A question of health. (Lee Hsien Loong, Singapore's next in line, has cancer)

From: The Economist (US) | Date: November 21, 1992 | Copyright information

Reports that Singapore's supposed next prime minister has cancer has worried the country's stock market. Lee Hsien Loong, the expected successor to Goh Chok Tong, is the son of founding father and long-time ruler Lee Kuan Yew.

STABLE government has long been one of Singapore's biggest selling points. So it was hardly surprising that its stockmarket got the jitters when it was announced that Lee Hsien Loong, widely assumed to be Singapore's prime minister in waiting, has cancer.

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