Lee's effects offered for charity<\/p>\n
SINGAPORE: Personal items belonging to modern Singapore's
\nfounding father, Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew, will go under the
\nhammer in an auction for charity, a report said on Monday.<\/p>\n
The Lee family has donated several possessions including a
\njade seal inscribed with his name and a fur hat worn by the
\nformer prime minister, who shepherded the tiny, resource-starved
\nisland into a wealthy city-state in just about three decades.<\/p>\n
Talks are being held with international auction houses
\nSotheby's and Christie's to organize the auction here possibly
\nwithin the first half of 2003, the Straits Times reported.<\/p>\n
Also among the items to be put under the hammer are gifts Lee
\nreceived as prime minister. The items, considered state gifts,
\nhad been bought by the family from the government.<\/p>\n
Lee's daughter Wei Ling, deputy director of clinical services
\nat the National Neuroscience Institute, recently helped raise
\nmoney to benefit troubled teenage girls and initiated the charity
\nauction move. --AFP<\/p>",
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