Producers of Separation: Declassified reveal what it took to retell Singapore’s split with Malaysia

Producers of Separation: Declassified reveal what it took to retell Singapore’s split with Malaysia

For months, producers combed through “hundreds of letters” for little-known details about Singapore’s split with Malaysia in 1965. The team behind Separation: Declassified open up on how they created the series.

Lee Kuan Yew Feared Assassination By UMNO Hardliners As Singapore-Malaysia Tensions Reached Breaking Point In 1965

Subscribe to our FREE Newsletter, or Telegram and WhatsApp channels for the latest stories and updates. In the tense final weeks before Singapore’s dramatic separation from Malaysia in August 1965, its founding Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew lived in genuine fear that UMNO hardliners would orchestrate his assassination rather than simply have him arrested, according to revelations made in a new CNA documentary examining newly declassified British d…