List of Southeast Asia (ASEAN) Leaders: PRIME MINISTER OF SINGAPORE

Full country name:	Republic of Singapore
Area:	710 sq km
Population:	5 million (Growth rate 1.4%)
People:	76.8% Chinese, 13.9% Malay, 7.9% Indian and 1.4% Eurasians and other ethnic groups
Language:	Mandarin, Malay, Tamil and English
Religion:	8.5% Taoist, 42.5% Buddhist, 14.9% Muslim, 9.8% Christian, 4% Hindu
Government:	Parliamentary democracy
President:	Dr. Tony Tan Keng Yam
Prime Minister:	Mr Lee Hsien Loong

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Background

Lee Hsien Loong, the eldest son of Singapore's former prime minister Lee Kuan Yew was born in Singapore on 10 February 1952.His grandmother, Chua Jim Neo, was a Hokkien Nyonya, and his mother has ancestry from Tong'an District, Xiamen, in the Fujian province of China. According to Lee Kuan Yew's biography, the young Lee had learned Jawi script from the age of five, and has always been interested in the affairs of Singapore, often following his father to the rally grounds since 1963.

Education:

He received his primary at Nanyang Primary School and secondary school education at the Catholic High School in Singapore, which required students to be proficient in both English and Mandarin. In addition to these two languages, he was proficient in Malay and had also studied Russian. He attended the National Junior College for his pre-university education and was awarded the president's scholarship in 1970 and the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) scholarship in 1971 for his academic prowess.

He proceeded to Cambridge University to study mathematics. In 1974 he graduated with first-class honors in mathematics and was also awarded a diploma in computer science with distinction from the same university. In 1978 he attended the U.S. Army Command and General Staff Course at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas. One year later he was a Mason fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, where he received a Master of Public Administration (MPA) degree in 1980.

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