PAP - THE WEAKEST LINK

IDENTIFY PAP'S WEAKEST LINK IN JURONG GRC - VOTE NOW!

The Jurong GRC was uncontested in 2006. In July 2008 one of the PAP MPs here Dr Ong Chit Chung passed away but the ruling party steadfastly refused to call for a by-election. Since then the PAP Jurong GRC team has lost two more members, namely Lim Boon Heng
, a long-time Minister without Portfolio who decided to quit politics, and Grace Fu, who is contesting in the Yuhua SMC.

The two survivors, Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam (who takes over Lim as the anchor minister) and Halimah Yacob are joined in this election by PAP new faces Desmond Lee, Ang Wei Neng and David Ong.

Is this new PAP Jurong GRC line-up a tight fighting unit or will they fall apart as soon as the challenges begin? Amongst them, one is The Weakest Link.

 Who is The Weakest Link? Singaporeans, you decide.

Candidate 1: Desmond Lee Ti-Seng

One of the emerging PAP prince-lings, Lee, 35, is the son of former Minister Lee Yock Suan. He served as a Legal Service Officer with different government ministries before landing himself a job as a legal counsel of government-linked Temasek Holdings.

Highest Education Qualifications

Masters degree in law, University of Oxford

Career

Past	Justices’ Law Clerk of the Supreme Court
	Deputy Public Prosecutor and State Counsel, Criminal Justice Division, Attorney General’s Chambers,
	Head of Legal Department, Ministry of Health
	Deputy Director, Legal Policy Division, Ministry of Law
Present	Associate Director, Legal & Regulations Department, Temasek Holdings (Private) Limited

Candidate 2: Halimah Yacob

A lawyer by training, Halimah was called to the Singapore Bar in 1981. However she is now deeply involved with NTUC and has been its Assistant Secretary General since 1990. Often portrayed in the mainstream media as a champion for workers’ rights, Halimah seldom brings attention to the fact that she is a Board Director of SMRT Corp its subsidiaries, and other government-related entities.

Highest Education Qualifications

LL. M (National University of Singapore)

Career

1990-Present	Assistant Secretary-General, NTUC
1992-Present	Director (Legal Service), NTUC-ARU
1998-Present	Director, Singapore Insitute of Labour Studies

Board of Directors

Non-Executive Director, SMRT Corp. Ltd.

Board Director, SMRT Trains Ltd.

Board Director, SMRT Road Holdings Ltd.

Board Member, Temasek Cares CGL Ltd

Board Director, NTUC Thrift & Loan

Board Member, Mendaki Holdings Pte Ltd.

Other Key Appointments

Chairman, Jurong Town Council

Member, International Labour Organisation

Secretary, NTUC Women’s Committee

Trustee of 8 NTUC affiliated unions

Member, Board of Trustees, NTUC Childcare

Chairperson, Tripartite Workgroup on Enhancing Employment Choices for Women

Co-Chairperson, Tripartite Alliance on Fair Employment Practices

Co-Chairperson, Employability Network

Co-Chairperson, UFUK Co-operative

Member, Board of Governors of the Ong Teng Cheong Institute of Labour Studies

Member of Board of Trustees, National University of Singapore

Member, Tribunal for Parents

Member, Ang Mo Kio Community Hospital & Medifund Committee

President, Malay Teachers’ Union Co-operative

Patron of the Young Muslim Women’s Association

Candidate 3: Ang Wei Neng

Ang, 44, is identified in the mainstream media as SBS Transit (West District) Vice-President, although an internet reference reveals otherwise that his job title is “Vice President, Security SBS Transit”.  This is consistent with the fact that Ang represented SBS in 2004/2005 in the National Crime Prevention Council’s Security in Public Transport Committee. Ang was Director, Operations Development of SBS in 2007 – a time when the high problematic EZ-Link card was being tested before forcibly introduced upon commuters.

Highest Education Qualifications

MBA, Nanyang Technological University

Career

Past	Police Psychological Unit (PPU), Singapore Police Force (SPF)
	Head of Operations and Training, Ang Mo Kio Police Division HQ, SPF
	Private Sector managerial positions in “operations and business development with regional responsibilities covering Malaysia, Thailand, Hong Kong and China”
	Director, Operations Development of SBS
Present	Vice-President West District / Security, SBS Transit

Candidate 4: David Ong Kim Huat

Ong is the managing director of RedDot Publishing and he has been branded as the “first entrepreneur to be unveiled in the line-up of PAP”. The mainstream media has taken care to omit that Ong receives a fair bit of business from government linked entities. RedDot Publishing proudly proclaim itself as “the leading publisher of tourist related maps and guides since 1997 for the Singapore Tourism Board”. It was also appointed by Singapore Airlines to publish their “Hop-on Guide” from 2003 to 2007 and from Oct 2010 onwards

Highest Education Qualifications

Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration, University of Oregon

Career

Past	Regional Marketing Director, Visa International and Reed Elsevier
	Founder,  “an integrated marketing consultancy agency”
Present	Managing Director, RedDot Publishing Inc

Other Key Appointments

District Councillor of the Central Singapore Community Development Council

Member, REACH Supervisory Panel

Chairman of People’s Association Active Ageing Council

Member, NTUC U Care Fund Board of Trustees

Member, ITE College Central Advisory Committee

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