Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Albatross File: Inside Separation, edited by Susan Sim and published by Straits Times Press and National Archives of Singapore ...

Goh Keng Swee (1918-2010) served as the second Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore between 1973 and 1984, and is widely recognised as one of the founding fathers of Singapore. He was also a Member of ...

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When Singapore joined the Federation of Malaysia in 1963, hopes were high. But a secret file kept by then-Finance Minister Dr Goh Keng Swee, code-named the “Albatross”, reveals a far more fragile ...

The birth of a nation is always a partial fable – a powerful tale we tell ourselves to make sense of rupture. We search for heroes. We yearn for an inspiring origin story of conflict, struggle and ...

The Albatross file is a top-secret collection of papers compiled by Goh Keng Swee, one of the chief architects of modern Singapore and the right-hand man of the country’s founding prime minister, Lee ...

First-hand accounts from leaders including Lee Kuan Yew and Goh Keng Swee have cast the country's separation from Malaysia in 1965 in a new light.

SINGAPORE – Singapore’s separation from Malaysia in August 1965 was the result of a “bloodless coup” orchestrated by then Finance Minister Goh Keng Swee and then Malaysia’s Deputy Prime Minister, Tun ...