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Share All sharing options for: Singapore’s founding father thought air conditioning was the secret to his country’s success Singapore's founding father, Lee Kuan Yew, died this weekend. He's being remembered as the man who transformed Singapore, since taking over in 1959 until leaving power in 1990, from an island with few natural resources into one of the wealthiest nations in the world by per-pe

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「Without air conditioning you can work only in the cool early-morning hours or at dusk. The first thing I did upon becoming prime minister was to install air conditioners in buildings where the civil service worked. This was key to public efficiency.」