Does anyone know anything about this guy?
Ex-Rhodes Scholar is potential WP candidate
THE Workers' Party (WP) may be fielding a Taiwan-born, Western-educated and China-based lawyerin the next general election (GE).
Sources say that Mr Chen Show Mao, 50, a partner in international law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell's Beijing office, may be a WP candidate in one of the four group representation constituencies (GRCs) that the WP is eyeing.
These are Aljunied, East Coast, Moulmein-Kallang and Nee Soon GRCs.
Mr Chen is said to have been a speaker at a closed-door forum for WP members in January, an event billed as a showcase for its new GE candidates.
Mr Chen has yet to respond to queries from The Straits Times.
His profile page on the law firm's website indicates that he has been overseas for at least 17 years. He was based in the law firm's Hong Kong office from 1994 to 2007 before he moved to China.
According to past press reports, Mr Chen was born in Taiwan and moved to Singapore with his family when he was 11 years old. He was the top student from National Junior College in the 1979 A-level examinations.
His application to study medicine at the National University of Singapore was rejected, so his parents sent him to Harvard University in the United States, where he decided to study economics instead of medicine.
He became a Singapore citizen in 1986, and the same year, won a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University in Britain, where he studied history and modern languages.
In 1992, he received a doctorate in law from Stanford University in the US.
Ex-Rhodes Scholar is potential WP candidate
THE Workers' Party (WP) may be fielding a Taiwan-born, Western-educated and China-based lawyerin the next general election (GE).
Sources say that Mr Chen Show Mao, 50, a partner in international law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell's Beijing office, may be a WP candidate in one of the four group representation constituencies (GRCs) that the WP is eyeing.
These are Aljunied, East Coast, Moulmein-Kallang and Nee Soon GRCs.
Mr Chen is said to have been a speaker at a closed-door forum for WP members in January, an event billed as a showcase for its new GE candidates.
Mr Chen has yet to respond to queries from The Straits Times.
His profile page on the law firm's website indicates that he has been overseas for at least 17 years. He was based in the law firm's Hong Kong office from 1994 to 2007 before he moved to China.
According to past press reports, Mr Chen was born in Taiwan and moved to Singapore with his family when he was 11 years old. He was the top student from National Junior College in the 1979 A-level examinations.
His application to study medicine at the National University of Singapore was rejected, so his parents sent him to Harvard University in the United States, where he decided to study economics instead of medicine.
He became a Singapore citizen in 1986, and the same year, won a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University in Britain, where he studied history and modern languages.
In 1992, he received a doctorate in law from Stanford University in the US.
