'It has been a tremendous honour': Outgoing PAP chief Lee Hsien Loong at party's awards dinner
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SINGAPORE — About 3,000 PAP cadres, activists and guests — including several who featured in a video sharing personal stories and interactions with him — paid tribute to Senior Minister Lee Hsien Loong on Nov 23. People's Action Party chairman Heng'It has been a tremendous honour': Outgoing PAP chief Lee Hsien Loong at party's awards dinner
SINGAPORE — About 3,000 PAP cadres, activists and guests — including several who featured in a video sharing personal stories and interactions with him — paid tribute to Senior Minister Lee Hsien Loong on Nov 23. People's Action Party chairman Heng Swee Keat lauded the outgoing party chief for his contributions in a speech on the first day of the biennial PAP Awards and Conference. SM Lee has been secretary-general of the PAP since 2004, and has served the party and its Teck Ghee branch since 1984. Heng, who is Deputy Prime Minister, noted that the party had successfully completed the third handover of the premiership since Singapore's independence, with Prime Minister Lawrence Wong taking office in May. PM Wong is currently the PAP's deputy secretary-general. «Thank you, secretary-general, for four decades of guidance, wisdom and foresight,» he said. As prime minister, SM Lee led the country through the global financial crisis of the late 2000s, and through the more recent Covid-19 pandemic. Read more
