The old Asian Way Excuse
Last September, an old man died of heart failure in a Singapore local hospital, aged 82.
While not many Thai people know him, he was Joshua Benjamin Jeyaretnam, known universally as JBJ. He was a Singaporean politician, former leader of the Workers' Party of Singapore and the first member of parliament who was not from the People's Action Party (PAP), th…
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