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The PAP has governed Singapore since its general election victory in 1959. Since the NTUC's inception, relations between the PAP and NTUC are very close, and have often resulted in members concurrently holding office in both organisations. The NTUC's founder, Devan Nair, was a PAP stalwart and later served as President of Singapore.
This is by far the most common category in Singapore, including PAP ("People's Action Party") and PIE ("Pan-Island Expressway"), which are pronounced / ˌ p iː ˌ eɪ ˈ p iː / and / ˌ p iː ˌ aɪ ˈ iː / respectively and never */ˈpæp/ and */ˈpaɪ/.
Lim himself had been preceded by Devan Nair, founder of the NTUC and a well-known democratic socialist member of the PAP's Old Guards, and Phey Yew Kok, [17] a powerful union leader who was instrumental in convincing Chinese unions to join the NTUC during the 1970s, but had been forced to resign in 1980 and fled the country in a corruption scandal.
Thanaletchimi is the current president of the Healthcare Services Employees Union (HSEU) after being elected to the position in 1998 and is also an elected member of the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) Central Committee. She is also the Chairperson for the NTUC Women's Committee, the Labour Movement's Healthcare Cluster and the NTUC ...
In July 2024, the NTUC Enterprise co-operative gave an irrevocable undertaking to sell a majority 51% stake of Income Insurance Ltd to German insurer Allianz. [13]NTUC Enterprise Chairman Lim Boon Heng stated that "is a capital-intensive business and to grow, there is a need to tap the capital markets" and that the sale was necessary because the "strength of Allianz’s financial position will ...
The weight loss drug Zepbound, generically known as tirzepatide, is also now an approved medication to treat obstructive sleep apnea, per a Food and Drug Administration Dec. 20 press release.. The ...
A former member of the governing People's Action Party (PAP), he was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ayer Rajah SMC between 1980 and 2006. Tan contested in the 2011 presidential election in a four-cornered fight where he was unsuccessful in his bid, losing with marginally 34.85% of the votes to Tony Tan .
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