Posts Tagged ‘men in white’
Here’s something you don’t see everyday: a Singaporean bureaucrat almost, but not quite, threatening to sue Lee Kuan Yew for defamation. Temasek Review: The former director of Singapore’s Internal Security Department (1971 – 1974) Mr Yoong Siew Wah had written on his personal blog expressing outrage at factual inaccuracies in the SPH propagandist book about […]
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Tags: francis seow, internal security department, lee kuan yew, men in white, yoong siew wah
Friends and foes meet
Lee Kuan Yew at the Men in White book launch. Straits Times: IT WAS a historic moment with friends and foes gathered together under the same roof where they last met more than four decades ago – at the Old Parliament House. The occasion was the launch of a new book on the People’s Action […]
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Tags: lee kuan yew, men in white, operation coldstore, people's action party
Send in the clowns
Alex Au offers a biting critique of Men in White, the PAP and Lee Kuan Yew himself. Yawning Bread: What has been revealed is that Lee was convinced that the leftwing of the PAP had pro-communist sympathies, and that they could potentially carry the electorate. Lee didn’t feel he was strong enough to stop the […]
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Tags: lee kuan yew, men in white, operation coldstore, pap, rogue government
Lee Kuan Yew Watch 
Followup: Yoong Siew Wah vs SPH, Lee Kuan Yew
After Temasek Review’s hard-hitting reporting, the Yoong Siew Wah/Men in White flap makes finally it into the mainstream media, but with all mention of Lee Kuan Yew and Yoong’s demand for an apology omitted. Straits Times Channel News Asia See also this interview with Yoong, again courtesy of Temasek Review: Interview with Mr Yoong Siew […]
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Tags: francis seow, internal security department, Interview, isd, men in white, sph, temasek review, yoong siew wah