Singapore's older generations speak/spoke Chinese "dialects" like Hakka (Lee Kuan Yew's heritage), but there has been a massive government-led push towards stan

Singapore's older generations speak/spoke Chinese "dialects" like Hakka (Lee Kuan Yew's heritage), but there has been a massive government-led push towards standardizing on Mandarin as the one true Chinese. Hence Lee Hsien Loong's children all have their names officially romanized in Mandarin pinyin (Li), not Hakka (Lee). The underlying character, 李, is still the same.