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“poh soo kai”

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  • The 1963 Operation Coldstore in Singapore

    Commemorating 50 Years

    by Poh Soo Kai, Tan Kok Fang, Hong Lysa ...
    Operation Coldstore remains the most contentious event in the history of postcolonial Singapore. Despite attempts by the state to silence ex-detainees, by warning that they would not be permitted to rewrite the state’s official version of history, the authors in this volume have done just that.They have placed on record their own perspective of events. The autobiographical element in the ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD

  • Living in a Time of Deception

    by Poh Soo Kai, Hong Lysa, Wong Souk Yee ...
    This is the historical memoir of Dr Poh Soo Kai, a medical doctor and a founder member of the People's Action Party. Here he tells the story of his incarceration as a political prisoner under Singapore's notorious Internal Security Act, and the anti-colonial struggle which defined the years after the Second World War.Poh was born in Singapore in 1930. He is the maternal grandson of prominent ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD

  • Comet in Our Sky

    Lim Chin Siong in History

    by Poh Soo Kai ...
    Singapore's political firmament is crowded with stars who could have lit up to the island state's history, but were snuffed out by detention and harassment before they could do so. One of the brightest was probably Lim Chin Siong, who with Lee Kuan Yew, was one of the founders of the People's Action Party, but he spent more time in detention than representing his constituents. Lim Chin Siong was ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD

  • The Fajar Generation

    The University Socialist Club and the Politics of Postwar Malaya and Singapore

    by Poh Soo Kai, Tan Jing Quee, Koh Kay Yew ...
    The University Socialist Club (USC) was formed in February 1953. In the 1950s and 1960s the USC and its organ Fajar were a leading voice advocating the cause of the constitutional struggle for freedom and independence in peninsular Malaya and Singapore. In May 1954, the British colonial government arrested the entire editorial board of Fajar and charged them with sedition. In the subsequent high ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD

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  • Tommy Koh Reader, The: Favourite Essays And Lectures

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