SINGAPORE: The Special Select Committee responsible for the appointment of Nominated Members of Parliament announced on Monday (Sep 17) its nine nominations to fill the vacancies in Parliament.
The nine people proposed to President Halimah Yacob are:
Mr Arasu Duraisamy
General secretary of the Singapore Port Workers Union (SPWU) and an elected member of the NTUC Central Committee.
Mr Foo Peow Yong Douglas
Executive chairman of Sakae Holdings and the president of the Singapore Manufacturing Federation.
Mr Ho Wee San
Managing director of the Singapore Chinese Orchestra (SCO).
Professor Lim Sun Sun
Head of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at the Singapore University of Technology and Design, and member of the Media Literacy Council.
Mr Abbas Ali Mohamed Irshad
Founder and director of Roses of Peace (ROP), a non-profit organisation with the aim of promoting inter-faith understanding and dialogue.
Ms Ong Lay Theng Anthea
Social entrepreneur and founder/CEO of Anagami, a corporate social responsibility consultancy.
Ms Quay Siew Ching Irene
Certified pharmacist and assistant director in the Allied Health Office at the KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital, as well as president of the Pharmaceutical Society of Singapore.
Associate Professor Walter Edgar Theseira
Transport economist at the Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS) and a member of the Ministry of Social and Family Development's research advisory panel.
Ms Yip Pin Xiu
Paralympian swimmer who won Singapore's first gold medal in the 50m backstroke at the 2008 Beijing Paralympic Games in a world record time, before bettering the feat at the 2016 Rio Paralympic Games.
Mr Arasu said he was "apprehensive" when first approached by a few union leaders to consider the post, according to an article on the NTUC website.
"But they worked their magic on me. My main aim as a unionist is to better the lives of our workers and members and so if there is another platform for me to air the members’ views, why not. So, I said I will take up the challenge,” he was cited as saying.
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