Masagos promoted in Cabinet reshuffle , 4 ministers get new role.

[steffychun]

Lui Tuck Yew... so he's back to where he came from before joining the PAP.

I guess the PAP is running out of options with its game of ministerial portfolio musical chairs. :kma:

all PSC Scholars are PAP members.

 

[cocobobo]

Lui Tuck Yew... so he's back to where he came from before joining the PAP.

I guess the PAP is running out of options with its game of ministerial portfolio musical chairs. :kma:

the idea is to dip into labour pool of army mechanics to help maintain the trains

 

[steffychun]

Wow... and Lim Swee Say, once the leader of the so-called labour movement, is now the Manpower Minister.

You simply could not make this shit up.

now he has portfolio while Kee Chiu gets his air con office.

 

[shiokalingam]

Cabinet reshuffle: Biodata of ministers with new roles


SINGAPORE - Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on Wednesday announced a reshuffling of roles within the Cabinet as he renews his leadership bench ahead of the next general election.

Here's a look at the biodata of ministers affected by the reshuffle:



Mr Chan Chun Sing, 45

Mr Chan will be Singapore's new labour chief from May 4, taking over the role from Mr Lim Swee Say, who has resigned from the National Trade Unions Congress (NTUC).

He will relinquish his appointments as Minister for Social and Family Development and Second Minister for Defence from Thursday.

Mr Chan has been with the NTUC part-time since January, and full time since April, after Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong agreed to a request from the NTUC central committee for him to join the labour movement as part of its leadership succession process.

He joined politics in 2011, after 24 years in the Singapore Armed Forces, where he rose to become Chief of Army. He was elected an MP of Tanjong Pagar GRC in the May 2011 general election, and was immediately appointed Acting Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports, and concurrently, Minister of State for Information, Communications and the Arts.

Then aged 41, he was the youngest minister in the Cabinet.

In August 2012, he was appointed Senior Minister of State for Defence. In November, he became Acting Minister for Social and Family Development.

Then, in September 2013, he was promoted to full minister, making his rise among the swiftest in the group which entered politics in the 2011 election.

 

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Mr Tan Chuan-Jin, 46

Mr Tan, who is now Manpower Minister, will be appointed Minister for Social and Family Development on Thursday. He will hold both positions until he relinquishes his manpower portfolio on May 4.

Mr Tan, 46, joined politics in 2011 after 24 years in the Singapore Armed Forces. The former brigadier-general was elected an MP for Marine Parade GRC in the May 2011 general election, and was immediately appointed Minister of State for Manpower and National Development.

He is widely seen as part of the People's Action Party's fourth generation of leaders, all of whom entered politics in the 2011 general election. The others are Education Minister Heng Swee Keat, 54, Mr Chan Chun Sing, 45, and Mr Lawrence Wong, 42.

In August 2012, he was made Acting Manpower Minister and Senior Minister of State for National Development. He relinquished his National Development portfolio in September 2013.

He was promoted to Manpower Minister with effect from May last year.

During his stint at the Ministry of National Development, he was the Government's unofficial point person for engaging with non-governmental organisations - a role he continues to play even after leaving the ministry.

Mr Tan, who maintains an active presence on social media, takes a keen interest in environmental and heritage issues. When controversy broke over the redevelopment plans for the Bukit Brown cemetery, he was the key official reaching out to interest groups which were against the building of a road cutting through the cemetery.

He has also led public discussions on policies such as the Rail Corridor on disused railway land, and foreign maid matters.

 

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Mr Lim Swee Say, 60

Mr Lim entered politics and joined the labour movement in 1996 to help the rank and file workers upgrade and remain employable.

He served as deputy secretary-general of NTUC from 1997 to 1999 before he was appointed Minister of State for Communications and Information Technology and Minister of State for Trade and Industry in June 1999.

In October 2000, he was made Acting Minister for the Environment, and promoted to full minister a year later.

In August 2004, he became Minister in the Prime Minister's Office and Second Minister for National Development. He also served concurrently as deputy secretary-general for the labour movement.

Since October 2005, he has served full time in the labour movement. He became NTUC secretary-general in January 2007, taking over from Mr Lim Boon Heng who had served as labour chief for 13 years.

Mr Lim was elected an MP for East Coast GRC in the last election in 2011.

 

[shiokalingam]

Mr Masagos Zulkifli, 51

Mr Masagos will be promoted to a full minister from Thursday, making it the first time the Cabinet will have two full ministers from the Malay/Muslim community.

The other full minister from the community is Dr Yaacob Ibrahim, Minister for Communications and Information and Minister in charge of Muslim Affairs.

Mr Masagos will become Minister in the Prime Minister's Office as well as Second Minister for Home Affairs and Foreign Affairs.

Currently, he is Senior Minister of State for Home Affairs and Foreign Affairs - positions he has held since the Cabinet reshuffle in 2012.

Prior to that, he had served as Minister of State for Education, Home Affairs and Foreign Affairs.

Mr Masagos, who is trained as an electrical engineer, is an MP for Tampines GRC.

He was co-opted into the PAP central executive committee in January this year, and was appointed second organising secretary.

 

[XxooxX]

Lui tuck yew going to get axe soon.
Before or after election

 

[Narong Wongwan]

I thought are ministars are bright lights and thus deserving of the million-dollar salary.

Damn, they are useless idiots because they can't even manage a portfolio themselves. They need two or more ministars to man one ministry, plus minister of state. And for a country that is the size of peesai.

PAP is a party of mediocres.

They need to free up their time to spend their millions.
Why always reshuffle? Machiam playing musical chairs

 

[XxooxX]

A reshuffle means someone may be ask to retire early or
Someone vanish from parliment .

 

[Hans168]

What's going to happen to Iswaran? Now the Home Affairs Ministry has THREE ministers!

second him foc to Pundekland.............

 

[steffychun]

The British should sue the PAP for bastardising their parliamentary system.

Correct ranks

Minister

Minister of State

Parliamentary Undersecretary of State

Singapore bastardise to have Senior MOS, 2nd Minister, Senior Minister, Mentor don't know what...

 

[JohnTan]

While PAP is creating history and helping to better the lives of sinkies on a daily basis, people like chee and low continue to consume more resources and waste our government's precious time. They all will fade away and people won't even realize they were gone. You should join PAP, or at least join PA, to help improve the lives of your fellow sinkies and residents.

 

[steffychun]

While PAP is creating history and helping to better the lives of sinkies on a daily basis, people like chee and low continue to consume more resources and waste our government's precious time. They all will fade away and people won't even realize they were gone. You should join PAP, or at least join PA, to help improve the lives of your fellow sinkies and residents.

stick to topic. What has Chee and Low have to do with incompetent people here?

 

[winnipegjets]

While PAP is creating history and helping to better the lives of sinkies on a daily basis, people like chee and low continue to consume more resources and waste our government's precious time. They all will fade away and people won't even realize they were gone. You should join PAP, or at least join PA, to help improve the lives of your fellow sinkies and residents.

Better the lives of sinkees ...by importing 2.9 million foreigners that our infrastructure and economy cannot support? By displacing sinkees from good paying jobs with foreigners? By let foreigners take away spots in schools from our children? By spending $250 million yearly on scholarships for foreigners?

PA improves the lives of sinkees? How? By sending its staff to chiat hong trips? By building things that residents don't want?

 

[JOKERCHEW]

Wow... and Lim Swee Say, once the leader of the so-called labour movement, is now the Manpower Minister.

You simply could not make this shit up.

Betterer,
Bestest....

 

[kopirui]

A reshuffle means someone may be ask to retire early or
Someone vanish from parliment .

por lan par mentality like u want to talk politic ?
u can sing songs with my honey birds...jiu jiu jiu..

 

[winnipegjets]

While PAP is creating history and helping to better the lives of sinkies on a daily basis, people like chee and low continue to consume more resources and waste our government's precious time. They all will fade away and people won't even realize they were gone. You should join PAP, or at least join PA, to help improve the lives of your fellow sinkies and residents.

PAP is helping sinkees by
1. stealing their CPF money;
2. importing 2.9 foreigners to take away our livelihoods;
3. supporting foreign students to the tune of $250 million annually while giving pittance to sinkees;
4. letting foreigners take up spots in top schools, displacing sinkees;
5. .....

PAP's definition of helping sinkees is to screw us.

 

[shiokalingam]

The British should sue the PAP for bastardising their parliamentary system.

Correct ranks

Minister

Minister of State

Parliamentary Undersecretary of State

Singapore bastardise to have Senior MOS, 2nd Minister, Senior Minister, Mentor don't know what...

its was once said that Ministers are like Chairmen of Board .


SMS , MS , Snr PSec , are its Board of Directors .


PS the CEO

 

[XxooxX]

por lan par mentality like u want to talk politic ?
u can sing songs with my honey birds...jiu jiu jiu..

Your mother father must have die young