KUALA LUMPUR: Shamsiah Fakeh, the veteran Communist leader who spent nearly 40 years in exile in China, died at 9am on Monday, after a lung infection. She was 84.
She passed away at her home in Jalan Kuchai Lama, according to her son Jamaluddin Ibrahim, 46.
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