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The member of the Cabinet heading the ministry is known as the minister, who is supported by a junior minister known as minister of state in Singapore. The administrative management of the ministry is led by a senior civil servant known as permanent secretary.
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.
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The Fifth Cabinet of Lee Hsien Loong of the Government of Singapore was announced on 25 July 2020 [1] following the 2020 general election on 10 July, and came into effect on 27 July 2020. Changes [ edit ]
Singapore inherited a Westminster system of government from the British.In such systems, there is an overlap between the executive and legislative branches of government. The head of state, who is the president of Singapore, is a member of both the executive Government of Singapore and the Parliament of Singapore but plays a minimal role in them.
[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]
Gan Siow Huang PPA(P) (Chinese: 颜晓芳; pinyin: Yán Xiǎofāng; born 28 September 1974) [1] [2] is a Singaporean politician and former brigadier-general who has been serving as Minister of State for Education and Minister of State for Manpower concurrently since 2020.
The Coordinating Minister for Economic Policies is an appointment in the Cabinet of Singapore, initially introduced in 2015 to cover both economic and social policies. [1] However, the social policy portfolio was dropped when the role was redesignated in 2019.