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Ministries are led by a member of the Cabinet and deal with state matters that require direct political oversight. 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.
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.
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Minister Jek Yeun Thong: 26 September 1977 6 January 1981 Minister Lim Chee Onn 15 September 1980 6 January 1981 Minister for Defence: Goh Keng Swee: 31 December 1976 11 February 1979 Howe Yoon Chong: 12 February 1979 6 January 1981 Minister for Health: Toh Chin Chye: 31 December 1976 6 January 1981 Minister for Foreign Affairs: S. Rajaratnam ...
In October 2003, then acting Minister for Health Khaw Boon Wan launched "SingaporeMedicine" to promote Singapore as a regional medical hub. He said more than 200,000 foreigners visited Singapore for its medical services in 2002 and that the Economic Review Committee reaffirmed its ambition of serving 1 million foreign patients annually by 2012 ...
Before becoming Minister for Health, he was Minister for Education between 2015 and 2020, serving alongside Ng Chee Meng between 2015 and 2018, and Minister for Transport between 2020 and 2021. From 2020 to 2021, he is also a co-chair of the Multi-Ministry Taskforce set up by the government to manage Singapore's handling response to the COVID ...
Senior Minister of State for Transport and Sustainability and the Environment: Amy Khor 许连碹: 27 July 2020 Senior Minister of State for Manpower and Sustainability and the Environment: Koh Poh Koon 许宝琨: 15 May 2021 and 13 June 2022 Senior Minister of State for Health and Communications and Information: Janil Puthucheary
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.