The majority of the Eight Immortals are based on figures from the Tang Dynasty (618-907) to Song Dynasty (960-1279), though some find their human counterparts in earlier entities.

SINGAPORE — Few Singaporeans would know that the Housing and Development Board's (HDB) first chief executive Howe Yoon Chong turned down an offer of a pay raise of almost 70 per cent from a private ...

A new book, The Last Fools: The Eight Immortals Of Lee Kuan Yew, sheds light on how Howe and seven other top pioneer civil servants – George Edwin Bogaars, Andrew Chew, Hon Sui Sen, Lee Ek Tieng, ...