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[81] [82] One of three children, Tharman is the son of Emeritus Professor K. Shanmugaratnam, [82] a medical scientist known as the "father of pathology in Singapore", who founded the Singapore Cancer Registry and led a number of international organisations related to cancer research and pathology. [83] [84] [85]
Born in Singapore in 1921, Shanmugaratnam was one of five children, and was of Ceylonese Tamil Hindu descent. [3] His father was a teacher. After his completing secondary school education at Victoria School, Shanmugaratnam enrolled into the King Edward VII College of Medicine in 1937, but his education was disrupted by World War II and the Japanese occupation. [4]
Megan Khung Yu Wai, the first and only child of her parents Simon Khung (Chinese: 江伟南; pinyin: Jiāng Wěinán) and Foo Li Ping, was born in Singapore on 4 October 2015. Khung's father, who had an older brother, had gone to prison thrice from 2015 to 2019 for drug consumption.
The forum sought to promote an independent Malaya which included Singapore and met at 44 Bryanston Square in London. [ 77 ] [ 78 ] Lee and his contemporaries deliberately avoided the topic of forming a political party to avoid charges of subversion , beginning work on forming a political party only after returning to Singapore.
Lots of parents have rules about when their kids can start dating and how those same kids are allowed to use or not use social media. And of course, kids do anything in their power to break those ...
Vivian Balakrishnan was born in 1961 in Singapore to an Indian Tamil father and a Chinese mother with ancestry from Fuqing, Fujian. [ 4 ] He was educated at Anglo-Chinese School and National Junior College before he was conferred the President's Scholarship in 1980 to study medicine at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at the National ...
Singapore nationality law details the conditions by which a person holds Singapore nationality. The primary law governing nationality requirements is the Constitution of Singapore, which came into force on 9 August 1965. Individuals born to at least one Singapore citizen parent can apply for citizenship at birth, regardless of where the birth ...
Bilahari Kim Hee Papanasam Setlur Kausikan [1] (Tamil: பிலஹரி பாபநாசம் செட்லூர் கௌசிகன், Chinese: 米金喜; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Bí Kim-hí; born 1954) is a Singaporean retired academic, diplomat and civil servant who served as Singapore's Permanent Representative to the United Nations between 1995 and 1998.