Foreign Medals and Orders Awarded to Former Singapore Prime Minister's Mr Lee Kuan Yew

Mr Lee Kuan Yew Wearing His Companion of Honour, UK - Ref: Lee Kuan Yew, A Pictorial Biography

I have long wanted to write about Singapore Founding Father's Mr Lee Kuan Yew Orders and Medals. Mr Lee just celebrated his 91st birthday last month, so it is excellent occasion to highlight his foreign awards.

 Mr Lee has not been conferred any Singapore Order or Medal. His foreign awards can found in the book "Lee Kuan Yew, A Pictorial Biography" published by Lianhe Zhaobao in 1994.

Lee Kuan Yew, A Pictorial Biography", Lianhe Zhaobao, 1994

Mr Lee Kuan Yew Foreign Awards (Ref: Lee Kuan Yew, A Pictorial Biography)

Mr Lee has only been conferred 12 foreign Orders (excluding the Honorary Citizen of New Orleans and Man of Peace Award, and Including the Russia's Order of Honour awarded to him in Jan 2014).

1962 - Grand Cordon of the Order of the Nile, United Arab Republic (Eqypt) 

1963 - Cambodia's Grand Cross of the Royal Order

1967 - Japan's First Class Order of the Rising Sun

1970 - Britain's Companion of Honour

1972 - Britain's Order of St. Michael and St. George, G.C.M.G.

1973 - Indonesia's Bintang Repulblik Indonesia Adi Pradana

1974 - Philippines' Order of Sikatuna

1979 - South Korea's Grand Gwanghwa Order

1984 - Malaysia, Johore's The Most Honourable Order of the  Crown of Johore

1988 - Pakistan's Nishan-I-Quad-I-Azam (Ref: Lee Kuan Yew, A Pictorial Biography)

1990 - Brunei's The Most Esteemed Family Order, DK [The Darja Kerabat Laila Utama]

2014, January - Former PM Lee Kuan Yew given Russia's Order of Honour (The Straits Times) 

On 28 March 2015, I added:

Our Nation may consider instituting a new Order (The Order of Lee Kuan Yew) to honour the late Mr Lee Kuan Yew's contributions to our country. Alternately, we can rename one of our existing Orders (The Order of Temasek or The Order of Nila Utama) as The Order of Lee Kuan Yew in his honour.

Thank you, Mr Lee Kuan Yew. Singapore salutes you.

Indonesia President Yudhoyono Conferred The Singapore Order of Temasek (First Class)

In my previous post, I wrote "This Order have also been awarded to 10 foreign dignitaries. However, it appears that such practice have been discontinued more than 20 years ago."

Last week, The Order of Temasek (First Clas) was conferred to outgoing Indonesia President Yudhoyono by our President Tony Tan at the Istana. 

Thus proving my statement wrong.

Singapore Order of Temasek (First Class) Conferred to Indonesia President Yodhoyono

Citation for The Order of Temasek Conferred to President Yudhoyono

Recipients of The Order of Temasek

Interestingly, the first foreign dignitary to be conferred The Order of Temasek was Alegria President Ahmed Ben Bella in 1963.

"Ahmed Ben Bella,  (born December 25, 1916, Maghnia [Marnia], Algeria—died April 11, 2012, Algiers), principal leader of the Algerian War of Independence against France, the first prime minister (1962–63) and first elected president (1963–65) of the Algerian republic, who steered his country toward a socialist economy." (Ref: Encyclopaedia Britannica)

The other foreign dignitaries were:

(1964) Gamel Addul Nasser, second President of Egypt.

(1967) Eisaku Sato, Prime Minister of Japan between 1964 and 1972, who presided over Japan’s post-World War II reemergence as a major world power.

(1967) Cambodia Prince Norodom Sihanouk.

(1973) Great Britain Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip

(1974) Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos

(1974) Indonesia President Suharto

(1990) Brunei Sultan Bolkiah

I guess Malaysia Prime Minister Najib will be the next foreign dignitary to be conferred The Order of Temasek.