getty 

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0:00.0

I'm Will Kelleher. Join me and Alex Lowe for the Red Lions, a special three-part series on the history of the British and Irish Lions from 1950 to this year's tour of Australia.

0:13.0

With first-hand accounts from the players themselves, it tracks the ranker and revival of rugby's greatest touring team. The Red Lions, memories, music, match reports and more.

0:24.8

Available wherever you download the Ruck Rugby podcast from The Times.

0:32.7

From The Times and the Sunday Times, this is the story on Sunday.

0:39.7

I'm Manvine Rana.

0:46.8

Let me take you back to the 9th of June 2022.

0:51.9

It's the crack of dawn and the shimmering metropolis of Singapore is still mostly asleep.

0:59.8

But in one smart corner of town, that's all about to change.

1:05.8

Lisa Nyang and his wife, Lisa at Fern, are in their apartment in Singapore.

1:11.4

They are a very wealthy, powerful, esteemed couple.

1:16.0

It was very early in the morning.

1:17.8

He was still sleeping.

1:19.6

I was in my pyjamas.

1:21.9

And they knocked on the door and there was quite a lot of them.

1:25.2

Fern described it as a proverbial knock on the door

1:27.4

because it is a knock on the door from two of the most senior police officers in Singapore.

1:32.4

One is head of special investigations, the other head of organised crime.

1:36.6

He basically looks after the mafia.

1:39.0

And they were the ones who came knocking on our door.

1:41.4

I mean, if you don't think that sinister, we did.

1:43.9

And this is an extraordinary moment.

1:45.7

Lysen Yang is the son of the founder of Singapore, Li Kuan Yu.

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