at this time malaya, which included what is now peninsular malaysia and singapore, had the largest overseas chinese population outside of china itself. many of them were rich and carried out activities for the revolutionaries. on november 13, 1910, sun yat-sen, along with several leading figures of the tongmenghui, gathered at the penang conference to draw up plans for a decisive battle. the following day on november 14, 1910, sun yat-sen chaired an emergency meeting of the tongmenghui at 120 armenian street (now the sun yat-sen museum penang) and raised straits dollars $8,000 on the spot. the planning events are known as the 1910 penang conference. originally planned to occur on april 13, 1911, the preparations on april 8 did not go as planned, delaying the date to april 27.