$100 million endowment to honour Rajaratnam

23 Oct 2014

The Straits Times, 22 Oct 2014 - A $100 million endowment has been set up by Temasek Holdings to honour the late Mr S. Rajaratnam, a founding father of Singapore who played a pioneering role in the country's foreign policy. The S Rajaratnam Endowment will seek to deepen regional ties, a crucial backdrop to achieving economic cooperation and development in the region and will also partner civil society groups, think-tanks and the private sector to implement domestic and regional programmes. The endowment will also partner SP for the Youth Model Asean Conference to be held in December this year where 200 youth leaders from Asean countries will gather for four days to discuss matters including economic, security, social and cultural issues. Similar story was reported in Lianhe Zaobao, The Business Times and Channel News Asia.