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Run-ins with Lee Kuan Yew cut short young activist’s career

Run-ins with Lee Kuan Yew cut short young activist’s career

  By Ivan Lim Former AJA President, Contributor to AsiaN  SINGAPORE: On Sept. 27, 1957, a bright 26-year-old activist, Arun Mahadeva, Maha for short, was invited to meet Lee Kuan Yew,34, a United Kingdom-trained lawyer and up-and-coming politician who was soon to become Singapore’s Prime Minister. At the meeting in Lee’s law office, the secretary […]

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