PAP beats NSP 'A' team in Chua Chu Kang
Manpower Minister Gan Kim Yong (centre) and his five-member team were voted in by residents of Chua Chu Kang on Saturday, by a winning margin of 22.4 per cent.
It won easily with 89,605 votes, or 61.2 per cent of the 158,648 votes. -- ST PHOTO: WONG KWAI CHOW
WP A Team: 54.72%
WP B Team: 45.17%
NSP so-called rookie Team: 43.36%
SPP Scholar Team: 43.07%
WP B so-called 3rd rate Team: 41.45%
SDP A Team: 39.92%
NSP A Team: 38.80%
The CCK team was not particular stong, Most of the problems of housing and transport can be traced to lax Manpower policies, this provide ample ammunition for GMS minister specific strategy.
Long Time anchor Minister Yeo Cheow Tong was unpopular over past transport polices and step down shortly after GE2006, Hong Kah GRC was without a minister for 5 years, popular Mayor Amy Khor was also withdraw from the new CCK GRC. Yew Tee residents also have to endure a ORD mood MP for 5 years.
The noobs brought in was also not ministerial material, other than Gan, none of them have any electoral experience.
The PAP appears to be taking a genuine gamble in fielding such a raw team in Chua Chu Kang.
Candidate 1: Alvin Yeo Khirn Hai, Senior Counsel
Yeo is a stellar solicitor to say the least. Managing Partner of a top local law firm, he was the youngest lawyer to be appointed Senior Counsel in 2000. He must have heaved a sigh of relief on nomination day in the 2006 general election when the PAP team in the now-defunct Hong Kah GRC was given a walkover. After all, even without the burden of being a MP he holds a heavy load of responsibilities in the legal and corporate world. Wonder if he squeezes time for the unemployed middle-age Singaporean if he has a queue of MNC CEOs and foreign millionaires waiting outside his office door?
Candidate 2: Zaqy Mohamad
A rare PAP candidate from the private sector. Zaqy got into the Parliament in 2006 via a walkover in the now-defunct Hong Kah GRC. The YoungPAP website claims Zaqy has “a strong interest in youth development, concerns of the working class, and Professionals, Managers, Executives and Technicians (PMETs) as well as Singapore’s economic agenda.” Has resolving the employment woes of middle-aged PMETs been on his actual “to-do” list?
Candidate 3: Low Yen Ling
A graduate of Nanyang Technological University, Yen Ling holds a Bachelor of Business Studies Second Upper Honours degree majoring in Financial Analysis.
As a fresh graduate, she joined the financial industry, handling commercial lending accounts for United Overseas Bank and Keppel Tat-Lee Bank. She then joined a start-up company as a Business Development Manager. Heard the start-up failed. She joined EDB as a Senior Officer in 2001.
She said in March she has been volunteering in grassroots activities in Yew Tee for a month.
Candidate 4: Alex Yam Ziming
The choice of Yam as a candidate is a mystery. The 30-year-old was initially characterised by the mainstream media as a “unionist” and “Principal Executive” at NTUC. The PAP later officially introduced him as “Head (Strategies & Planning/Youth Lab) of Young NTUC”, and he supposedly oversees the development of young activists and helps chart the engagement with young workers. Yet searches on the internet reveal that he has been no more than someone from NTUC’s Youth Development Unit / Young NTUC Secretariat, and the contact person (not even the team manager) of Young NTUC’s “P-L-A-Y” department, which organises activities for volunteers such as performing at the NDP etc. The startling lack of quality notwithstanding, Yam was appointed in June 2010 unto the Board of Chinese Development Assistance Council (CDAC).
I said weak result is due to GMS abandoning the minister strategy and start chasing Nicole ass around MP..
steve chia should also have stayed in CCK
Manpower Minister Gan Kim Yong (centre) and his five-member team were voted in by residents of Chua Chu Kang on Saturday, by a winning margin of 22.4 per cent.
It won easily with 89,605 votes, or 61.2 per cent of the 158,648 votes. -- ST PHOTO: WONG KWAI CHOW
WP A Team: 54.72%
WP B Team: 45.17%
NSP so-called rookie Team: 43.36%
SPP Scholar Team: 43.07%
WP B so-called 3rd rate Team: 41.45%
SDP A Team: 39.92%
NSP A Team: 38.80%
The CCK team was not particular stong, Most of the problems of housing and transport can be traced to lax Manpower policies, this provide ample ammunition for GMS minister specific strategy.
Long Time anchor Minister Yeo Cheow Tong was unpopular over past transport polices and step down shortly after GE2006, Hong Kah GRC was without a minister for 5 years, popular Mayor Amy Khor was also withdraw from the new CCK GRC. Yew Tee residents also have to endure a ORD mood MP for 5 years.
The noobs brought in was also not ministerial material, other than Gan, none of them have any electoral experience.
The PAP appears to be taking a genuine gamble in fielding such a raw team in Chua Chu Kang.
Candidate 1: Alvin Yeo Khirn Hai, Senior Counsel
Yeo is a stellar solicitor to say the least. Managing Partner of a top local law firm, he was the youngest lawyer to be appointed Senior Counsel in 2000. He must have heaved a sigh of relief on nomination day in the 2006 general election when the PAP team in the now-defunct Hong Kah GRC was given a walkover. After all, even without the burden of being a MP he holds a heavy load of responsibilities in the legal and corporate world. Wonder if he squeezes time for the unemployed middle-age Singaporean if he has a queue of MNC CEOs and foreign millionaires waiting outside his office door?
Candidate 2: Zaqy Mohamad
A rare PAP candidate from the private sector. Zaqy got into the Parliament in 2006 via a walkover in the now-defunct Hong Kah GRC. The YoungPAP website claims Zaqy has “a strong interest in youth development, concerns of the working class, and Professionals, Managers, Executives and Technicians (PMETs) as well as Singapore’s economic agenda.” Has resolving the employment woes of middle-aged PMETs been on his actual “to-do” list?
Candidate 3: Low Yen Ling
A graduate of Nanyang Technological University, Yen Ling holds a Bachelor of Business Studies Second Upper Honours degree majoring in Financial Analysis.
As a fresh graduate, she joined the financial industry, handling commercial lending accounts for United Overseas Bank and Keppel Tat-Lee Bank. She then joined a start-up company as a Business Development Manager. Heard the start-up failed. She joined EDB as a Senior Officer in 2001.
She said in March she has been volunteering in grassroots activities in Yew Tee for a month.
Candidate 4: Alex Yam Ziming
The choice of Yam as a candidate is a mystery. The 30-year-old was initially characterised by the mainstream media as a “unionist” and “Principal Executive” at NTUC. The PAP later officially introduced him as “Head (Strategies & Planning/Youth Lab) of Young NTUC”, and he supposedly oversees the development of young activists and helps chart the engagement with young workers. Yet searches on the internet reveal that he has been no more than someone from NTUC’s Youth Development Unit / Young NTUC Secretariat, and the contact person (not even the team manager) of Young NTUC’s “P-L-A-Y” department, which organises activities for volunteers such as performing at the NDP etc. The startling lack of quality notwithstanding, Yam was appointed in June 2010 unto the Board of Chinese Development Assistance Council (CDAC).
I said weak result is due to GMS abandoning the minister strategy and start chasing Nicole ass around MP..
steve chia should also have stayed in CCK
