It was political exile Tan Wah Piow, and not historian Thum Ping Tjin, who invited Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad to address a conference about democracy in Southeast Asia, said activist ...

Political dissident Tan Wah Piow (left) met Malaysia Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad with four other Singaporeans and Malaysian political activist Hishammuddin Rais (right) on Thursday (Aug 30).

Tan Wah Piow, a former student leader who was jailed in the 1970s and had his Singapore citizenship revoked after he was accused of planning a Marxist coup, was accompanied by local activist ...

Tan Wah Piow, a retired London lawyer, has been in exile from Singapore since 1976. He was imprisoned as a student leader for his activism and is Singapore’s most well-known exile. He visited Panama ...

It was political exile Tan Wah Piow, and not historian Thum Ping Tjin, who invited Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad to address a conference about democracy in Southeast Asia, said activist ...