China’s ancestry tourism uses Lee Kuan Yew’s name as tourist bait

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Singapore’s first prime minister, a fourth-generation Straits Chinese and known as the country’s founding father, Lee Kuan Yew’s name is being used to boost tourism in the village of Tangqi which is also located in Meizhou.

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