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Last updated on April 14, 2025.
Sellapan Ramanathan, often known as S. R. Nathan, was a Singaporean politician, diplomat and civil servant who served as the sixth president of Singapore between 1999 and 2011. He is also the longest-serving president in Singapore's history.
I had the good fortune to be thrown unexpectedly into something called the Labour Research Unit - a little known organisation set up to assist the fledgling labour movement. It was not a company, nor a statutory board, nor a government department - in fact it did not exist at all as a legal entity. Thus in slightly unorthodox circumstances I became part of that struggle.