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The Last Great Strike: The Untold Story of the Strike That Closed The Straits Times
Clement Mesenas
Singapore: Marshall Cavendish, 2012
ISBN: 9789814398312

Veteran journalist Clement Mesenas looks back on eight eventful days in 1971 when a group of young reporters staged a historic strike that shut down The Straits Times, a company that had the proud tradition of never being off the streets in its 120 years of existence, not even during the Japanese occupation of Singapore.

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