Lion CityLion City tells the extraordinary story of Singapore the world's most successful city state. In 1965, Singapore's GDP per capita was on a par with Jordan. Now it has outstripped Japan. After the Second World War and a sudden rupture with newly formed Malaysia, Singapore found itself independent and facing a crisis. It took the bloody minded determination and vision of Lee Kuan Yew, its founding premier, to take a small island of diverse ethnic groups