Fong Swee Suan, the Glossary
Fong Swee Suan (方水双 Fāng Shuǐshuāng; 27 October 1931 – 4 February 2017) was a trade unionist, founding member of the People's Action Party (PAP) and a Barisan Sosialis leader.[1]
Table of Contents
18 relations: Barisan Sosialis, Batu Pahat (town), Chinese middle school student riots, Cirrhosis, Hock Lee bus riots, Lee Hsien Loong, Lee Kuan Yew, Lim Chin Siong, NewspaperSG, Operation Coldstore, Otto Fong, People's Action Party, Prime Minister of Singapore, Saint John's Island, Senggarang, Johor, The Chinese High School (Singapore), The Straits Times, 1959 Singaporean general election.
- Barisan Sosialis politicians
- Prisoners and detainees of Singapore
- Singaporean communists
- Singaporean prisoners and detainees
- Singaporean trade unionists
Barisan Sosialis
Barisan Sosialis (Socialist Front) was a political party in Singapore.
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Batu Pahat (town)
Batu Pahat (BP) is a town and capital of Batu Pahat District, Johor, Malaysia.
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Chinese middle school student riots
The Chinese middle school student riots were a series of riots in Singapore that broke out between the Chinese community in 1956, resulting in 13 people killed and more than 120 injured.
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Cirrhosis
Cirrhosis, also known as liver cirrhosis or hepatic cirrhosis, and end-stage liver disease, is a condition of the liver in which the normal functioning tissue, or parenchyma, is replaced with scar tissue (fibrosis) and regenerative nodules as a result of chronic liver disease.
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Hock Lee bus riots
The Hock Lee bus riots took place on 12 May 1955 in Singapore.
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Lee Hsien Loong
Lee Hsien Loong (born 10 February 1952) is a Singaporean politician and former brigadier-general who has been a Senior Minister of Singapore since 2024, having previously served as the third Prime Minister of Singapore from 2004 to 2024. Fong Swee Suan and Lee Hsien Loong are People's Action Party politicians and Singaporean people of Hokkien descent.
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Lee Kuan Yew
Lee Kuan Yew (born Harry Lee Kuan Yew; 16 September 1923 – 23 March 2015), often referred to by his initials LKY, was a Singaporean statesman and lawyer who served as the first Prime Minister of Singapore from 1959 to 1990, and Secretary-General of the People's Action Party from 1954 to 1992. Fong Swee Suan and Lee Kuan Yew are People's Action Party politicians.
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Lim Chin Siong
Lim Chin Siong (28 February 1933 – 5 February 1996) was a Singaporean politician and union leader active in Singapore in the 1950s and 1960s. Fong Swee Suan and Lim Chin Siong are Barisan Sosialis politicians, People's Action Party politicians, Prisoners and detainees of Singapore, Singaporean communists, Singaporean people of Hokkien descent, Singaporean prisoners and detainees and Singaporean trade unionists.
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NewspaperSG
NewspaperSG is an online newspaper archive launched in 2010 containing newspapers distributed in Singapore, including those published in the 19th century.
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Operation Coldstore
Operation Coldstore was the code name for a covert anti-communist security operation that took place in Singapore on 2 February 1963, which was then an internally self-governing state within the British Empire.
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Otto Fong
Otto Fong Yong Chin (born 1968) is a Singaporean comic artist, playwright and teacher.
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People's Action Party
The People's Action Party (PAP) is a major conservative political party of the centre-right in Singapore.
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Prime Minister of Singapore
The prime minister of Singapore is the head of government of Singapore.
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Saint John's Island
Saint John's Island also known as St John's is an island in the Straits of Singapore located 6.5 km off the southern coast of Singapore.
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Senggarang, Johor
Senggarang is a town in Batu Pahat District, Johor, Malaysia.
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The Chinese High School (Singapore)
The Chinese High School was an independent school in Singapore offering secondary education.
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The Straits Times
The Straits Times (also known informally by its abbreviation ST) is a Singaporean daily English-language newspaper owned by the SPH Media Trust.
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1959 Singaporean general election
General elections were held in Singapore on 30 May 1959.
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See also
Barisan Sosialis politicians
- Chia Thye Poh
- Fong Swee Suan
- Lee Siew Choh
- Lim Chin Siong
- Lim Hock Siew
- Loh Miaw Gong
- Sandrasegaran Woodhull
- T. T. Rajah
Prisoners and detainees of Singapore
- 1972 Pulau Ubin murder
- Alan Shadrake
- Chia Teck Leng
- Choo Wee Khiang
- Fong Swee Suan
- Jek Yeun Thong
- Leslie Khoo Kwee Hock
- Life imprisonment in Singapore
- Lim Chin Siong
- Loh Miaw Gong
- Mathavakannan Kalimuthu
- Nick Leeson
- Peter Tham
- Phey Yew Kok
- Poh Soo Kai
- Roszaidi Osman
- Shariff Abdul Samat
- Sim Ah Cheoh
- Sujay Solomon Sutherson
- Tan Ping Koon
- Tang Fong Har
- The President's Pleasure (Singapore)
- Yap Weng Wah
- Yellow Ribbon Project
Singaporean communists
- Fong Swee Suan
- Lim Chin Siong
- P. Veerasenan
Singaporean prisoners and detainees
- Amos Yee
- Chee Soon Juan
- Chew Kheng Chuan
- Chia Thye Poh
- Elizabeth Choy
- Fong Swee Suan
- Francis Seow
- Jek Yeun Thong
- Lim Chin Siong
- Lim Hock Siew
- Loh Miaw Gong
- Mas Selamat Kastari
- Mathavakannan Kalimuthu
- Peter Tham
- Poh Soo Kai
- Said Zahari
- Sandrasegaran Woodhull
- Shariff Abdul Samat
- Sim Ah Cheoh
- Sujay Solomon Sutherson
- T. T. Rajah
- Tang Fong Har
- Vincent Cheng Kim Chuan
- Yellow Ribbon Project
Singaporean trade unionists
- Abbas Abu Amin
- Alex Yam
- Chan Chun Sing
- Desmond Choo
- Devan Nair
- Fong Swee Suan
- Gopinath Pillai
- Heng Chee How
- Josephine Teo
- K. Thanaletchimi
- Lim Boon Heng
- Lim Chin Siong
- Lim Swee Say
- Loh Miaw Gong
- Melvin Yong
- Muhammad Ali Aman
- Ng Pock Too
- Ng Ser Miang
- Ong Teng Cheong
- Ong Ye Kung
- P. Veerasenan
- Sat Pal Khattar
- Thomas Thomas (politician)
- Yeo Guat Kwang
- Yu-Foo Yee Shoon