PAP - THE WEAKEST LINK

IDENTIFY PAP'S WEAKEST LINK IN ANG MO KIO GRC - VOTE NOW!

In 2006 the PAP expected its team in Ang Mo Kio GRC headed by Lee Hsien Loong to garnered at least 80% of votes against a group of Workers’ Party first-timers. The Prime Minister in the end suffered the ignominy of winning a below average 66.1% of popular votes.

This time round Lee has been careful to change his team around. The only other MP to remain at Ang Mo Kio is veteran Inderjit Singh. In addition to new faces Ang Hin Kee and Dr Intan Azura Mokhtar, Lee has through the redrawing of electoral boundaries roped Seng Han Thong and Yeo Guat Kwang from Yio Chu Kang SMC and Aljunied GRC respectively to strengthen his own base.

The PM himself has been hit by his own floundering popularity, while Singh, Seng and Yeo have not exactly been awe-inspiring with Singaporeans. While the Workers’ Party has said it would not send another “suicide squad” to Ang Mo Kio, it remains to be seen if the PAP can avoid another embarrassment should it face an Opposition challenge again.

The PM’s men and woman all have their own weakness. Who is The Weakest Link? Your votes will determine.

Candidate 1: Seng Han Thong

Seng comes from a journalist background with the local Chinese press but has, like many PAP MPs, since been parked with a director-level appointment with the NTUC. In 2006 he credibly won 68.28% of votes in the Yio Chu Kang SMC, but impressions of him being a well-received MP was shattered when he was punched by a disgruntled former taxi driver in May 2006. Worse thing happened in January 2009 when Seng was set ablaze by another elderly constituent and suffered burns on 15% of his body. Despite the unfortunate nature of the incident, Seng received few expressed sympathy from netizens who instead further questioned his performance serving the people.

Highest Education Qualifications

Master of Business Administration (Brunel University, England)

Career

1990	Acting Chief Editor, Shin Min Daily News
1992	Deputy Chief Editor, Lianhe Zaobao
1996	General Manager, Chinese Newspaper Division, Singapore Press Holdings
1997-Present	Divisional Director, NTUC Administration and Research Unit
Present	Assistant Secretary-General, National Trade Union Congress

Board Directorships

Director, NTUC Childcare Board of Trustees

Director, Singapore Bus Service (1978) Ltd

Director, SBS Bus Service Pte Ltd

Director, SBS Leisure Pte Ltd

Deputy Chairman, NTUC Media Co-operative Ltd

Other Key Appointments

Board Member, Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS)

Board Member, Public Utilities Board

Board Member, Land Transport Authority

Board Member, Nanyang Polytechnic Board of Governors

Board Member, Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore

Vice Chairman, Feedback Unit

Council Member, Ngee Ann Polytechnic Council

Candidate 2: Yeo Guat Kwang

Yeo has for the past 15 years been “Director, Quality Worklife Department” with the NTUC – the type of long-term employment security that many Singaporeans can now only dream of. He is better recognized as the President and public face of Consumers Association of Singapore (CASE), the consumer watchdog organization that has been reduced to a paper tiger. The dreadful untrustworthiness of the “CaseTrust” certification issued to private education institutes has done irreparably damage to Singapore’s aspirations to become an Education Hub. Meanwhile, Yeo holds a surprisingly large number of board directorships for a person who has never been in business himself.

Highest Education Qualifications

B.A. (Hons) 2nd Upper (National University of Singapore)

Executive Programme in Strategic Leadership Institute, University of California LA

Career

1987-1990	Teacher, Nanyang Junior College
1991-1992	Head of Department, Anderson Secondary School
1993-1996	Specialist Inspector for Chinese, Ministry of Education
1996-Present	Director, Quality Worklife Department, NTUC

Board Directorships

Lead Independent Director of Japan Foods Holdings Ltd

Non-Executive Chairman and Independent director, Asia Water Technology Ltd

Non-Executive Independent Director, HLH Group Limited

Non-Executive Independent Director, Koyo International Limited

Independent Director of United Envirotech Ltd

Independent Director, Advance SCT Limited

Chairman, Eco3 Technology and Engineering Pte. Ltd

Non-Executive Director, The Esplanade Co Ltd
Non-Executive Director, Eco-World Blotechnology Pte Ltd
Non-Executive Director, Singapore Chinese Orchestra Company Limited

Non-Executive Director, NAFA-Asiagate Education Corporation Pte. Ltd

Board Director, Asiagate Holdings Pte Ltd

Non-Executive Director, Grandwork Interior Pte Ltd

Director Insurance Disputes Resolution Organisation Ltd.

Other Key Appointments

Vice Chairman, Aljunied Town Council

Vice-Chairman, North East Community Development Council

President of Consumers Association of Singapore (CASE)

Board Director, PUB Board

Board Director, Land Transport Authority
Board Director, SPRING Singapore

Non-Executive Director, Agri-Food & Veterinary Authority of Singapore

Member, ITE Board of Governors

Board Director, Financial Industry Disputes Resolution Centre (FIDReC)

Alignment Director, NTUC Quality Worklife & All Nationalities

Executive Secretary, Singapore Chinese Teachers' Unions

Executive Secretary, Amalgamated Union of Statutory Board Employees

Co-Chairman, National Tripartite Committee on Workplace Health

Co-Chairman, Customer Centric Initiatives

Co-Chairman, NTUC-SNEF Migrant Workers' Forum

Candidate 3:  Ang Hin Kee

Ang is the third NTUC man in the Ang Mo Kio team. He is credited to have “grown” the Job Re-creation programme to help workers “become more employable and for the workplace to be more productive” – a task that he has clearly failed to deliver after the government’s repeated complains of plummeting productivity in Singapore.

Highest Education Qualifications

National University of Singapore with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours).

Career

Past	Deputy Director of Sports for Life, Singapore Sports Council and “senior positions in sports, statutory boards as well as the private sector”
2006	Director, Employability Enhancement Department, NTUC
Present	CEO, NTUC Employment & Employability Institute (e2i)

Other Key Appointments

Board member, National Environment Agency (NEA)

Member, tripartite committees co-ordinated by Ministry of Manpower.

Member, various committees in Chinese Development Assistance Council (CDAC)

Candidate 4: Dr Intan Azura Mokhtar

Dr Intan, 34, is a National Institute of Education lecturer who has never left school. After graduating with a Physics degree from NUS, she went on to do a Postgraduate Diploma in NIE. After teaching in a secondary school for four years, Dr Intan progressed further to obtain a Master of Science and Ph.D in Information Studies from NTU’s Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information (WSCI), and was later conferred a Master in Public Administration (MPA) by the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. What advice and solutions can she possibly provide to Singapore citizens facing real life problems?

Highest Education Qualifications

Master of Science and Ph.D in Information Studies, Wee Kim Wee

School of Communication and Information (WSCI), NTU

Master in Public Administration (MPA), Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, NUS

Career

Past	Secondary school teacher
Present	Assistant Professor in Policy and Leadership Studies, National Institute of Education (NIE)

Other Key Appointments

Board member, Singapore Muslim Women’s Association (PPIS)

Council Member, MUIS

Candidate 5: Inderjit Singh

As an entrepreneur, Singh appears to be refreshingly different from the other PAP MPs. He is named as the founder of semiconductor assembly and test company United Test and Assembly Center (UTAC), brand consumer electronics products company Solstar International Pte Ltd and semiconductor engineering company Infiniti Solutions Limited. Besides being chairman of Tri Star Electronics Pte Limited, a distributor of electronics products in Africa that claims to have annual turnover in excess of US$115 million, Singh is reported to hold directorship positions and investments in a number of start-up companies. However even Singh himself does not believe in hiring Singaporean workers. His present companies only have administrative presence here. Instead Infiniti Solutions’ IC Assembly and Test (SAT) and Electronic Manufacturing Services (EMS) operations are based in the US and Solstar International manufactures its own electrical & electronics products through partnerships with manufacturing facilities in different parts of the world.

Highest Education Qualifications

MBA (University of Strathclyde)

Career

1989	Qra Engineering Manager, Texas Instruments
1991	Advance Product Development/Test Engineering Manager, Texas Instruments
1994	Operations Manager, Texas Instruments
1996	Director of Operations, Texas Instruments
1998-2001	Founder, CEO and President, United Test and Assembly Center
1997-Present	Executive Chairman, Tri Star Electronics Pte Ltd
2001-Present	Founder and CEO, Infiniti Solution Pte Ltd

Board Directorships

Managing Director, Solstar International

Chairman, CEO and President, Infiniti Solutions

Chairman, Tri Star Electronics

Other Key Appointments

Chairman, Ang Mo Kio-Yio Chu Kang Town Council

Board Director of Spring Singapore

Board Member, Urban Redevelopment Authority

Board Member, Standards, Productivity and Innovation Board.

Deputy Chairman, Action Community for Entrepreneurship

Board member, National Youth Achievement Award

Board member, School of Science and Technology

Board member, World Entrepreneurship Forum

President, Singapore Chapter of The Indus Entrepreneurs

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