"To claim Chin Peng was rewarded with "pockets of gold" for fighting the Japanese is ridiculous. The only gold around in those days went straight from the tin mines and rubber plantations of Malaya into the banks of England."
Nonsense Hong Xing and you know it! The monies that most definitely were paid to Chin Peng should not be confused with the revenue from the mines and plantations. Chin Peng's money came from the foreign office, as you should well know and would have been paid in such a way as to have avoided him being seen to be taking a pay off, his followers would have been most disappointed!
Your mention of such term as 'Emergency' and 'War' lead me to think that you don't know a whole lot about the insurance industry, either.