{"id":1555,"date":"2025-08-26T15:45:54","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T07:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/nutgraf.com.sg\/?post_type=product&p=1555"},"modified":"2025-12-02T10:19:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T02:19:21","slug":"lee-ek-tieng-the-green-general-of-lee-kuan-yew","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/nutgraf.com.sg\/product\/lee-ek-tieng-the-green-general-of-lee-kuan-yew\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee Ek Tieng: The Green General of Lee Kuan Yew"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Samantha Boh<\/strong> is a journalist who has written extensively on sustainability and science, covering topics that range from climate change to biomedical breakthroughs. Her works have appeared across multiple publications, including\u00a0The Straits Times<\/i>,\u00a0South China Morning Post<\/i>, and\u00a0MyPaper<\/i>. She was involved in the publication of the Ministry of Sustainability and the Environment\u2019s inaugural\u00a0Zero Waste Masterplan<\/i>\u00a0in 2019. She is a co-author of two No. 1 bestselling titles:\u00a0The Last Fools<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0The Price of Being Fair<\/i>. She is a communications graduate from the Nanyang Technological University.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Pearl<\/strong> is a journalist whose work on education, politics, and social issues has appeared in multiple publications, including\u00a0The Straits Times<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0South China Morning Post<\/i>, for more than a decade. She is the author of\u00a0Ready, Set, Fiyah<\/i>, a children\u2019s picture book on the Youth Olympic Games. She is also a co-author of\u00a0Boardroom Knockout<\/i>,\u00a0Behind the Mask<\/i>, and\u00a0One Havelock Square<\/i>, which won the Best Hybrid Book prize at the Singapore Book Awards in 2021. She is a communications graduate from the Nanyang Technological University.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Matthew<\/strong> is a journalist who has covered finance, education, and environment news. He is a co-author of\u00a0Boardroom Knockout: How Singapore\u2019s Investor Watchdog Fights for Minority Shareholders<\/i>. He is also part of the team behind an upcoming commemorative book on manpower policies. He holds a Masters in Management from UBI Business School and Middlesex University London.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ISBN:\u00a0978-981-94-1939-5 (Hardcover),\u00a0978-981-94-1938-8 (Paperback)
\nPage Count: 196
\nYear Published: 2025
\nWriters: Samantha Boh, Pearl Lee, Matthew Gan
\nPublisher: The Nutgraf Books
\nFormat: Hardcover, Softcover<\/p>\n

Earth. Water. Air. Word has it that there was once a man who controlled the three elements in Singapore. It was a time when rubbish filled the streets, floods raged after torrential downpours, and pollutants wafted in the air unchecked. He was tasked to make the lives of people cleaner, drier, and healthier.<\/p>\n

Only a foolhardy mortal would take on the job more suited for a deity, and more importantly, succeed. But he did. Over two decades this master of the elements would tame the hazards that so plagued Singapore\u2019s environment, transforming it from Third World to First, from squalid slum to garden city. His name is Lee Ek Tieng \u2013 one of the most prolific civil servants in newly-independent Singapore.<\/p>\n

Lee Kuan Yew once said: other cities have clean and green suburbs that offer respite, but not Singapore. Tiny as it is, it forces its people to work, play, and reside in the same small space. Poison the environment and there would be no escape. He had a vision, to create an oasis in the midst of chaotic developing Southeast Asia. But he needed an executor. In Lee Ek Tieng, Singapore\u2019s founding Prime Minister found the problem solver he sought, a tenacious and pragmatic engineer with foresight and a magnetic personality.<\/p>\n

But Lee Ek Tieng was an elusive character who preferred to work, not talk. So few in Singapore today would recall his name, even as many live to enjoy his achievements. For the first time,\u00a0Lee Ek Tieng: The Green General of Lee Kuan Yew\u00a0<\/i>tells the story of his inspiring life through the eyes of those who witnessed his prowess.<\/p>\n

In the hands of three experienced journalists and authors, this title reveals little-known details behind the decisions and actions that resulted in the dramatic metamorphosis of Singapore\u2019s environment, and the person who drove them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1558,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[15],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1555","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-general","8":"first","9":"instock","10":"taxable","11":"shipping-taxable","12":"purchasable","13":"product-type-variable"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/nutgraf.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/1555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/nutgraf.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/nutgraf.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/nutgraf.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1555"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/nutgraf.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/1555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4777,"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/nutgraf.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/1555\/revisions\/4777"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/nutgraf.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/nutgraf.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/nutgraf.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=1555"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/nutgraf.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=1555"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/nutgraf.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=1555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}