Chen is a common Chinese surname and one of the most common surnames in Asia. It is the most common surname in Taiwan (2010) and Singapore (2000). Chen is also the most common family name in Guangdong, Zhejiang, Fujian, Macau, and Hong Kong. It is the most common surname in Xiamen, the ancestral hometown of many overseas Hoklo.
Chinese Singaporeans are Singaporeans of Chinese ancestry. Chinese Singaporeans constitute 75.9% of the Singaporean citizen population according to the official census, making them the largest ethnic group among them.
Ng is a Cantonese transliteration of the Chinese surnames 吳/吴 and 伍. Alternately, it is a common Hokkien transcription of the name 黃/黄.
Tony Tan Keng Yam is a Singaporean retired politician who served as the seventh president of Singapore between 2011 and 2017. Prior to his presidency, he was the country's deputy prime minister.
Suppiah Dhanabalan, also known as S. Dhanabalan, is a former Singaporean politician.
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Capital punishment is a legal penalty in Singapore. Executions are carried out by long drop hanging, and usually take place at dawn. 33 offences including murdering, drug trafficking, terrorism, use of firearms and kidnapping warrants the death penalty under Singapore law.
Temasek Polytechnic (TP) is a post-secondary education institution and statutory board under the purview of the Ministry of Education in Singapore.
Hri Kumar Nair is a Singaporean lawyer and former politician. He is the Deputy Attorney-General of the Republic of Singapore. From 2006 to 2015, he was a Member of Parliament and a member of the People's Action Party. Nair retired from politics after his wife’s diagnosis of lymphoma in 2012.
Jessica Tan Soon Neo is a Singaporean politician who has been serving as Deputy Speaker of Parliament since 2020. A member of the governing People's Action Party (PAP), she has been the Member of Parliament (MP) representing the Changi–Simei ward of East Coast GRC since 2006.
The Singaporean presidential election of 2011 was held to elect the next President of Singapore. Four eligible candidates were issued certificates of eligibility by Singapore's Presidential Elections Committee, and were nominated on Nomination Day with Tony Tan Keng Yam as the winning candidate due to a popular vote.
Adrian Tan Cheng Bock is a Singaporean politician and medical practitioner. He has been serving as chairman of the Progress Singapore Party (PSP) since 2021.
Tan Jee Say is a Singaporean investment adviser, politician, former civil servant and a member of the opposition Singapore Democratic Party (SDP).
The Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, established in 1905, is the first institution of higher learning in Singapore and the genesis of the National University of Singapore. The School is one of many who offer medical programmes in the Asia Pacific region. The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2019 by subject and Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings by Subject 2019 list NUS Medicine as the leading medical school in Asia. Its distinguished alumni include cabinet ministers of Singapore, well-known doctors and a Prime Minister of Malaysia.
Singaporeans First (SingFirst) was a political party in Singapore founded on 25 May 2014 but was dissolved on 25 June 2020.
The Progress Singapore Party is an opposition political party in Singapore and is one of the three contemporary political parties represented in parliament, alongside the ruling People's Action Party (PAP) and the opposition Workers' Party (WP).
Roland Tan Tong Meng, sometimes known by the nickname Mr. Big, was a Singaporean-born Denmark-based gangster and businessman. Initially attaining notoriety for his alleged involvement in a murder in October 1969, Tan fled to the Netherlands where he began his reign as a drug baron. He died of a heart attack in Copenhagen, after being at large for over 50 years.
On 15 September 2003, two Singaporean students and flatmates Tay Chow Lyang (郑潮亮) and Tony Tan Poh Chuan (陈宝川), were found brutally murdered in their flat in Sydney. The boys' fellow classmate and friend Ram Puneet Tiwary, also a Singaporean, was accused of these two violent murders. The case, dubbed the "Sydney double murders" in media, made headlines in both Singapore and Australia.
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