Lai Teck

Lai Teck
Portrait, c. late-1930s.
Secretary-General of Communist Party of Malaya
In office
April 1939 – 6 March 1947
Preceded byYang Shaomin
Succeeded byChin Peng
Personal details
Born
Hoang A Nhac[1] or Phạm Văn Đắc[2]

1901 (1901)[3]
Nghệ Tĩnh Province, Annam[4]
(According to Vietnamese historians: Bà Rịa, French Cochinchina)[5]
Died6 March 1947 (aged 45–46)
Bangkok, Thailand
Cause of deathSuffocation
Resting placeMenam River
Political partyCommunist Party of Malaya
Other political
affiliations		Malayan People's Anti-Japanese Army
OccupationPolitician, spy
Other namesLai Tek, Loi Tak, Lee Soong,[3] Wong Kim Geok,[6] Chang Hung, Mr. Wright[7]

Lai Teck (real name Phạm Văn Đắc or Hoang A Nhac; 1901–1947) was a leader of the Communist Party of Malaya and Malayan People's Anti-Japanese Army. A person of mixed Sino-Vietnamese descent,[7][8] prior to his arrival in Malaya, Lai Teck was believed to have led his life as Truong Phuoc Dat until 1934, during which Dat disappeared and Lai Teck appeared.[9]

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  4. ^ University of Madras (1980). The Indian Year Book of International Affairs. University of Madras. p. 406.
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  6. ^ Constance Mary Turnbull (1989). A History of Singapore, 1819-1988. Oxford University Press. p. 147. ISBN 0-19-588911-8.
  7. ^ a b Cheah Boon Kheng (1992). From Pki to the Comintern, 1924-1941. SEAP Publications. p. 28. ISBN 0-87727-125-9.
  8. ^ Carl A. Trocki (2005). Singapore: Wealth, Power And The Culture Of Control. Routledge. p. 103. ISBN 0-415-26385-9.
  9. ^ Judge, Sophie Quinn, Ho Chi Minh: The Missing Years, 1919-1941, C. Hurst & Co. Publishers, 2003, ISBN 1850656584