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Opposition leader Goh Meng Seng has said that former Minister and MP for Aljunied, George Yeo, is key for the PAP to win back the Aljunied GRC from WP.

It was revealed recently on an radio interview that Mr Yeo and his wife, Jennifer, discussed marriage and decided on it. They then informed their respective parents and did it. Mr Yeo met his wife at a lecture in NUS law school when she was an undergraduate. The couple got married in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and celebration was four tables at a restaurant in Boston's Chinatown. On his lost in Aljunied GRC in GE 2011, Mr Yeo said that the loss was so painful that no matter how prepared he was, the impact of the loss was just too great.

When was the last time a SAF general turned PAP politicians fought in a Single Member Constituency? Has this happened before? I think not. From George Yeo, to Teo Chee Hean, to Lui Tuck Yew and the more recent entrants of Chan Chun Sing and Tan Chuan Jin, our SAF warriors have been parachuted straight into GRC and swiftly swept into parliament.

Former PAP minister of foreign affairs George Yeo said yesterday that Singaporeans are more vocal these days as compared to the 1990s because of social media and the government's more lenient stance towards dissent. The 60 year-old chairman of Kerry Logistics Network says that civic participation these days is "much healthier", but warned that the change brings about new tensions and also possibilities.

When asked on his observations on the "Singapore soul" and how state institutions can allow civil society to grow, ex-Foreign Minister George Yeo brought up the example of Amos Yee and commented that Amos Yee was obviously very bright.

The historical basis of the Silk Road was fair exchange and mutual benefit, and China’s intentions for its New Silk Road vision are no different, said Singapore’s former Foreign Minister George Yeo yesterday (June 3) at a public forum. China does not intend to subordinate the economic strategies of other countries to its own and is misunderstood by others, said Mr Yeo at the forum on Asia and the middle-income trap organised by the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.

I read about Mr George Yeo’s appointment as Chancellor of Nalanda University in India and I can’t help but feel a twinge of disappointment. I think George Yeo is an exceptional man. So Aljunied residents have got their opposition - and a financially-suspect town council. As for Parliament, we all have some kind of (limited) engagement in Parliament. Was this worth the price of a good man?

I told my wife that although New York and Washington DC were only a few hundred miles apart, the nature of my old and new postings was different. The UN posting was a multilateral posting and my mission was to represent Singapore in the Parliament of the world. My job was to befriend and earn the goodwill of as many delegations as possible.

THE People's Action Party (PAP) will introduce a new face soon to work the ground at opposition-held Aljunied GRC. Ms Chan Hui Yuh, 37, a director of construction company Infra Waterproofing, will be at the Serangoon ward, one of the five divisions in the group representation constituency. The former deputy organising secretary of the Young PAP's executive committee told The Straits Times yesterday that she would be vice-chairman of the Serangoon Citizens Consultative Committee (CCC) next week. But she will give her full attention to Serangoon only after her term as chairman of Siglap CCC in East Coast GRC ends in April next year, she said.