Devan Nair. SIR – In your obituary you wrote “by Mr Nair's account, Mr Lee promised to crush him [J.B. Jeyaretnam], crying ‘I will make him crawl on his bended knees and beg for mercy.' ...

After his second release in June 1959, Devan Nair persuaded the then government to set up a commission on prisons, said Janadas. One of the ideas for prison reform was the creation of a ...

Devan Nair (Term of office: Oct 23, 1981 - March 28, 1985) In 2014, a campus for an adult education and training centre opened in Jurong East and it was dedicated to Singapore's third president, ...

In 1970, the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC), under the leadership of C.V. Devan Nair, established NTUC Income as a cooperative under it.

Four presidents were appointed in that manner: Yusof Ishak (1965 to 1970), Benjamin Sheares (1971 to 1981), Devan Nair (1981 to 1985) and Wee Kim Wee (1985 to 1993). Following the constitutional ...