Four days after General Election 2020 - and unencumbered by duties and meetings for the first time in his adult life - Emeritus Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong allowed himself a little chuckle.
In a Facebook post on July 14, he wrote about a health scare following the discovery of a white spot, possibly malignant, on his larynx last year. A biopsy was ruled out as he had a health complication. So a period of observation followed.
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