FORMER PAP MP Mansor Haji Sukaimi, 65, is undergoing chemotherapy for leukaemia, a life-threatening cancer of the blood.

He has been warded at the Singapore General Hospital since Aug 16.

Mr Mansor was a two-term MP for Kampong Kembangan from 1976 to 1984.

He was an administrative officer in the civil service before joining politics, during which time he was also assigned to the National Trades Union Congress.

Since leaving politics, he has been an education consultant conducting lectures and workshops on early childhood development.

He is the co-founder of the Nury Institute of Family and Child Development in Malaysia, and travels frequently to Indonesia and Malaysia for his work.

It was on a trip last month to Kuala Lumpur that he was first diagnosed of leukaemia, according to Malay language newspaper Berita Harian.

He was warded for nine days at Gleneagles Hospital there, before moving to SGH here.

Current and former MPs who have visited him said he was in high spirits despite his illness.

Read the full story in Wednesday's edition of The Straits Times.