PKR’s Sim Tze Zin paid a heartfelt tribute to his late grandfather, a Chinese immigrant who personified the rags-to-riches success story through sheer perseverance during tumultuous times in Malaya.

In a social media post, the Bayan Baru MP shared that his grandfather, who passed away recently at the age of 93, was born into abject poverty in British Malaya in 1930 to a family that had fled famine and civil war in China a decade earlier.

“Like many early Straits Chinese, he had to...