I swear, the magazine in my hands now will one day be a collector’s item and a national treasure. Definitely. I obtained the November 13th, 1987 copy of Asiaweek last week while rummaging through the box of one of our clients. It wasn’t worth anything to our client, but it was worth its weight in gold to me.
As you probably can tell from the front page of the November 13th issue that Asiaweek covered the round-up of people in 1987, an event we’ve come to know as Ops Lalang. I’ve scanned and uploaded them on flickr for posterity. Copyright belongs to Asiaweek, of course.
It was funny reading through the rest of the magazine, like taking a step back into time. There were some speculations of China opening up, Deng Xiaoping, Zhang Ziyang and the rest. And heck, advertisements for the best in computing at the time: an Intel 80286… heh heh. How things have changed, in 19 years.
Comments (8)
great share.
mahathir gemuk. haha.
Was quite excited when I first saw the magazine lying on a table, forlorn and unattended.. so took the opportunity to ask for it, haha!
On the lookout for more such treasures…
wah. Mahathir looked damn young man….
Eh, can scan the article into pdf format and host it on the textfiend server
Yah but when I tried scanning into pdf the file quite big lah. Will do that tonight and see how!
xpyre:
I used to keep such “collectibles” of AW (plus FEER), some remain in da storeroom keeping croaches happy.
One day we host Garage sales together to raise RM20mil and rertire, eh? to an I-LAND where no one need to expire. LOL
LOL! I want to retire NOW, then spend the rest of my days blogging about little mishaps in the country LOL…
or spend the rest of my life touring the rest of the world. Now that sounds better…!
By the way, if you or anyone else can get a hold of the Reid Commission papers, I’d be very grateful. The ones I’ve seen in bookshops look (i.e. read) as if they’re incomplete (which aren’t called the Reid Commission papers).