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THE grape-wines and gossip mills have been running overtime ever since George Yeo shared on Facebook on Friday that he’s coming home, having finally decided to put family first over career. The former Singapore Foreign Minister, going on 65, feels it’s ripe time to call it a day as the chairman and executive director of Kerry Logistics Network (KLN) in June in order to “spend time with family and pursue other interests”. Over seven years, he has been chairman of the Hong Kong company after a distinguished political career spanning 23 years, which ended on a downside note when his six-member team lost the Aljunied GRC in one of the biggest shocks of the 2011 General Elections (GE). They lost to the opposition Workers’ Party, led by the then-Secretary General Low Thia Khiang. In the Facebook note, Mr Yeo wrote: “I indicated to Mr William Ma (the company’s managing director) and Kerry Group of my wish to retire a year ago after my wife recovered from a serious illness. Reaching 65 this year, I want more time for my family and to pursue other interests.” His lawyer-wife Jennifer Yeo, 60, was diagnosed with a rare form of nose cancer two years ago. In February 2018, Mr Yeo said she had responded well to her treatment in the United States, adding that a full check-up showed “no trace anymore of her cancer”, though she will have to be “under close surveillance” in the first two years. News of him throwing the proverbial white career flag sparked heartland speculations over the weekend that Mr Yeo, who joined politics in 1988, when he represented the Aljunied GRC under the-then Kampong Kembangan division, may make a political comeback – either in the upcoming, yet-to-be-decided, GE 2019 or perhaps at a PE (Presidential Elections) in the near future.