Dr ang swee chai biography of william

In mid-March, about a hundred Harvard alumni and friends gathered at the Singapore Island Country Club (SICC). Smack in the middle of our city-state, SICC abuts some of Singapore’s only remaining virgin forest, offering exclusive views of the MacRitchie and Lower Pierce reservoirs, a time-travelling vista onto the tropical island that once was.

Aside from Singapore’s most expansive golf courses, its 7,800 members and their families also have access to an Olympic-sized pool, seven tennis and four squash courts, a 130-seat theatre, a 12-lane bowling alley, and numerous other facilities befitting a club whose membership now costs some S$400,000. Harvard x SICC is a confluence of privilege and old-money grandeur.

Yet taking centre stage that night was not the archetypical politician or tycoon blessed by the establishment, but a medical activist whom Singapore had effectively forced into exile in the 1970s.

Dr Ang Swee Chai, who’d moved to the UK and then gone on to co-found Medical Aid From Beirut to Jerusalem: A Woman Surgeon with the ... PAF