Theatre director, writer, and actor Karen Minihan is launching her second book – and a new live performance – telling the stories of women from West Cork who played a heroic but oft-forgotten role in the War of Independence, writes MARTIN CLAFFEYIT was a chance conversation w
TELL good stories, tell great stories, we are told. Here’s one – a story on how former Director of Fisheries Sabah, Datuk Chin Phui Kong, 99, going on 100 on Dec 26 this year, and his late classmate Ho Su Shen, literally jumped from the sky into the jungle to fight for the liberation of Malaya in WW2!
Last Sunday, we reported how the entire Central Committee of the Malaysian Armed Forces Chinese Veterans Association (Macva) made a whirlwind trip to Kota Kinabalu on Oct 25 to accord Chin their exclusive ‘Honorary Member’ title reserved for only 10 deserving Malaysians, hailing him as “a legend and war hero” in his role as a secret agent in Force 136 of Malaya.