TamilNet, 1 Oct 2008
JB Jeyaratnam passes away
JB Jeyaretnam, the veteran opposition politician in Singapore and the first opposition member to be elected as Member of Parliament in Singapore, passed away on Tuesday of a heart attack at the age of 82.
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The Post, 1 Oct 2008
Singapore Opp leader dies
SINGAPORE: Veteran Singapore political figure Joshua B. Jeyaretnam, the first opposition candidate to win a parliament seat since independence, died early Tuesday of heart failure at 82, a news report said.
Jeyaretnam, often referred to in Singapore as J.B.J, died at a local hospital, Channel NewsAsia reported, citing his son.
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Thestar online, 1 Oct 2008, MEERA VIJAYAN
Grand old man of Singaporean politics Jeyaretnam dies
JOHOR BARU: Former Singapore opposition leader J.B. Jeyaretnam died without fulfilling his greatest dream of returning to parliament.
Jeyaretnam, 82, had faced a gargantuan struggle in taking on the Singapore government in his twilight years and had been hopeful of returning to parliament, said relatives.
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The Hindu, 1 Oct 2008, P. S. Suryanarayana
Jeyaretnam is dead
SINGAPORE: J. B. Jeyaretnam, whose lonely name was for some time a byword for opposition in Singapore’s streamlined politics, passed away here on Tuesday, aged 82.
Leader of the Workers’ Party for 30 years until 2001, when he left it, Mr. Jeyaretnam floated the Reform Party about two months ago.
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International Herald Tribune, 30 Sep 2008, Seth Mydans
Outspoken Singapore dissident dies
OBITUARY - Joshua B. Jeyaretnam, the opposition politician whose outspokenness and persistence made him Singapore's leading dissident, died Tuesday of a heart attack, family members said.
At the age of 82, recently freed from bankruptcy, Jeyaretnam was preparing another run for Parliament, where he had broken the governing party's monopoly by winning the first opposition seat in 1981.
"We were trying to surmount the last hurdle," said a close friend and political partner, Ng Teck Siong, speaking of Jeyaretnam's attempt to enter Parliament once more. "But we were not able to do that. He had to leave us."
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Tamil Eelam News, 30 Sep 2008
Singapore opposition party leader Jeyaratnam Passes Away
Singapore - The veteran Singapore opposition party leader and the Secretary-General of the Workers' Party Joshua Benjamin Jeyaratnam better known as JBJ passed away in Singapore on September 30th 2008. He was ailing briefly with the heart problem. The end came at Singapore Hospital after the failure of his heart. He was 82 when he passed away.
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Financial Times, 30 Sep 2008, John Burton
Death of Singaporean maverick
The death on Tuesday of J.B. Jeyaretnam has left Singapore devoid of one of its most prominent forces in the opposition.
Joshua Benjamin Jeyaretnam, who died of heart failure at age 82, had been planning a political comeback after years of fighting defamation lawsuits by senior government officials that left him bankrupt and hawking books of his speeches at street corners to help pay damages.
His treatment by the government after he broke the monopoly of the long-ruling People’s Action party in parliament in 1981 has since been repeated on other opposition politicians.
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Colombopage, 30 Sep 2008
Sri Lankan born Singapore politician dies
Sept 30, Colombo: Sri Lanka born veteran Singapore politician JB Jeyaratnam has died of heart failure in a Singapore hospital, at age 82, media reports said.
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