Singaporean sticks with M’sian partner till death


Happier times: See (right) chatting with Hoo at their home in Johor Baru before she passed away last month.

JOHOR BARU: Even up to her dying breath, a 74-year-old Singaporean woman staying here refused to return to the island-republic as it meant that she would have had to part with her partner of more than 40 years.

See May Hua, met and fell in love with Hoo Huan Pui, 78, in Singapore back then while both of them were working there.

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