Portraying the real Yap Ah Loy


  • Letters
  • Sunday, 06 Jun 2004

Filmmakers interested in producing a TV series on Yap Ah Loy have been urged by one of his descendants to do adequate research so that the true story can be portrayed, writes K.W. MAK. 

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