Yahoo! News Singapore, 6 Jun 2012Social reformer and clergyman Henry Ward Beecher once said, "He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.”
By this measure, Dr Lim Hock Siew could have been Singapore’s richest man.
In reality though, he was Singapore’s second-longest serving political prisoner, having been detained under the Internal Security Act (ISA) for more than 19 years, from 1963 to 1982. Full story
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