Singapore icon firm believer in equality, says DAP man


SEREMBAN: DAP founding member Dr Chen Man Hin vividly remembers the time when Singapore's first prime minister Lee Kuan Yew stayed at his house here.

It was in 1964 and Lee was on his rounds in Peninsular Malaysia to set up branches of the People’s Action Party (PAP) after Singapore joined the federation with Sabah and Sarawak to form Malaysia.

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