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Feb 21, 2024 · Presidential clemency was granted to Mr Mathavakannan s/o Kalimuthu in 1998 by the late President Ong Teng Cheong. Mr Kalimuthu had been sentenced to death on 27 November 1996 for committing murder, along with 2 others.
Jun 9, 2023 · Ong Teng Cheong: “I had a job to do” Mr Ong served as Singapore’s president from 1993 to 1999, having held various ministerial portfolios in the PAP government and the position of secretary-general of the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) prior to that.
- Terry Xu
Ong Teng Cheong GCMG (22 January 1936 – 8 February 2002) was a Singaporean statesman, architect and union leader who served as the fifth president of Singapore from 1993 to 1999. He was the first president to be directly elected in a popular vote in Singapore's history after winning the 1993 presidential election .
Feb 8, 2002 · He was sworn in as president on 1 September 1993. An architect by training, Ong served as a People’s Action Party (PAP) member of parliament (MP) for over two decades, and held at various times the communications, culture and labour portfolios.
Man pardoned by former President Ong Teng Cheong to be released from jail after spending 20 years behind bars.
As the fifth president of the Republic of Singapore, Ong Teng Cheong was our first head of state to be popularly elected through the people's vote in the 1993 presidential election.
Nov 20, 2016 · Eventually the management of Hydril gave in, reinstating one worker and compensating the other five over unfair dismissal. In 1993, Ong Teng Cheong, after resigning from his positions in NTUC, Cabinet and PAP, contested in Singapore’s first ever presidential election.
