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In his younger days, former Singapore minister George Yeo came to the notice of the Internal Security Department (ISD), Singapore’s domestic intelligence agency, partly due to his association with the late Malaysian civil society activist Martin Khor, he disclosed in his Facebook post on April 1.
On Facebook, the 66-year-old Yeo described his time as an undergraduate at Cambridge University with Martin Khor: “Martin became like an elder brother to me in Cambridge. Through him I was introduced to Marx, Lenin, Mao and the Communist Manifesto. In my second and third year, after Martin had left, I became a student leader in the Cambridge University Malaysia Singapore Association. Martin was my first political mentor. Partly as a result of his influence, I came to the notice of Singapore’s Internal Security Department.”
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Advertisement Asia CNA spoke to Malaysia’s youngest MP while he is in Singapore attending post-graduate classes.
Member of parliament for Muar federal seat Syed Saddiq Abdul Rahman. (Photo: Gaya Chandramohan)
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SINGAPORE: Syed Saddiq Abdul Rahman is committed to keeping fit.
In between lectures and engagements with politicians as well as business leaders, the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Muar federal seat in Johor fits in daily runs along the Marina Bay promenade, a stone’s throw from the hotel he is staying at.
Dismantling the army might lead to a Libya or Iraq situation
Speaking at the event that was streamed online via Zoom on Wednesday, Mar. 10, the Senior Adviser to Singapore-based Kuok Group and Hong Kong-based Kerry Logistics Network, acknowledged that there is a lot of anger, fear and frustration among his friends from Myanmar.
However, he cautioned that the solution is not to say let s demob the army , despite the army being hated by many people.
He then raised the example of Libya and Iraq, where after Saddam Hussein s regime and military were dismantled, fragmented militia groups fought to fill the power vacuum left behind.
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