Lee Kuan Yew, the first prime minister of Singapore, who served from the country's date of independence in 1965 to 1990, died today at the age of 91 in Singapore General Hospital. Widely credited with bringing Singapore "from a third world country to a first world country" in the span of just a generation, Lee was admired by many despite his authoritarian style of rule. Read more about citizens' reactions from Singapore, a country where 74% of the citizens are ethnically Chinese and Mandarin is one of four official languages, in this piece in the New York Times.