Lui Tuck Yew

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Lui Tuck Yew (simplified Chinese: 吕德耀; traditional Chinese: 呂德耀; pinyin: Lǚ Déyào; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Lū Tek-iāu) (born 16 August 1961) is a politician from Singapore. A member of the governing People's Action Party (PAP), he is currently the country's Transport Minister and Second Minister for Foreign Affairs. He previously served as the Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts from 2010 to 2011. He has been a Member of Parliament (MP) since 2006. Lui was formerly an officer in the Republic of Singapore Navy, where he rose to the rank of Rear Admiral, and served as Singapore's Chief of Navy from 1999 to 2003.

Career

Lui began his career in the Republic of Singapore Navy. He became the Chief of Navy in 1999. He left the Navy in 2003, and was appointed the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Maritime and Port Authority (MPA). In 2004, he became the Deputy Secretary (Land) at the Ministry of Transport (he continued to concurrently serve as CEO of the MPA while holding this position). In 2005, Lui was appointed the CEO of the Housing and Development Board (HDB).

Political career

At the 2006 general election, Lui was elected to Parliament as a member of the PAP's team in the Tanjong Pagar Group Representation Constituency (GRC). He was re-elected to Parliament at the 2011 general election, this time in Moulmein-Kallang GRC.

Lui was appointed a Minister of State at the Ministry of Education in 2006. In 2008, he became the Senior Minister of State at the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts. He was made the Acting Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts in 2009, and became a full member of the Cabinet in 2009.

After the 2011 general election, Lui was appointed the Minister for Transport and Second Minister for Foreign Affairs.^[1]

2011 general election

In the 2011 general election, Lui was a PAP candidate in the newly-created Moulmein-Kallang GRC, which included his Moulmein ward (which had previously been part of Tanjong Pagar GRC). The PAP's team defeated the team from the Workers' Party by 44,828 votes (58.56%) to 31,721 (41.44%).

Education

Lui was educated at Anglo-Chinese School and Anglo-Chinese Junior College, before receiving a Singapore Armed Forces Overseas Scholarship to study at Cambridge University, where he read Chemistry at Trinity College and graduated in 1983. In 1994, he completed a Master of Arts degree in International Relations at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in the United States.

Personal Life

Lui is married to Soo Fen. They have two daughters.

Quotations

• "Sadly, the Internet community here squandered an opportunity to show that it was capable of a higher degree of self-regulation", referring to online postings that suggest that Member of Parliament Seng Han Thong deserved to be assaulted, The Straits Times, 'Online attacks: Minister rues lack of self-policing', 2/5/2009.

References

External links

• Profile at Cabinet of Singapore website
• Profile at Parliament of Singapore website
• Profile at Moulmein Constituency website

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