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November 2024 FEATURE
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The volumes of Hwan Tong were published alternately by Kim Sek Chye Press and Lau Pat Press. Chan Kim Boon’s last major work was the Chinese classic Kou Chey Thian (The Monkey).
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“As the government of the Straits colonies has officially announced Sundays as public holidays, all will have the chance to enjoy themselves on their day off. The rich will satisfy themselves with good food and the theatre and then fall into slumber. Youngsters will indulge in gambling and vice until they forfeit all their money and contract venereal diseases. But what about the old and the weak? They have nothing to do. If they had books to read, they would...

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