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Mohamad Hamim Bin Aliyas
Mohamad Hamim bin Aliyas (born 1962 or 1963) is a Singaporean businessman and politician. He is the secretary-general of the Democratic Progressive Party and the treasurer of the People's Alliance for Reform. Political career In the 2006 general election, Hamim contested Pasir Ris-Punggol GRC as part of a 6 member SDA team. The team lost to the PAP, receiving 31.30% against the PAP's 68.70%. In the 2011 general election, Hamim joined the SPP's star team in Bishan-Toa Payoh GRC led by Chiam See Tong. However, the team was defeated by the PAP team led by Deputy Prime Minister Wong Kan Seng. The SPP team received 43.07% of the vote against the PAP's 56.93%. After the election, Hamim left the SPP and joined the Democratic Progressive Party as the party's chairman. In the 2015 general election, Hamim left the DPP to join a SPP team to contest Bishan-Toa Payoh GRC once again. The SPP team was defeated by the PAP 26.41% to 73.59%, and Hamim left the SPP to rejoin the DPP. On ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Democratic Progressive Party (Singapore)
The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) is a political party in Singapore. It was founded by former Workers' Party (WP) Assistant Secretary-General Seow Khee Leng in 1973. History and political development On 16 March 1973, Seow Khee Leng and other members of the WP broke away from the party and founded a new political party United Front (UF). On 5 March 1982, the party was renamed to Singapore United Front (SUF), to avoid confusion with the name of another party, United People's Front. During the campaigning in the 1984 general election, SUF chief Seow was sued by Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Kuan Yew and other members of People's Action Party for making defamatory remarks at two rally speeches that Lee and his cabinet were guilty of corruption. Seow was ordered to pay Lee and the PAP S$250,000 worth of damages and costs each. On 3 February 1989, Seow was declared bankrupt after being unable to keep up with the payments for the damages owned from two separate but similar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chiam See Tong
Chiam See Tong (; born 12 March 1935) is a Singaporean retired politician who served as the secretary-general of the opposition Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) from 1980 to 1993 and as the secretary-general of the opposition Singapore People's Party (SPP) from 2011 to 2019. He was also the chairman of the Singapore Democratic Alliance (SDA) between 2001 and 2011, and the ''de facto'' Leader of the Opposition (Singapore), Leader of the Opposition from 1986 to 1993 and again from 1997 to 2006. He was a Parliament of Singapore, Member of Parliament (MP) for Potong Pasir Single Member Constituency (SMC) from 1984 to 2011. Formerly a lawyer by profession, Chiam contested the 1976 Singaporean general election, 1976 general election and 1979 Singaporean by-elections, 1979 by-elections as an Independent politician, independent candidate in Cairnhill Single Member Constituency, Cairnhill SMC and Potong Pasir SMC but lost both. He founded and led the SDP to contest in the 1980 Singapor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
21st-century Singaporean Businesspeople
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2025 Singaporean General Election
General elections were held in Singapore on 3 May 2025 to elect all Member of parliament, members of the Parliament of Singapore across Constituencies of Singapore, 33 constituencies. It was the 19th general election in Singapore's history since 1948 Singaporean general election, 1948 and the first election under prime minister Lawrence Wong, who succeeded Lee Hsien Loong in May 2024 and as secretary-general of the People's Action Party (PAP) that December. News outlets had described this election as "a key test of public confidence" in Wong. The 14th Parliament of Singapore, 14th Parliament was dissolved on 15 April, with Nomination Day held on 23 April. A record 211 candidates contested the election, including 53 women, the highest number of female candidates in Singapore's history. PAP won Marine Parade–Braddell Heights GRC uncontested – the first walkover since 2011. However, the elections also saw five multi-cornered fights in Ang Mo Kio Group Representation Constituenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2020 Singaporean General Election
General elections were held in Singapore on Friday, 10 July 2020 to elect 93 members to the Parliament of Singapore across Constituencies of Singapore, 31 constituencies. Parliament was Dissolution of parliament, dissolved and the general election called by President of Singapore, President Halimah Yacob on 23 June, on the advice of Prime Minister of Singapore, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. It elected members of parliament to the 14th Parliament of Singapore since Singapore's independence in 1965, using the first-past-the-post electoral system. The elections were the eighteenth general elections in Singapore and the thirteenth since independence. On polling day, the ruling People's Action Party (PAP) secured its 15th consecutive term in government since 1959 Singaporean general election, 1959, winning 83 elected seats with the Workers' Party (Singapore), Workers' Party (WP) winning the remaining 10 (Aljunied GRC, Aljunied and Sengkang GRC, Sengkang GRCs and Hougang SMC) with 6 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Pwee
Benjamin Pwee Yek Kwan ( zh, s=方月光, p=Fāng Yuèguāng; born 1968) is a Singaporean politician, business development strategist and consultant. Formerly a government scholarship recipient and civil servant, Pwee is a member of the opposition Singapore Democratic Party (SDP). Education Pwee studied at Raffles Institution and Raffles Junior College. A recipient of the Singaporean government's Overseas Merit Scholarship, he completed a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts in music and literature at the University of Cambridge. He also holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of London and a Master of Public Administration from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore and a Master of Science in Southeast Asian Studies from the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Nanyang Technological University. He also studied strategic management at the Harvard Business School and completed a Masters in Christian S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2015 Singaporean General Election
General elections were held in Singapore on Friday, 11 September 2015 to elect 89 members of Parliament. The outgoing Parliament had been dissolved and the general election called by President Tony Tan on 25 August, on the advice of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. The elections were for the 13th Parliament since independence in 1965, using the first-past-the-post electoral system. The elections marked several first since independence: the first election where all seats were contested, including Tanjong Pagar being contested for the first time ever since the ward's formation in 1991. It was also the first election without any original Parliament MPs contesting following the death of the last active MP and the nation's first Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew in March 2015, coinciding in Singapore's 50th anniversary celebration on 9 August that year. This was the first election (of any kind) in Singapore's history where polling day falls on a Friday instead of the traditional Sat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wong Kan Seng
Wong Kan Seng ( zh, s=黄根成, j=Wong4 Gan1 Sing4, p=Huáng Gēnchéng; born 8 September 1946) is a Singaporean former politician who served as 5th Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore between 2005 and 2011 and currently is the chairman of United Overseas Bank, UOB Bank and CapitaLand, CapitaLand Group since 2017 and 2021 respectively. As a member of Singapore's governing People's Action Party (PAP), Wong served in the Cabinet of Singapore, Cabinet as Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports#Ministers, Minister for Community Development between 1987 and 1991, Leader of the House (Singapore), Leader of the House between 1987 and 2007, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Singapore)#Ministers, Minister for Foreign Affairs between 1988 and 1994, Ministry of Home Affairs (Singapore)#Ministers, Minister for Home Affairs between 1994 and 2010, Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore, Deputy Prime Minister between 2005 and 2011, and Coordinating Minister for National Security between 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Singapore
Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in Southeast Asia. The country's territory comprises one main island, 63 satellite islands and islets, and one outlying islet. It is about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, bordering the Strait of Malacca to the west, the Singapore Strait to the south along with the Riau Islands in Indonesia, the South China Sea to the east, and the Straits of Johor along with the State of Johor in Malaysia to the north. In its early history, Singapore was a maritime emporium known as '' Temasek''; subsequently, it was part of a major constituent part of several successive thalassocratic empires. Its contemporary era began in 1819, when Stamford Raffles established Singapore as an entrepôt trading post of the British Empire. In 1867, Singapore came under the direct control of Britain as part of the Straits Settlements. During World ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2011 Singaporean General Election
General elections were held in Singapore on 7 May 2011. President S. R. Nathan dissolved parliament on 19 April 2011 on the advice of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. Voting is mandatory in Singapore and is based on the first-past-the-post system. Elections are conducted by the Elections Department, which is under the jurisdiction of the Prime Minister's Office. Nomination day was held on 27 April 2011, and for the second election in a row, the PAP did not return to government on nomination day, but it did return to government on polling day. This election also marked the first and the only three-cornered fight since 2001 in Punggol East SMC. The elections were described as a "watershed" by various parties. The ruling PAP reminded voters that the election will determine "Singapore's next generation of leaders". The Workers' Party (WP) called it a "watershed election" both for Singapore and the opposition, as it marked the first time in two decades that the only two incumbent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pasir Ris-Punggol GRC
Pasil (, also Romanized as Pasīl; also known as Pasīr) is a village in Sepiddasht Rural District, Papi District, Khorramabad County, Lorestan Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the nort .... At the 2006 census, its population was 469, in 92 families. References Populated places in Khorramabad County {{Khorramabad-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
