Singapore News - Mr Ong Wee Serm remembers the years toiling as a coolie, or manual labourer who moved goods to and from ships off the coast of Singapore. The 77-year-old, who was a coolie for a decade from 1963, unloaded items like rice, corn and beans from ships onto “twakows” or. Read more at www.tnp.sg
Mr Chai, a former Senior Minister of State for Education and the first MP for Bukit Batok, died in his sleep on Tuesday (May 3).
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SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): Chai Chong Yii, former Senior Minister of State for Education and the first MP for Bukit Batok, died in his sleep on Tuesday (May 3) at the age of 87.