"Paralympian Yip Pin Xiu, Sakae Holdings chairman Douglas Foo among 9 new proposed NMPs
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:
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.
According to the press release by the Office of the Clerk of Parliament, a total of 48 proposals were received by closing time on Jul 6.
Speaker of Parliament and chairman of the committee Tan Chuan-Jin said in the release the committee is "confident that these passionate and committed individuals will ably represent the views within and across their communities, thus expanding and deepening perspectives shared at Parliamentary debates”.
Well, we hv a slate of 9 new NMPs. Picked from 48 applicants, higher than the last 2 rounds. A good sign people r still wanting to b a NMP.
My wishes for them, besides their own agenda r:
I. In their domain:
1. transportation system n costs;
2. medicines costs;
3. radicalisation of followers of certain religion n how to neutralise its spread;
II. Outside their domain:
1. Make "Returning your tray n clean up after yourself" a reality-social gracefulness!;
2. get details of how to handle NRIC% in budget to avoid 2% GST increase?;
3. root causes of increasing cost of living;
4. stance on relationship with Msia!
Will leave Any Other Business to you folks, if any.
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:
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.
According to the press release by the Office of the Clerk of Parliament, a total of 48 proposals were received by closing time on Jul 6.
Speaker of Parliament and chairman of the committee Tan Chuan-Jin said in the release the committee is "confident that these passionate and committed individuals will ably represent the views within and across their communities, thus expanding and deepening perspectives shared at Parliamentary debates”.
Well, we hv a slate of 9 new NMPs. Picked from 48 applicants, higher than the last 2 rounds. A good sign people r still wanting to b a NMP.
My wishes for them, besides their own agenda r:
I. In their domain:
1. transportation system n costs;
2. medicines costs;
3. radicalisation of followers of certain religion n how to neutralise its spread;
II. Outside their domain:
1. Make "Returning your tray n clean up after yourself" a reality-social gracefulness!;
2. get details of how to handle NRIC% in budget to avoid 2% GST increase?;
3. root causes of increasing cost of living;
4. stance on relationship with Msia!
Will leave Any Other Business to you folks, if any.
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