Govt: Parliament to Query on Preferential Treatment in NS

• QX179R

  15 Oct 11, 22:38

  SINGAPORE: The Government Parliamentary Committee (GPC) for Defence intends to raise in Parliament several defence-related issues highlighted in public recently.

  In addition to points in the Defence Ministry's addendum, the GPC will raise issues like perceived preferential treatment during National Service (NS), deferment and disruption policies as well as concerns that children of new citizens or permanent residents give up their citizenship to evade NS.

  The chairman of GPC for Defence, Dr Lim Wee Kiak, told Channel NewsAsia that for next week's Parliament sitting, he has filed a question on perceived preferential treatment during NS - something highlighted during the recent Presidential Election.
  
  He has asked Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen to "clear the air" on the matter related to Dr Patrick Tan's prolonged disruption from NS.
  
  Dr Patrick Tan is President Tony Tan Keng Yam's son.
  
  Dr Lim said: "There shouldn't be any doubt in Singaporeans' mind as far as Mindef's policy is concerned (that) there must be fairness in terms of who get disrupted and who doesn't get disrupted. As a result, it doesn't cause resentment, it doesn't divide the society."
  
  On Dr Patrick Tan's NS deployment to the Defence Medical Research Institute, Dr Lim said NSmen should be deployed according to their skill sets.
  
  Dr Lim said: "In the sense that if he has certain skills that we can use, then (there is) no point using him as a cook or a driver or an infantry man.
  
  "We do have naval architects coming to serve their reservist as their role as naval architects, because they studied in the subject. So, when the Navy wants to build a new ship, they call back our NSmen who are naval architects, so they serve in their role."
  
  Dr Lim also wants Mindef to review its deferment and disruption policies, especially with many universities having different starting dates for their terms.
  
  Dr Lim said: "There are many different universities now in Singapore, with the enrolment or the starting dates for their term different from one another.
  
  "Our education scene has changed drastically, so must the SAF as well, in the sense that they have to keep up with times and look at approved universities, approved degrees. I think the list certainly should be expanded."
  
  The GPC will also address concerns that children of new citizens or PRs may choose to give up their citizenship to evade National Service, after enjoying benefits such as subsidised education in Singapore.
  
  Dr Lim said: "There have been some suggestions....(if) you are a PR and when you have a child that is going to serve NS, should we ask them to put in a bond. If your child refuses to do NS, then you forgo the bond."
  
  Dr Lim hopes his fellow MPs would raise more questions during the debate in Parliament.
  
  - CNA/ir

• lce

  15 Oct 11, 22:47

  who set the rules n who can bend it?

  any jackass can tell u

• Dalforce 25

  15 Oct 11, 22:55

   

  Tony Tan is relative of Lee Kuan Yew family

   

  A bunch of relatives and lackies

  
  One sees many elected officers of PAP as well as top civil servant are relative of one another.
  
  Family of Shylock
  
  Kwa Siew Tee is Lee Kuan Yew’s father-in-law (i.e, Kwa Geok Choo’s father). 
  
  Lee Kuan Yew’s mother-in-law (i.e, Kwa Geok Choo’s mother, Wee Yew Neo) and Banker Tan Chin Tuan’s wife (Helen Wee) are sisters.
  
  So Tan Chin Tuan is Lee Kuan Yew’s uncle-in-law.
  
  Tony Tan is Tan Chin Tuan’s nephew.
  
  Both Kwa Siew Tee and Tan Chin Tuan were top bankers of OCBC. The financialization of Singapore’s economy whereby banksters parasite feed on the productive citizen can easily be understood — if one is aware how deeply Lee Kuan Yew is connected with shylock.
  

  

  
  

  Both Wee Yew Neo and Helen Wee are daughters of Wee Theam Seng (i.e, Kwa Geok Choo's maternal grandfather). In other words, both Kwa Siew Tee and Tan Chin Tuan are son-in-laws of Wee Theam Seng.

  Lee Kuan Yew and Kwa Geok Choo's wedding reception at Raffles Hotel. Mr Lee Kuan Yew(fifth right) is the eldest son of Mr and Mrs Lee Chin Koon and the bride (fourth right) is the third daughter of Mr and Mrs Kwa Siew Tee. Both are barristers and members of the old Straits Chinese families.

  
  

  

  
  Relationship between Tony Tan and Tan Chin Tuan can be found in this article, ‘Tony Tan pays tribute to banker Tan Chin Tuan’ (Business Times, 18/11/2005).
  Relationship between Tony Tan and Tan Chin Tuan
  

  Group photo of founding of OCBC in 1932 showing: Front Row - Khoo Soo Hong (2nd from left), Tan Chin Tuan (4th from left), Yeo Thian Siew (5th from left), Tan Eng Kiam (6th from left), Ong Piah Teng (7th from left). Back Row - Yap Peng Gek (left),Kwa Siew Tee (3rd from left), Chew Hock Leong (6th left) and Mr Teo (right)

  Both Kwa Siew Tee and Tan Chin Tuan were top bankers of OCBC
  
  Tony Tan the best actor
  
  In public, Tony Tan shows himself as a humble and wise man. Unfortunately nothing is further from truth. Nothing good can be expected from scion of banker. While Singaporean focus on Ho Ching and her Temasek fiasco, few people knew that GIC under the charge of Tony Tan has lost its pants in 2008 crisis.
  
  In short, Tony Tan has blown up Singapore’s pension aka the corrupt CPF. He is responsible for condemning Singaporean to a work till death because CPF is effectively being wipe out in real terms. (PAP is going to stealth default CPF).
  
  Update: More relations
  
  Teo Chee Hean's father Teo Cheng Guan was given a job by Tan Chin Tuan in OCBC after the war...Teo Cheng Guan subsequently met his wife who was also working in OCBC and got married and gave birth to Teo Chee Hean
  
  Teo Cheng Guan rose all the way to the top and was Chairman of OCBC from 1989 to 1991.
  
  After leaving Cabinet in 1991, Dr Tan returned to OCBC. He took over from DPM Teo’s father and served as Chairman of OCBC from 1992 to 1995.
  
  Yong Pung How, a schoolmate of Mr Lee Kuan Yew and his wife, Kwa Geok Choo. In 1971, Yong switched from law to finance, and formed Singapore International Merchant Bankers Limited (SIMBL) and the Malaysian International Merchant Bankers (MIMB) in Malaysia serving as Chairman and Managing Director of both companies. At the same time he also served as a member of the Singapore Securities Industry Council from 1972 to 1981. He announced his retirement from the SIMBL and MIMB offices in 1976. That same year, Yong was appointed Vice-Chairman of the Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation (OCBC).
  
  He was seconded in 1982 by the Singapore Government to form and head the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC), and the Monetary Authority of Singapore as well. His experience in commercial banking proved to be invaluable to GIC as he effectively re-organized and streamlined the use of Singapore's foreign reserves.
  He was also made Deputy Chairman of the Currency Commissioners, and Alternate Governor for Singapore of the International Monetary Fund.
  
  Yong returned to the Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation in 1983, as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer before returning to law as a judge in 1989.
  
  in an interview of Tan Sri Tan Chin Tuan in 1981, the reporter asked "Are you ever angry with the Government for taking away your right and left hand men (referring to Tony Tan, Yong Pang How, Wong Pakshong)
  
  Tan Sri Tan's reply was : "I regard it as sending them off for National Service"

  http://singaporeelection.blogspot.com/2011/07/tony-tan-is-relative-lee-kuan-yew.html

   

  Tan Chin Tuan

  By Tan, Eugene written on 23-Feb-2002
  National Library Board Singapore

  Comments on article: InfopediaTalk

   

  Tan Sri Tan Chin Tuan (b. 21 November 1908, Singapore - d. 13 November 2005, Singapore), nicknamed Mr OCBC, is a prominent Peranakan philanthropist and often credited as the man who built the Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation (OCBC). 
  
  Early history
  Tan Chin Tuan grew up in the Depression years under austere conditions, having lost his father whilst still at school. Many say these early years formed his conservative approach to financing. Educated at Anglo-Chinese School, he first worked for the Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation (OCBC) as a clerk on 1 March 1925 at the age of seventeen. He would remain at OCBC for 58 years altogether. He was Managing Director of OCBC from 1942 to 1972, and Chairman from 1966 to 1983. Under Tan's stewardship, OCBC rose from its humble beginnings to become among the world's top banks.
  
  Philanthropist
  Tan Chin Tuan is also a noted philanthropist. In 1984, he donated 350,000 pound sterling to the Needham Research Institute (NRI) in Cambridge, United Kingdom. The NRI is now one of the top three centres on Chinese science and technology in the world. The library block at NRI is named after him. In 1997, he committed S$250,000 each year towards the Nanyang Technological University's exchange programme in engineering. The Tan Chin Tuan exchange fellowship will allow 20 academics to conduct research at NTU or be sent overseas.
  
  In 1999, Tan Chin Tuan celebrated his 91st birthday by promising $1,000 to Singaporeans over 90 who were lucid and active. Mr. Tan wanted to share his good fortune with people of a similar age. At least 60 volunteers and Justices of the Peace checked the health of over 1,282 applicants. It is estimated that his birthday gift cost him $1.2 million.
  
  Timeline
  1 Mar 1925 : Joins Chinese Commercial Bank (CCB) as a junior bank clerk
  1932 : Assistant Manager of CCB prior to its merger with Ho Hong Bank and Oversea-Chinese Bank in that same year, to form the Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation (OCBC). He then took on the position as Divisional Manager.
  1933 : Bank Manager of OCBC
  1939 : Managing Director, Eastern Realty, OCBC's subsidiary
  1942 : Joint Managing Director, OCBC, the youngest Managing Director in local history then
  1945 : Sole Managing Director, OCBC
  1966 - 1983 : Chairman and Managing Director, OCBC.  After retiring in September 1983, conferred lifetime honorary president. 
  
  Positions
  1939 : Municipal Commissioner
  1948 - 1951 : initially a Member of the Singapore Executive Council but rose through the ranks to become Senior Member
  17 April 1951 - 1955 : Deputy President, Singapore Executive Council. In this capacity, he was to serve as an intermediary between the colonial government and the local community.
  1983 - 1986 : Chairman, Singapore Turf Club
  
  He had also been chairman of companies such as Malayan Breweries Ltd, the Overseas Assurance Corporation Ltd, Wearne Brothers Ltd., Fraser and Neave, Great Eastern Life, Tan Sri Tan Foundation, Robinson & Co. and The Straits Trading Co. Ltd.
  Patron of organisations such as the Orchid Society of Southeast Asia, the SPCA, and the Singapore Badminton Association.
  
  Awards
  1951 : Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, for his contributions during his service in the Legislative Council.
  1969 : Malaysia's Yang Di Pertuan Agong Sultan Tuanku Ismail Nasiruddin Shah confers title of Tan Sri
  3 September 1991: Honorary Doctor of Law, National University, Singapore "in recognition of his role as banker, civic leader and public benefactor."
  13 June 1992 : Honorary Doctorate of Letters, Curtin University, Australia "in recognition of his contribution to the banking community and his close association with Australia".
  
  Family
  Father : Tan Cheng Siong, a banker
  Wife : Helen Wee, a banker's daughter
  Son : One son
  Daughters : Two daughter, one being Mrs Kheng Choo Campbell
  Granddaughter : Ms Chew Gek Khim, director of a consultancy firm
  Nephew : Dr Tony Tan
  
  Hobbies include rearing fish, birds and dogs and growing orchids.

  http://infopedia.nl.sg/articles/SIP_155_2004-12-27.html

   

   

• Dalforce 25

  15 Oct 11, 23:07

  Madam Kwa Geok Choo – wife of Singapore’s founding father Lee Kuan Yew and mother of PM Lee Hsien Loong – passed away peacefully at her home at 5.40 pm yesterday at the age of 89.

  

  KWA GEOK CHOO

  Madam Kwa was born in Dec 1920 to banker Mr Kwa Siew Tee and was one of 8 children. She was a brilliant student at Methodist Girls’ School, topping the 1936 Senior Cambridge Examination for the whole of Malaya and Singapore.

  http://lifeisreallybeautiful.com/tag/kwa-siew-tee/

• Dalforce 25

  15 Oct 11, 23:09

   

  The patriarch: Kwa Geok Choo's father

  
  

  Year 1932, GROUP PHOTOGRAPH OF FOUNDING OF OCBC SHOWING:

  FRONT ROW: KHOO SOO HONG (SECOND FROM LEFT), TAN CHIN TUAN (FOURTH FROM LEFT), YEO THIAN SIEW (FIFTH FROM LEFT), TAN ENG KIAM (SIXTH FROM LEFT), ONG PIAH TENG (SEVENTH FROM LEFT). 

  BACK ROW: YAP PENG GEK (LEFT), KWA SIEW TEE (THIRD FROM LEFT), CHEW HOCK LEONG (SIXTH LEFT) AND MR TEO (RIGHT)

  
  
  

  
  

  Powerful and Influencial Figure
  Little known Kwa Siew Tee (柯守智), Kwa Geok Choo's (LKY wife) father was immensely rich and one of the most powerful man in Singapore. He had been appointed the Municipal Commissioner in 1947, and Public Service Commissioner in 1953. Both are extremely powerful position and in theory, held the power to appoint and dismiss top civil servants.
  
  Forex Trader 
  Kwa was a senior bankster in OCBC doing things related to forex trading. Banksters do not produce anything, they simply feed on productive host economy. Wonder PAP's perpetual policy to increase asset price screwing the working class, is due to all these bankster relative.
  
  Inter-marriage between powerful families
  

  • Kwa Siew Tee's wife Wee Yew Neo, is daughter of Wee Theam Seng, a senior OCBC Banker.
  • Kwa Siew Tee's brother-in-law is Tan Chin Tuan, who married Helen Wee, another daughter of Wee Theam Seng.

  
  

  
  OCBC Alumni
  OCBC influences on Singapore are comparable to  Goldman Sachs on USA. A large disproportional number of powerful office holders are connected to OCBC. To name a few below.
  
  Lee Kuan Yew PM
  -  father-in-law OCBC senior banker
  
  Yong Pung How Chief Justice
  - 1976-1982 work in OCBC
  
  Teo Chee Hean Deputy PM
  - father Teo Cheng Guan OCBC chairman 1989-1991
  
  Tony Tan Deputy PM
  - family is one of OCBC founders
  
  2nd Generation Kwa, many illustrious figures
  2 out of 3 survivng sons of Kwa Siew Tee hold perm sec position and many of important appointments. One of the son-in-law was made minister in LKY's cabinet. The 3rd generation are less prominent in public office but do not under-estimate their hidden wealth and influences. 
  
  
  Sons
  Kwa Soon Hock 柯顺�
  -Died Young
  
  Kwa Soon Lock 柯顺禄
  -Killed by Japanese
  
  Kwa Soon Siew æŸ¯é¡ºå¯¿
  - no info 
  
  

  Kwa Soon Chuan 柯顺全

  -Perm Sec and many other top appointments

  
  

  Kwa Soon Bee 柯顺美

  -Perm Sec and many other top appointments

  
  Daughter
  Kwa Geok Neo 柯玉娘 
   -
  
  

  Kwa Geok Lan 柯玉兰

  - married Yong Nyuk Lin �玉麟 who later became minister of various ministries

  
  Kwa Geok Choo 柯玉�
  - married LKY, PM of Singapore
  
  Kwa Geok Lian 柯玉莲
  - married Earnest Lau, a school principal
  
  Kwa Geok Eng 柯玉英
  - no info 
  
  Kwa's family and LKY road to power
  Without the Kwa family network of powerful families, it is questionable whether LKY can emerge as the leader of PAP in 1950s given then, there are many other extremely capable and charismatic leaders in the party. The nexus of Kwa family probably also helped LKY to win the trust of British, which handed over to him the control of security apparatus. That is the key LKY is able arrest his political opponents.

  
  

   

  http://veritas-lux.blogspot.com/2011_06_01_archive.html

  Ho Hong Bank

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_Hong_Bank

   

• Dalforce 25

  15 Oct 11, 23:15

  This Harry Lee Kuan Yew is quite well connected with the peranakan banking tycoons in Singapore. 

• Rock^Star

  16 Oct 11, 00:20

  This questioning of preferential treatment by lim wee kiak seems to be a case of "ok go ahead and ask because we have ready answers". Haha wtf as usual.

  If they could, they would have asked for GIC and Temasek to be more transparent.

• Darkness_hacker99

  16 Oct 11, 00:33

  Here we go again

• Rock^Star

  16 Oct 11, 13:21

  PAP MPs in singapore parliament.....I believe their motto is: "Ask only what we can answer, not what we cannot."

• Dalforce 25

  16 Oct 11, 13:29

  Get paid on time can already lah.

• Hitman Factory 1

  16 Oct 11, 15:49

  ...........so basically if u see an underaged general or some prime admiral ....then................
• Hitman Factory 1

  16 Oct 11, 15:51

  Originally posted by Dalforce 25:

   

  Tony Tan is relative of Lee Kuan Yew family

   

  A bunch of relatives and lackies

  
  One sees many elected officers of PAP as well as top civil servant are relative of one another.
  
  Family of Shylock
  
  Kwa Siew Tee is Lee Kuan Yew’s father-in-law (i.e, Kwa Geok Choo’s father). 
  
  Lee Kuan Yew’s mother-in-law (i.e, Kwa Geok Choo’s mother, Wee Yew Neo) and Banker Tan Chin Tuan’s wife (Helen Wee) are sisters.
  
  So Tan Chin Tuan is Lee Kuan Yew’s uncle-in-law.
  
  Tony Tan is Tan Chin Tuan’s nephew.
  
  Both Kwa Siew Tee and Tan Chin Tuan were top bankers of OCBC. The financialization of Singapore’s economy whereby banksters parasite feed on the productive citizen can easily be understood — if one is aware how deeply Lee Kuan Yew is connected with shylock.
  

  

  
  Both Wee Yew Neo and Helen Wee are daughters of Wee Theam Seng (i.e, Kwa Geok Choo's maternal grandfather). In other words, both Kwa Siew Tee and Tan Chin Tuan are son-in-laws of Wee Theam Seng. Lee Kuan Yew and Kwa Geok Choo's wedding reception at Raffles Hotel. Mr Lee Kuan Yew(fifth right) is the eldest son of Mr and Mrs Lee Chin Koon and the bride (fourth right) is the third daughter of Mr and Mrs Kwa Siew Tee. Both are barristers and members of the old Straits Chinese families.
  

  

  
  Relationship between Tony Tan and Tan Chin Tuan can be found in this article, ‘Tony Tan pays tribute to banker Tan Chin Tuan’ (Business Times, 18/11/2005).
  Relationship between Tony Tan and Tan Chin Tuan
  Group photo of founding of OCBC in 1932 showing: Front Row - Khoo Soo Hong (2nd from left), Tan Chin Tuan (4th from left), Yeo Thian Siew (5th from left), Tan Eng Kiam (6th from left), Ong Piah Teng (7th from left). Back Row - Yap Peng Gek (left),Kwa Siew Tee (3rd from left), Chew Hock Leong (6th left) and Mr Teo (right)

  Both Kwa Siew Tee and Tan Chin Tuan were top bankers of OCBC
  
  Tony Tan the best actor
  
  In public, Tony Tan shows himself as a humble and wise man. Unfortunately nothing is further from truth. Nothing good can be expected from scion of banker. While Singaporean focus on Ho Ching and her Temasek fiasco, few people knew that GIC under the charge of Tony Tan has lost its pants in 2008 crisis.
  
  In short, Tony Tan has blown up Singapore’s pension aka the corrupt CPF. He is responsible for condemning Singaporean to a work till death because CPF is effectively being wipe out in real terms. (PAP is going to stealth default CPF).
  
  Update: More relations
  
  Teo Chee Hean's father Teo Cheng Guan was given a job by Tan Chin Tuan in OCBC after the war...Teo Cheng Guan subsequently met his wife who was also working in OCBC and got married and gave birth to Teo Chee Hean
  
  Teo Cheng Guan rose all the way to the top and was Chairman of OCBC from 1989 to 1991.
  
  After leaving Cabinet in 1991, Dr Tan returned to OCBC. He took over from DPM Teo’s father and served as Chairman of OCBC from 1992 to 1995.
  
  Yong Pung How, a schoolmate of Mr Lee Kuan Yew and his wife, Kwa Geok Choo. In 1971, Yong switched from law to finance, and formed Singapore International Merchant Bankers Limited (SIMBL) and the Malaysian International Merchant Bankers (MIMB) in Malaysia serving as Chairman and Managing Director of both companies. At the same time he also served as a member of the Singapore Securities Industry Council from 1972 to 1981. He announced his retirement from the SIMBL and MIMB offices in 1976. That same year, Yong was appointed Vice-Chairman of the Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation (OCBC).
  
  He was seconded in 1982 by the Singapore Government to form and head the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC), and the Monetary Authority of Singapore as well. His experience in commercial banking proved to be invaluable to GIC as he effectively re-organized and streamlined the use of Singapore's foreign reserves.
  He was also made Deputy Chairman of the Currency Commissioners, and Alternate Governor for Singapore of the International Monetary Fund.
  
  Yong returned to the Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation in 1983, as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer before returning to law as a judge in 1989.
  
  in an interview of Tan Sri Tan Chin Tuan in 1981, the reporter asked "Are you ever angry with the Government for taking away your right and left hand men (referring to Tony Tan, Yong Pang How, Wong Pakshong)
  
  Tan Sri Tan's reply was : "I regard it as sending them off for National Service"

  http://singaporeelection.blogspot.com/2011/07/tony-tan-is-relative-lee-kuan-yew.html

   

  Tan Chin Tuan

  By Tan, Eugene written on 23-Feb-2002
  National Library Board Singapore

  Comments on article: InfopediaTalk

   

  Tan Sri Tan Chin Tuan (b. 21 November 1908, Singapore - d. 13 November 2005, Singapore), nicknamed Mr OCBC, is a prominent Peranakan philanthropist and often credited as the man who built the Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation (OCBC). 
  
  Early history
  Tan Chin Tuan grew up in the Depression years under austere conditions, having lost his father whilst still at school. Many say these early years formed his conservative approach to financing. Educated at Anglo-Chinese School, he first worked for the Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation (OCBC) as a clerk on 1 March 1925 at the age of seventeen. He would remain at OCBC for 58 years altogether. He was Managing Director of OCBC from 1942 to 1972, and Chairman from 1966 to 1983. Under Tan's stewardship, OCBC rose from its humble beginnings to become among the world's top banks.
  
  Philanthropist
  Tan Chin Tuan is also a noted philanthropist. In 1984, he donated 350,000 pound sterling to the Needham Research Institute (NRI) in Cambridge, United Kingdom. The NRI is now one of the top three centres on Chinese science and technology in the world. The library block at NRI is named after him. In 1997, he committed S$250,000 each year towards the Nanyang Technological University's exchange programme in engineering. The Tan Chin Tuan exchange fellowship will allow 20 academics to conduct research at NTU or be sent overseas.
  
  In 1999, Tan Chin Tuan celebrated his 91st birthday by promising $1,000 to Singaporeans over 90 who were lucid and active. Mr. Tan wanted to share his good fortune with people of a similar age. At least 60 volunteers and Justices of the Peace checked the health of over 1,282 applicants. It is estimated that his birthday gift cost him $1.2 million.
  
  Timeline
  1 Mar 1925 : Joins Chinese Commercial Bank (CCB) as a junior bank clerk
  1932 : Assistant Manager of CCB prior to its merger with Ho Hong Bank and Oversea-Chinese Bank in that same year, to form the Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation (OCBC). He then took on the position as Divisional Manager.
  1933 : Bank Manager of OCBC
  1939 : Managing Director, Eastern Realty, OCBC's subsidiary
  1942 : Joint Managing Director, OCBC, the youngest Managing Director in local history then
  1945 : Sole Managing Director, OCBC
  1966 - 1983 : Chairman and Managing Director, OCBC.  After retiring in September 1983, conferred lifetime honorary president. 
  
  Positions
  1939 : Municipal Commissioner
  1948 - 1951 : initially a Member of the Singapore Executive Council but rose through the ranks to become Senior Member
  17 April 1951 - 1955 : Deputy President, Singapore Executive Council. In this capacity, he was to serve as an intermediary between the colonial government and the local community.
  1983 - 1986 : Chairman, Singapore Turf Club
  
  He had also been chairman of companies such as Malayan Breweries Ltd, the Overseas Assurance Corporation Ltd, Wearne Brothers Ltd., Fraser and Neave, Great Eastern Life, Tan Sri Tan Foundation, Robinson & Co. and The Straits Trading Co. Ltd.
  Patron of organisations such as the Orchid Society of Southeast Asia, the SPCA, and the Singapore Badminton Association.
  
  Awards
  1951 : Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, for his contributions during his service in the Legislative Council.
  1969 : Malaysia's Yang Di Pertuan Agong Sultan Tuanku Ismail Nasiruddin Shah confers title of Tan Sri
  3 September 1991: Honorary Doctor of Law, National University, Singapore "in recognition of his role as banker, civic leader and public benefactor."
  13 June 1992 : Honorary Doctorate of Letters, Curtin University, Australia "in recognition of his contribution to the banking community and his close association with Australia".
  
  Family
  Father : Tan Cheng Siong, a banker
  Wife : Helen Wee, a banker's daughter
  Son : One son
  Daughters : Two daughter, one being Mrs Kheng Choo Campbell
  Granddaughter : Ms Chew Gek Khim, director of a consultancy firm
  Nephew : Dr Tony Tan
  
  Hobbies include rearing fish, birds and dogs and growing orchids.

  http://infopedia.nl.sg/articles/SIP_155_2004-12-27.html

   

   

  
  reminds me of a cat family.even some memnbers of lky also look like cats.haizz...why all like that??
• Dalforce 25

  16 Oct 11, 15:53

  Originally posted by Hitman Factory 1:

  
  reminds me of a cat family.even some memnbers of lky also look like cats.haizz...why all like that??

  Seems like Singapore is just a fief of the Lee family and other allied peranakan families with co-opt of families from other ethnic groups.

• Rednano

  16 Oct 11, 21:32

  Originally posted by QX179R:

  SINGAPORE: The Government Parliamentary Committee (GPC) for Defence intends to raise in Parliament several defence-related issues highlighted in public recently.

  In addition to points in the Defence Ministry's addendum, the GPC will raise issues like perceived preferential treatment during National Service (NS), deferment and disruption policies as well as concerns that children of new citizens or permanent residents give up their citizenship to evade NS.

  The chairman of GPC for Defence, Dr Lim Wee Kiak, told Channel NewsAsia that for next week's Parliament sitting, he has filed a question on perceived preferential treatment during NS - something highlighted during the recent Presidential Election.
  
  He has asked Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen to "clear the air" on the matter related to Dr Patrick Tan's prolonged disruption from NS.
  
  Dr Patrick Tan is President Tony Tan Keng Yam's son.
  
  Dr Lim said: "There shouldn't be any doubt in Singaporeans' mind as far as Mindef's policy is concerned (that) there must be fairness in terms of who get disrupted and who doesn't get disrupted. As a result, it doesn't cause resentment, it doesn't divide the society."
  
  On Dr Patrick Tan's NS deployment to the Defence Medical Research Institute, Dr Lim said NSmen should be deployed according to their skill sets.
  
  Dr Lim said: "In the sense that if he has certain skills that we can use, then (there is) no point using him as a cook or a driver or an infantry man.
  
  "We do have naval architects coming to serve their reservist as their role as naval architects, because they studied in the subject. So, when the Navy wants to build a new ship, they call back our NSmen who are naval architects, so they serve in their role."
  
  Dr Lim also wants Mindef to review its deferment and disruption policies, especially with many universities having different starting dates for their terms.
  
  Dr Lim said: "There are many different universities now in Singapore, with the enrolment or the starting dates for their term different from one another.
  
  "Our education scene has changed drastically, so must the SAF as well, in the sense that they have to keep up with times and look at approved universities, approved degrees. I think the list certainly should be expanded."
  
  The GPC will also address concerns that children of new citizens or PRs may choose to give up their citizenship to evade National Service, after enjoying benefits such as subsidised education in Singapore.
  
  Dr Lim said: "There have been some suggestions....(if) you are a PR and when you have a child that is going to serve NS, should we ask them to put in a bond. If your child refuses to do NS, then you forgo the bond."
  
  Dr Lim hopes his fellow MPs would raise more questions during the debate in Parliament.
  
  - CNA/ir

  
  it's already an open book secret...

  the paper cannot cover/ hide the fire...

  we also don't see each of us posted to vocations that match our skill sets or what we learnt in tertiary schools...