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Andre Low
Andre Low Wu Yang (, born 1991) is a Singaporean politician. A member of the Workers' Party (WP), he has been serving as a Non-constituency Member of Parliament (NCMP) for the 15th Parliament of Singapore since 19 May 2025. Early life and education Low's parents were both teachers working with the Ministry of Education, and Low was the only child in his family. He studied at University College London, graduating as third in his cohort and earning a Bachelor of Laws, and also holds a Master of Business Administration from INSEAD. Pre-political career Low first worked as a dispute lawyer with Drew & Napier, under the mentorship of senior counsel Davinder Singh. He then moved to the start-up sector where he developed products in legal-tech, urban mobility and health-tech, before joining Amazon Web Services and subsequently becoming a consultant with the Boston Consulting Group. He now works as a product manager in a fintech company. Political career Low joined the Worke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Honourable
''The Honourable'' (Commonwealth English) or ''The Honorable'' (American English; American and British English spelling differences#-our, -or, see spelling differences) (abbreviation: ''Hon.'', ''Hon'ble'', or variations) is an honorific Style (manner of address), style that is used as a prefix before the names or titles of certain people, usually with official governmental or diplomatic positions. Use by governments International diplomacy In international diplomatic relations, representatives of foreign states are often styled as ''The Honourable''. Deputy chiefs of mission, , consuls-general, consuls and honorary consuls are always given the style. All heads of consular posts, whether they are honorary or career postholders, are accorded the style according to the State Department of the United States. However, the style ''Excellency'' instead of ''The Honourable'' is used for ambassadors and high commissioners only. Africa Democratic Republic of the Congo In the Democrati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boston Consulting Group
Boston Consulting Group, Inc. (BCG) is an American global management consulting firm founded in 1963 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. It is one of the "Big Three (management consultancies), Big Three" (or MBB, the world's three largest management consulting firms by revenue) along with McKinsey & Company and Bain & Company. Since 2021, BCG has been led by the German executive Christoph Schweizer. History The firm was founded in 1963 as part of The Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Company. Bruce Henderson had been recruited from Arthur D. Little to establish the consulting arm operating as a subsidiary under the name Management and Consulting Division of the Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Company. Initially the division only advised clients of the bank, with billings for the first month at just US$500. Henderson hired his second consultant, Arthur P. Contas, in December 1963. In 1966, BCG opened its second office in Tokyo, Japan. In 1967, Henderson met Bill Bain (consulta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alumni Of University College London
Alumni (: alumnus () or alumna ()) are former students or graduates of a school, college, or university. The feminine plural alumnae is sometimes used for groups of women, and alums (: alum) or alumns (: alumn) as gender-neutral alternatives. The word comes from Latin, meaning nurslings, pupils or foster children, derived from "to nourish". The term is not synonymous with "graduates": people can be alumni without graduating, e.g. Burt Reynolds was an alumnus of Florida State University but did not graduate. The term is sometimes used to refer to former employees, former members of an organization, former contributors, or former inmates. Etymology The Latin noun means "foster son" or "pupil". It is derived from the Latin verb "to nourish". Separate, but from the same root, is the adjective "nourishing", found in the phrase '' alma mater'', a title for a person's home university. Usage in Roman law In Latin, is a legal term (Roman law) to describe a child placed in fost ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
Purpose: Because living persons may suffer personal harm from inappropriate information, we should watch their articles carefully. By adding an article to this category, it marks them with a notice about sources whenever someone tries to edit them, to remind them of WP:BLP (biographies of living persons) policy that these articles must maintain a neutral point of view, maintain factual accuracy, and be properly sourced. Recent changes to these articles are listed on Special:RecentChangesLinked/Living people. Organization: This category should not be sub-categorized. Entries are generally sorted by family name In many societies, a surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined with a given name to form the full name of a person, although several give .... Maintenance: Individuals of advanced age (over 90), for whom there has been no new documentation in the last ten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parliament Of Singapore
The Parliament of Singapore is the unicameralism, unicameral legislature of the Singapore, Republic of Singapore, which governs the country alongside the President of Singapore. Largely based upon the Westminster system, the Parliament is made up of List of Singapore MPs, Members of Parliament (MPs) who are elected, as well as Non-constituency Member of Parliament, Non-Constituency Members of Parliament (NCMPs) and Nominated Member of Parliament, Nominated Members of Parliament (NMPs) who are appointed. Following the 2025 Singaporean general election, 2025 general election, 97 MPs and two NCMPs from two political parties were General elections in Singapore, elected to the 15th Parliament of Singapore, 15th Parliament. Throughout the sitting of Parliament, nine NMPs are usually appointed by the President of Singapore, president on a biennial basis. The Speaker of the Parliament of Singapore, Speaker of Parliament has overall charge of the administration of Parliament and its secr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tampines GRC
The Tampines Group Representation Constituency is a five-member Group Representation Constituency (GRC) in the eastern region of Singapore. The GRC encompasses Tampines and is managed by the Tampines Town Council, with five divisions: Tampines East, Tampines West, Tampines Central, Tampines North and Tampines Boulevard. The current members of Parliament are Baey Yam Keng, Masagos Zulkifli, Koh Poh Koon, David Neo and Charlene Chen from the People's Action Party (PAP). History Prior to 2020 From 1988 till 2020, the GRC was contested in every election in a two way fight by various opposition parties except for the 1997 general election when it was a walkover for the PAP. In both the 2015 and 2020 general elections, the PAP had more votes shares in Tampines GRC than PAP's national vote share with 72.06% against 69.9% and 66.41% against 61.2% respectively. 2020 election On 17 July 2023, it was revealed by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong that Cheng, who was not married, h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Facebook
Facebook is a social media and social networking service owned by the American technology conglomerate Meta Platforms, Meta. Created in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with four other Harvard College students and roommates, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes, its name derives from the face book directories often given to American university students. Membership was initially limited to Harvard students, gradually expanding to other North American universities. Since 2006, Facebook allows everyone to register from 13 years old, except in the case of a handful of nations, where the age requirement is 14 years. , Facebook claimed almost 3.07 billion monthly active users worldwide. , Facebook ranked as the List of most-visited websites, third-most-visited website in the world, with 23% of its traffic coming from the United States. It was the most downloaded mobile app of the 2010s. Facebook can be accessed from devices with Internet connectivit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reddit
Reddit ( ) is an American Proprietary software, proprietary social news news aggregator, aggregation and Internet forum, forum Social media, social media platform. Registered users (commonly referred to as "redditors") submit content to the site such as links, text posts, images, and videos, which are then voted up or down ("upvoted" or "downvoted") by other members. Posts are organized by subject into user-created boards called "subreddits". Submissions with more upvotes appear towards the top of their subreddit and, if they receive enough upvotes, ultimately on the site's front page. Reddit administrators moderate the communities. Moderation is also conducted by community-specific moderators, who are unpaid volunteers. It is operated by Reddit, Inc., based in San Francisco. As of February 2025, Reddit is the List of most-visited websites, ninth-most-visited website in the world. According to data provided by Similarweb, 51.75% of the website traffic comes from the United St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ng Chee Meng
} (born 8 August 1968) is a Singaporean politician, union leader and former lieutenant-general who has been serving as Secretary-General of the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) since 2018 and as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Jalan Kayu Single Member Constituency (SMC) since 2025. Prior to entering politics, Ng served in the Republic of Singapore Air Force under the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) between 1986 and 2015, and held the appointments of Chief of Air Force between 2009 and 2013 and Chief of Defence Force between 2013 and 2015. He joined politics in 2015, and left the SAF in order to contest the general election that year. Ng was the MP representing the Punggol North division of Pasir Ris–Punggol Group Representation Constituency (GRC) between 2015 and 2020. During his first stint as an MP, he had also served as Minister for Education (Schools) between 2015 and 2018 and Minister in the Prime Minister's Office between 2018 and 2020. In the 2020 general el ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People's Action Party
The People's Action Party (PAP) is a major Conservatism, conservative political party in Singapore and is the governing contemporary political party represented in the Parliament of Singapore, followed by the opposition Workers' Party of Singapore, Workers' Party (WP). The PAP was established in 1954 as a conventional centre-left party. Following its initial electoral success in 1959 Singaporean general election, 1959, Prime Minister of Singapore, Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew sought to reposition the party ideologically toward the centrism, centre. In pursuit of this objective, he expelled the party's Barisan Sosialis, leftist faction in 1961, during the period of Singapore in Malaysia, Singapore's merger with Malaysia. Over the course of the 1960s and since then, the PAP continued its ideological shift towards the centre-right. After Independence of Singapore Agreement 1965, Singapore's separation from Malaysia and subsequent independence in 1965, the majority of opposition part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jalan Kayu SMC
The Jalan Kayu Single Member Constituency is a Single Member Constituency (SMC) for the Parliament of Singapore. It is managed by Jalan Kayu Town Council. Located in the North-East Region, it was established in 2025 after being split from Ang Mo Kio Group Representation Constituency (GRC) and was first contested at the general election that occurred in the same year. The current Member of Parliament (MP) is Ng Chee Meng from the People's Action Party (PAP). History Jalan Kayu SMC was established for the 2025 general election, in order to reduce the number of voters in Ang Mo Kio Group Representation Constituency (GRC), which had the most electors out of all GRCs. At establishment, Jalan Kayu SMC had 29,565 registered voters. The PAP announced that Ng Chee Meng would contest the newly established SMC. He had previously been a cabinet minister and MP for Pasir Ris–Punggol GRC but was defeated by the Workers' Party (WP) when running for Sengkang GRC in 2020. The WP announced ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
