Ong Pang Boon | |
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王邦文 | |
Minister for the Environment | |
In office 6 January 1981 – 1 January 1985 | |
Prime Minister | Lee Kuan Yew |
Preceded by | Lim Kim San |
Succeeded by | Ahmad Mattar |
Minister for Labour | |
In office 5 July 1971 – 6 January 1981 | |
Prime Minister | Lee Kuan Yew |
Preceded by | S. Rajaratnam |
Succeeded by | Ong Teng Cheong |
Minister for Education | |
In office 18 October 1963 – 6 September 1970 | |
Prime Minister | Lee Kuan Yew |
Preceded by | Yong Nyuk Lin |
Succeeded by | Lim Kim San |
Minister for Home Affairs | |
In office 11 August 1970 – 5 September 1970 | |
Prime Minister | Lee Kuan Yew |
Preceded by | Lim Kim San (as Minister for Interior and Defence) |
Succeeded by | Wong Lin Ken |
In office 5 June 1959 – 16 September 1963 | |
Preceded by | Office established |
Succeeded by | Goh Keng Swee (as Minister for Interior and Defence) |
Member of the Malaysian Parliament for Singapore | |
In office 2 November 1963[1] – 9 August 1965 | |
Preceded by | Position established |
Succeeded by | Position abolished |
Member of the Singapore Parliament for Telok Ayer | |
In office 30 May 1959 – 17 August 1988 | |
Preceded by | Constituency established |
Succeeded by | Constituency abolished |
Personal details | |
Born | Kuala Lumpur, (then in Selangor, Federated Malay States), British Malaya (now Malaysia) | 28 March 1929
Citizenship | Singaporean |
Political party | People's Action Party |
Spouse | Chan Choy Siong[2] |
Alma mater | National University of Singapore |
Occupation | Politician |
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Chinese | 王邦文 | ||||||||||
Hokkien POJ | Ông Pang-bûn | ||||||||||
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Ong Pang Boon DUNU (Chinese: 王邦文; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Ông pang-bûn; pinyin: Wáng Bāngwén; born 28 March 1929) is a Singaporean retired politician who served as Minister for Home Affairs between 1959 and 1963 and again for a short period of time in 1970, Minister for Education between 1963 and 1970, Minister for Labour between 1971 and 1981, and Minister for the Environment between 1981 and 1985.