SINGAPORE: When Phey Yew Kok fled here to escape prosecution in 1979, he was aged 45, a second- term MP and one of the three most powerful union leaders in the country.
On Thursday, at age 81, the man infamous as the fugitive who stayed on the run from the Singapore authorities longer than anyone else looked almost nondescript as he stood in the dock listening to the charges he faced in 1979 being read out to him again.
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