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 | 28 March 1929 Kuala Lumpur, (then in Selangor, Federated Malay States), British Malaya (now Malaysia) |
| 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.