2,200 guests attend state funeral service for Mr Lee Kuan Yew

2,200 guests attend state funeral service for Mr Lee Kuan Yew

Foreign dignitaries and close friends of Mr Lee Kuan Yew gathered in Singapore on Sunday to attend the state funeral of the founding father of the city state.

In all, about 2200 guests packed the University Cultural Centre for the Funeral Service of the late Mr Lee Kuan Yew.

Here is a list of some of the foreign dignitaries and guests in attendance:

1. Malaysia King Abdul Halim Mu'adzam Shah

2. Brunei Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah

3. Indonesia President Joko Widodo

4. Myanmar President Thein Sein

5. Bhutan King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuk and Queen Jetsun Pema Wangchuk

6. Israel's President Reuven Rivlin

7. Chinese Vice-President Li Yuanchao

8. South Korea President Park Geun Hye

9. Qatar Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani

10. India Prime Minister Narendra Modi

11. Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe

12. Australia Prime Minister Tony Abbott

13. Thailand Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha

14. Cambodia Prime Minister Hun Sen

15. Vietnam Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung

16. Laos Prime Minister Thongsing Thammavong

17. Vietnam Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung

18. Kazakhstan Prime Minister Karim Massimov

19. Philippines President of the Senate Franklin Drilon

20. United Kingdom First Secretary of State William Hague

21. New Zealand's Governor-General Jerry Mateparae

22. Canada Governor General David Johnston

23. Russia First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov

24. US former president Bill Clinton

25. US former National Security Advisor Tom Donilon

Close friends

1. Hong Kong: Former chief executive Tung Chee Hwa

2. Taiwan: Mr Hau Pei-Tsun and his daughter; Mr Lien Chan; Mr Vincent Siew and his wife; Mr Su Tseng-Chang and his wife

3. Japan: Mr Hiromasa Yonekura and wife; Mr Yoshihide Fujii;

4. Netherlands: Ms Ankie Aeyelts Averink-Winsemius and Prof Pieter-Winsemius

5. United Kingdom: Lord Powell of Bayswater

6. United States: Dr Henry Kissinger; Mr Steven J Green

The total figure for the number of visitors to the Lying-in-State is 454,687 (with an average throughput of 6,500 visitors per hour). There are currently 131,450 condolence cards at Parliament House.

Separately, the total number of visitors to the 18 People's Association community sites as at 11am is 1.1 million.

1 Total number of people who visited the 18 community tribute sites: 1,000,000 (1 million)

2 Total number of people who turned up for the Lying in State at Parliament House: 442, 297* (as of 10pm)

3 Total number of foreign dignitaries who turned up for the lying in state at Parliament House: About 170 foreign dignitaries from about 27 countries/regions/international organisations

4 Total number of condolence cards issued at Parliament House: 125,450* (as of 10pm)

5 Total number of tents set up for lying in state: 362

6 Total number of barricades set up for lying in state: About 2,000

7 Total number of volunteers involved in entire operation: About 1,020

8 Total number of feedback via public hotline and email account for general enquiries relating to State Funeral: 21,580

9 Peak number of people watching online 'live' streaming at any one point in time:

- Peak concurrent viewers for Special Parliamentary Session - 8300

- Peak concurrent viewers for Lying in State - About 9000

10 Official Facebook reach: 3,988,941

11 Official Facebook page 'likes': 240,924

12 Total number of tributes submitted via official Facebook page, email and website: 40,252

13 Number of people who visited website everyday: Average of about 312,822 unique visitors per day

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