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17th Cabinet of Singapore: 2020-2024: Date formed: 27 July 2020: Date dissolved: 15 May 2024: People and organisations; Head of state: Halimah Yacob (until 13 September 2023) Tharman Shanmugaratnam (14 September 2023 onwards) Head of government: Lee Hsien Loong: Deputy head of government: Heng Swee Keat (since 1 May 2019) Lawrence Wong (since ...
Up to the outbreak of World War II, Singapore was part of the Crown colony known as the Straits Settlements together with Malacca and Penang.The earliest predecessor of the Cabinet was arguably the Executive Council of the Straits Settlements that was introduced in 1877 by letters patent issued by the Crown, [5] though its function was very different from that of today's Cabinet.
The following day, while Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan held a meeting with Malaysian Foreign Minister Hishammudin Hussein at the Johor–Singapore Causeway, [255] he mentioned on a separate interview that the assembly of the upcoming cabinet was a "complete unity" that balanced the components of continuity, exposure and renewal, and ...
Singapore's incoming prime minister Lawrence Wong appointed a new deputy premier in a minor reshuffle of the cabinet on Monday, as he gears up to become the city-state's fourth leader since its ...
The membership was set by the 2020 Singapore General Election on 10 July 2020. The 14th Parliament is controlled by the People's Action Party majority, led by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and members of the cabinet , which assumed power on 25 July 2020; it was then later led by Prime Minister Lawrence Wong and its inaugural cabinet , who ...
William Farquhar, who served as the first resident of Singapore from 1819 to 1823. On 30 January 1819, Sir Stamford Raffles, an Englishman who was the Governor of Bencoolen (now Bengkulu, Indonesia), entered into a preliminary agreement with the Temenggung of Johor, Abdul Rahman Sri Maharajah, for the British East India Company to establish a "factory" or trading post on the island of Singapore.
Wong, the current finance minister, said he would announce a new cabinet line-up a few days before he is sworn in as Singapore's fourth prime minister, the Straits Times reported. Wong, 51, was ...
Race events were not held in 2020 and 2021 due to the pandemic. ... Iswaran was the first cabinet minister in Singapore to be charged for corruption in the country and the first to be investigated ...