(File picture: The late Mr Ee Boon Lee with his wife, Mina, at the Pioneer Generation Tribute event on 9 February 2014.)
Veteran Journalist and former NTUC News Editor Ee Boon Lee passed away on Sunday, 6 July 2014. He was 79.
NTUC conveys its condolences to his family and remembers Boon Lee’s many contributions over the years to the Labour Movement and beyond.
The late Boon Lee was Mr Lee Kuan Yew's press officer from the early years of Malaysia-Singapore separation.
He later rose to become the Senior Controller at the then Radio Television Singapore and moved on to be the News Editor at the Singapore Monitor.
After the Singapore Monitor ceased operations, Boon Lee moved to the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC).
He took on the role of Editor for NTUC News and Media Coordinator for then Secretaries-General late Ong Teng Cheong and Lim Boon Heng (presently Immediate Past Secretary-General).
In 1999, the late Boon Lee served as Media Coordinator to former President SR Nathan.
Mr Nathan launched his book “Winning Against The Odds – The Labour Research Unit in NTUC’s Founding”.
In his speech at the book launch in January 2011, Mr Nathan said: "To my old friend Ee Boon Lee, I owe a special debt for meticulously going through my drafts, checking to make my work factually as near perfect as possible with verification of facts, dates and data. His long association with the Labour Movement enabled him to recall events, which my memory had failed to recall.”
During his tenure in NTUC, the late Boon Lee also wrote several books. Among them were "Managing the Crises” and “Stretching the Dollar", published in 2001 with a recount of how Singapore had rose to fight Global economic crises and how NTUC used its cooperatives to counter profiteering respectively.
In 2011, the late Boon Lee together with another journalist Leong Ching, helped to produce the book "U and Me: Fifty Years of the Labour Movement in Singapore" to celebrate NTUC's 50th anniversary.
The Labour Movement cherishes the late Boon Lee’s contributions.
Source: NTUC This Week
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