When Run Run Shaw’s son was kidnapped in Singapore by gunmen and held captive for nearly 12 days

“Four armed men today kidnapped in broad daylight the eldest son of Mr Run Run Shaw, the multi-millionaire and cinema magnate,” reported the South China Morning Post on February 6, 1964.

“Mr Vee Meng Shaw (32), a lawyer and legal adviser in his father’s enterprise, the Shaw Brothers organisation, was kidnapped while he was on his way to work with his wife in a chauffeur-driven car [in Singapore].

“Four gunmen, in a van, blocked the way…