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Biography of Ong Teng CheongName: Ong Teng CheongBirth Date: January 22, 1936 Death Date: February 8, 2002 Place of Birth: Singapore Nationality: Singaporean Gender: Male Occupations: president Ong Teng Cheong Singapore's fifth president, Ong Teng Cheong (born 1936) took office in 1993. It was the climax of Ong's 21-year career as a member of Parliament (MP), cabinet minister, party chairman, and trade union chief.Ong Teng Cheong was born in Singapore on January 22, 1936. He was educated at the Chinese High School in Singapore and proceeded to the University of Adelaide in Australia, to study architecture. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in architecture in 1961 and worked as an architect in Adelaide for two years before returning to Singapore in 1964. While in Adelaide he married Ling Siew May, also an architect. Ong worked as an architect in the private sector for nearly two years after returning to Si ngapore. In September 1965 he left for the United Kingdom to pursue a post-graduate degree in town planning at the University of Liverpool on a Colombo Plan scholarship. He obtained his master's degree in civic design (…showed first 150 words…
…showed last 150 words…takes to shape the elected presidency in the nation's best interest." After having served as the first elected president of Singapore until 1999, Ong died of lymphoma, on February 8, 2002, at the age of 66. Further Reading Most of Ong Teng Cheong's speeches from 1978 onward have been published in Speeches, a publication of the information division of the Ministry of Communications and Information in Singapore. However, since December 1990 Speeches has been published by the Ministry of Information and the Arts. Ong's most famous speech, "Bridging the perception gap," which was given on July 26, 1992, in his capacity as PAP chairman, can be found in Petir (August 1992). For more information on Singapore see Stella R. Quah and Jon S.T. Quah, compilers, Singapore (1988), which contains 764 annotated references; and Kernial S. Sandhu and Paul Wheatley, edi tors, Management of Success: The Molding of Modern Singapore (1989), which has over 40 chapters on various aspects of life in Singapore. |