PM Lee: 10 years as Prime Minister

Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong after delivering his National Day Rally speech at ITE Central in Ang Mo Kio on Aug 17, 2014. -- PHOTO: ST FILE

Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong at Pei Chun Public School in Toa Payoh on Nomination Day, April 27, during the 2006 General Election. -- PHOTO: ST FILE

Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and wife Ho Ching reviewing the first taping of Mr Lee's 10-minute PAP broadcast message to voters during the 2006 General Election. -- PHOTO: ST FILE

Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong at a lo hei in Jurong East MRT station with staff from SMRT and the National Transport Workers' Union (NTWU). To his right are NTWU president Lau Lye Hock (in blue) and SMRT chairman Choo Chiau Beng. -- PHOTO: ST FILE

Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong joining members of the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCCI) in a group photo outside their building at Hill Street in 2007. On his left is Mr Kwek Leng Joo, Immediate Past President, SCCCI, followed by Mr Chua Thian Poh, President, SCCCI, (immediate right) and Mr Wee Cho Yaw, Honorary President, SCCCI. -- PHOTO: ST FILE

Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong waving to Teck Ghee residents as he arrives at Teck Ghee's Mini National Day Parade in Ang Mo Kio in a trishaw pulled by grassroot leader Au Chiow. -- PHOTO: ST FILE

(From left) Mr Teo Ser Luck, Mr Ng Ser Miang and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong at the Padang after it was announced in 2008 that Singapore had won the 2010 Youth Olympic Games. -- PHOTO: ST FILE

Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong taking in the stage set-up at the National University of Singapore's University Cultural Centre, ahead of the National Day Rally in 2008. -- PHOTO: ST FILE

Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong talking to commuters on his way to Ang Mo Kio MRT station on May 4, 2011. He was flanked by Ang Mo Kio GRC People's Action Party (PAP) teammates (from left) Ang Hin Kee, Intan Azura Mokhtar, Yeo Guat Kwang, Seng Han Thong and Inderjit Singh. -- PHOTO: ST FILE

Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong chatting with Facebook users via the People's Action Party's Facebook page in May 2011. -- PHOTO: ST FILE

Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong playing marbles at the official opening of Taman Warisan Melayu (Malay Heritage Centre) on Sept 1, 2012. -- PHOTO: BERITA HARIAN FILE

Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong during an interview at the Istana in September 2012 for current affairs website Singapolitics' Ask The PM initiative, in which the public submitted their questions for Mr Lee. -- PHOTO: ST FILE

A message written by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on a face mask, thanking health-care workers for their contributions. Mr Lee paid tribute to them at the Sars memorial event held at the University Cultural Centre on May 31, 2013. -- PHOTO: ST FILE

Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong (third from right) joining (from right) Senior Parliamentary Secretary for Education and Manpower Hawazi Daipi, An-Nur Mosque management board's second vice-chairman Mohammad Ayub Johari, An-Nur Mosque management board's executive chairman Abdul Rahim Mawasi, Minister-in-charge of Muslim Affairs Yaacob Ibrahim and Islamic Religious Council of Singapore (Muis) president Alami Musa to break fast in July 2013. -- PHOTO: ST FILE

Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong with CHIJ St Nicholas Girls' School student Stephanie Ho during his visit to the school's science laboratory on Nov 19, 2013. -- PHOTO: ST FILE

A barn owl that flew into Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's office in November 2013. He shared the picture on his Facebook page in a post that attracted more than 27,000 likes. -- PHOTO: LEE HSIEN LOONG/FACEBOOK

Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong after delivering his National Day Rally speech at ITE Central in Ang Mo Kio on Aug 17, 2014. -- PHOTO: ST FILE

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