• World leaders, including ex president Bill Clinton, gather for Lee Kuan Yew's funeral procession in
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[video=youtube;YtoZhx5iJg4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtoZhx5iJg4[/video] [IMG]http://www.channelnewsasia.com/blob/1748046/1427468214000/state-funeral-route-data.jpg[/IMG] [QUOTE]World leaders, current and former, were due to attend the state funeral on Sunday of Singapore’s first prime minister and founding father Lee Kuan Yew.The Indonesian president Joko Widodo, Indian prime minister Narendra Modi, and Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe will attend as will the Australian prime minister, Tony Abbott. Former leaders, including US president Bill Clinton and US secretary of state Henry Kissinger, will also be among mourners. More than 1.2 million Singaporeans have formally paid their respects to Lee: nearly half a million queued to file past his body lying in state at parliament house, while more than 800,000 attended community tribute sites around the island. A funeral procession, past significant landmarks such as Singapore’s Old Parliament House, Marina Barrage, and St Andrew’s Cathedral, will precede Lee’s funeral service at the National University of [URL="http://www.theguardian.com/world/singapore"]Singapore[/URL] Sunday afternoon. The country will observe one minute’s silence at 4pm.[/QUOTE] [url]http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/29/world-leaders-gather-for-lee-kuan-yews-funeral-in-singapore[/url]
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