By Xinghui Kok

SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Singapore’s government said on Monday it plans to gazette the site of the home of the city-state’s first prime minister as a national monument, following a bitter dispute between Lee Kuan Yew’s children over what to do with the building.

An advisory board had assessed the single-storey bungalow, built in 1898 in central Singapore, as worthy of preservation, the National Heritage Board and the Singapore Land Authority said in a statement, saying it “bore witness to pivotal events in the 1950s that marked Singapore’s transition from a colony to an independent nation.”

The advisory board “found the site to be of national significance, with great historic merit, and worthy of preservation”, the statement said, adding that it would be converted into a publ

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