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Brunei Diary

4 August 2018

9:00 AM

4 August 2018

9:00 AM

Six years before his death in 2015, Singapore’s founding father Lee Kuan Yew gave an insightful interview during which he attributed his country’s outstanding success to air conditioning.

Lee told New Perpectives magazine that the invention of air conditioning was, for Singaporeans, perhaps one of the signal inventions of history.

‘It changed the nature of civilisation by making development possible in the tropics,’ he said.

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