<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p>SINGAPORE (Feb 4): Wee Cho Yaw, longtime UOB chairman who died on Saturday (Feb 3) at age 95, was a "titan" of the industry and "simply unique", according to Singapore’s top leadership.</p></div>

<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p>"His business acumen and visionary leadership were instrumental in growing UOB into one of the most successful banks in Singapore and the region," said Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, who has known Wee personally for four decades.</p></div>

<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p>Most notably, as then chairman of the Monetary Authority of Singapore more than two decades ago, Lee pushed through<a href="https://www.theedgesingapore.com/news/obituary/singapores-top-leadership-calls-wee-cho-yaw-simply-unique-and-titan" target="_blank"><em>...(click on link for full story on theedgesingapore.com)</em></a></p></div><div class=inPageAd id=div-gpt-ad-inpage></div>

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SINGAPORE (Feb 4): Wee Cho Yaw, longtime UOB chairman who died on Saturday (Feb 3) at age 95, was a "titan" of the industry and "simply unique", according to Singapore’s top leadership.

Singapore’s top leadership calls Wee Cho Yaw ‘simply unique’ and a ‘titan’

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<p>Russia attacked Ukraine's energy system and some cities with cruise and ballistic missiles plus drones on Wednesday in an "inhuman" Christmas Day assault, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said.</p>


<p>Fourteen members of the Syrian police were killed in an "ambush" by forces loyal to the ousted government in the Tartous countryside, the transitional administration said early on Thursday, as demonstrations and an overnight curfew elsewhere marked the most widespread unrest since Bashar al-Assad's removal more than two weeks ago.</p>


<p>Azerbaijan Airlines suspended flights to two cities in southern Russia after a passenger plane heading in that direction was diverted across the Caspian Sea and crashed near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan, killing dozens.</p>
