Flashback #Star50: Farming town ravaged by deadly virus

By RSN MURALI



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SOMETIME in early 1999, I was fiddling with my new mobile phone, a Nokia 5110, when then Temiang assemblyman Datuk Lee Yuen Fong called me as soon as I put in the SIM card.

I could recall his words vividly.

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