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Example Lee Hsien Loong and Lee Hsien Yang.

His brother is Lee Hsien Yang, so his father probably calls him Loong to distinguish him from the brother.

His successor as Singapore's prime minister is his son Lee Hsien Loong, much as Kim Il Sung's successor was Kim Jong Il.

Tan won the very close election and joined the government of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, who also has a degree in mathematics.

And, indeed, if one were also discussing the times of Lee Hsien Loong, it would be perfectly reasonable to write of ‘Kuan Yew’s times’.

Singapore’s parliamentary political system has been dominated by the ruling People’s Action Party (PAP) and the family of current prime minister Lee Hsien Loong since 1959.

This is Lee Hsien Loong, the son of Lee Kuan Yew who built up Singapore (obviously a brilliant leader but also, with little oversight, worryingly quick to jail his critics).

Lee Hsien Loong studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was Senior Wrangler, and graduated with a first class honours in mathematics and a Diploma in Computer Science (with distinction).

- Odds are stacked against the opposition, that is true; but the odds are lowered now, Lee Hsien Loong is not his father and the media is not nearly as powerful now.

It is quite telling that the law was repealed in its entirety only in 2023, one year before the former Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong stepped down from his position.

I still laugh about the interview I saw with Lee Hsien Loong in which the obsequious (although perhaps rather clever) interviewer asked him whether he had been upset when Goh Chok Tong had immediately succeeded Lee Kwan Yew (Hsien Loong's father) as PM.

So while Singapore is currently a well managed country, we don't know who will success to Mr Lee Hsien Hong, and if that person does not turn out to be good, he will probably not encourage technological progress.

Cambridge professor about Lee Hsien Loong: "No, he was truly outstanding: he was head and shoulders above the rest of the students.

Homosexual rights are non-existant: Prime Minster Lee Hsien Loong has spoken dismissively of the challenges to article 377A: “Why is that law on the books?

His father also called him Loong (not Hsien Loong), at least sometimes: "He was still young and it was better that someone else succeed me as prime minister.

Tan won the very close election and joined the government of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, who also has a degree in mathematics." Indeed, it is hard to remember anymore that Singapore was a very, very poor country when it achieved independence (after being expelled from the Federation of Malaysia in 1965).

You're forgetting about Taiwanese directors (Edward Yang, Tsai Ming-liang, Hou Hsiao-Hsien) and mainland sixth generation directors (Jia Zhangke, Lou Ye).

I guess I could say he prepared me eventually for the likes of Tarkovsky, Bergman (easy to see parallels with Persona in his work, though there're echoes of that one all over), Hou Hsiao-Hsien, etc.