Toh Chin Chye

S. Rajaratnam: Recounting the life and work of one of Singapore’s core founding fathers

How S. Rajaratnam handled S’pore’s 1964 race riots in the face of ‘arsonists playing firemen’

Singapore’s then Culture Minister S. Rajaratnam and Deputy Prime Minister Toh Chin Chye visiting riot-stricken areas in their wards in an open-top vehicle on July 24, 1964, after the day’s curfew ended.

S. Rajaratnam on the 1965 Separation: ‘My dreams were shattered’

Mr S. Rajaratnam briefing the press during his first week as foreign minister of newly independent Singapore in 1965.

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