KUALA LUMPUR, March 3 — Former MCA president Tan Sri Lee San Choon has passed away at the age of 87. According to a report by Sin Chew Daily, Lee passed away at 10.30am this...
KUALA LUMPUR, March 3 — Former MCA president Tan Sri Lee San Choon has passed away at the age of 87.His cause of death was not specified in the report.
Prior to the 1982 general election, he accepted former DAP’s secretary-general Lim Kit Siang's challenge to contest in a Chinese-majority constituency and won against the former DAP’s chairman Chen Man Hin in his Seremban stronghold.Lee was born in Pekan, Pahang in 1935 to immigrant parents from China.
The former businessman held various ministerial posts in the Cabinet from 1969 to 1983, including labour and manpower minister, works and public utilities minister, and transport minister.
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