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Deeply human portrait of Singapore’s second president Benjamin Sheares
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Professor Benjamin Sheares of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Malaya, Singapore.
PHOTO: LOW YEW KONG, ISEAS PUBLISHING
By K.C. Vijayan
Politics/ISEAS Publishing/Paperback/179 pages/$39.13 (with GST)
When Singapore fell to the Japanese on Feb 15, 1942, British colonial officials – including doctors – were rounded up and put in prison.
