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Lim Kean Siew

Lim Kean Siew (5 June 1922 - 30 September 2007) was a former politician and lawyer who served as secretary–general and the chairman of the Labour Party of Malaya and a leader of the Malaysian opposition Socialist Front coalition in the 1960s.

He was an elected MP for the Dato Kramat constituency in 1959 and 1964 under the Socialist Front banner. He later joined the MCA in 1975 as a presidential adviser, and was Pengkalan Kota assemblyman from 1980 to 1982.

Kean Siew came from a family of lawyers who were also left-wing politicians. His brother was constitutional expert Lim Kean Chye who founded the Malayan Democratic Union, while his sister Datuk P.G. Lim was a Labour Party candidate who later served as ambassador. Their father, Cheng Ean, was also a noted barrister and a legislative councillor in the 1930s. Provided by Wikipedia