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On 25 October 1956, Lim Chin Siong gave a speech at Beauty World in Hokkien to an angry audience, urging them to calm down and that their enemy was not the police, but Lim Yew Hock and the colonial masters.
Feb 5, 1996 · Lim Chin Siong (b. 28 February 1933, Singapore–d. 5 February 1996, Singapore 1) was an influential trade union leader and a prominent left-wing political figure in Singapore.
Apr 21, 2019 · It's regrettable that Lim Chin Joo has to be introduced by way of his late elder brother Lim Chin Siong. The latter, who is seen by some as the man who could have been Singapore's Lee Kuan...
Jun 13, 2014 · An on-going debate on the role and status of Lim Chin Siong, one of the People’s Action Party’s founding leaders, in the struggle for independenc can be seen as part of a wider attempt to unravel...
Sep 25, 2017 · Lim Chin Siong was the undisputed political leader of the anticolonial and Malayan left-wing in Singapore until his detention without trial in 1963 ended his political career.
Jan 19, 2018 · There is new evidence that the People’s Action Party co-founder Lim Chin Siong was wrongfully detained as a transcript of his speech at a protest rally has turned up in the UK’s National Archives.
Few historical figures in Singapore’s post-war history excite as much controversy as does Lim Chin Siong (1933-96). Emerging from a humble background, Lim quickly rose in the 1950s to become an exceptional trade union leader and organiser.
Sep 9, 2016 · But who is Lim Chin Siong? What did he believe? And why was he so feared that the British, Federation, and PAP leaders would disrupt their stable arrangements to defeat him? In this episode, PJ Thum explores Lim in his own words, and seeks the beliefs behind the man.
Comet in Our Sky is a combination of academic and personal reflections on Lim Chin Siong, a charismatic political figure in Singapore's post-war history. The collection also contains poems and speeches and a memoir by the late Usman Awang, the Malaysian Poet. Laureate.
Lim Chin Siong (b. 28 February 1933, Singapore–d. 5 February 1996, Singapore) was an influential trade union leader and a prominent left-wing political figure in Singapore. As a founding member of the People’s Action Party (PAP), Lim was elected as the assemblyman for the Bukit Timah constituency during the 1955...
