Call for help

As is well known to every reader of Straits Times Interactive, news articles are accessible for a total of four--four miserly days (Channel News Asia keep their stuff for 8 days, not much better). Articles in the Straits Times archive is available at a S$2/article fee or a S$900 for a yearly subscription for the service at the SPH (Singapore Press Holding) Newslink.

I am appealing to kind souls out there who saved ST stories relating to Singapore's relief effort (both official and private) from 26 Dec 2004 to 5 Jan 2005. It will greatly help me in putting this blog together.

Just one story I am looking for, as an example. Within days of the disaster, the Singapore Land Rover Club--an informal forum of land rover drivers in Singapore, organised a convoy to deliver supplies to Thailand. As of today, all I can find on the web are stories about the funeral of Richard Fong, a leader of the convoy who was killed in a road accident on the way to Krabi, Thailand (a sad day it is.) But it would be nice the whole story of the Land Rover Club's part in the relief effort could be told. [Update: Thanks to the help of two friends, this story has been given its initial coverage in this post; but many details of the activities of the convoys are still out there.]

So please help if you can by emailing any relevant ST/CNA stories you have in the above stated time frame, or articles from other harder to get sources, to me at philoyhc@gmail.com. Just make sure it's not classified material.

Thank you!