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Mr Tang left Singapore after the election and eventually moved to Australia. He also lived in Malaysia and Hong Kong in his later years.
At the wake on Oct 2, Ms Kelly Tang and Mr Brendan Tang said their father had not left instructions for his funeral, but they had arranged for his wake and funeral to he held in Singapore as this was what he would have wanted.
Mr Tang never returned to Singapore, and did not attend the funeral of his wife Teo Siew Har when she died in 2019. She had lived in Singapore with Ms Kelly Tang and her family.
Ms Kelly Tang said her father had stayed interested in Singapore’s current affairs and developments, and read the newspapers every day.
Living alone in Australia and then Malaysia - before eventually moving in with his older daughter and her family in Hong Kong - he threw himself into the study of economics, which became his passion.
He also had an active social life with friends from different walks of life, cultures and faiths whom he discussed philosophy, politics, history and international affairs with, added Ms Tang.
On the 1997 episode, Mr Brendan Tang said his father did not talk about it much in his later years. “But he continued to speak of returning home one day,” he added.
The family declined to comment further on the episode.
Ms Kelly Tang said her father was accepting of the different religions practised by his wife and children, including her Christian faith.
Source:
https://www.straitstimes.com/singap...s-party-politician-tang-liang-hong-dies-at-90
