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
(1929-03-28) 28 March 1929 (age 95) 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
Ong Pang Boon
Chinese
王邦文
Hokkien POJ
Ông Pang-bûn
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Wáng Bāngwén
Southern Min
Hokkien POJ
Ông Pang-bûn
In this Chinese name, the family name is Ong.
Ong Pang BoonDUNU (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.
^"PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES DEWAN RA'AYAT (HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES) OFFICIAL REPORT" (PDF). Dewan Rakyat. Retrieved 19 August 2019.
^Koh, Jaime. "Ong Pang Boon". Singapore Infopedia. National Library Board. Retrieved 20 April 2015.
OngPangBoon DUNU (Chinese: 王邦文; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Ôngpang-bûn; pinyin: Wáng Bāngwén; born 28 March 1929) is a Singaporean retired politician who served as...
Ong Teng Cheong GCMG (Chinese: 王鼎昌; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Ông Téng-chhiong; 22 January 1936 – 8 February 2002) was a Singaporean politician, architect and union...
and pinball machines, while the police under Home Affairs Minister OngPangBoon raided pubs and pornography publications. The government cracked down...
Swee, OngPangBoon, S. Rajaratnam, Yong Nyuk Lin, Jek Yeun Thong, Lim Kim San, Othman Wok and assembly members Abdul Rahim Ishak, Wee Toon Boon and Ho...
capabilities and a new press centre. Lim married Pang Gek Kim in 1939 and they had five children. Pang died in 1994. One of his nephews is Luke O’Nien...
formed Teck Ghee constituency, while PAP stalwarts Dr Goh Keng Swee and OngPangBoon stepped down. In the only election among several preceding and succeeding...
were announced on 1 November 1981 by then Minister for the Environment OngPangBoon. The expansion had been partially completed by January 1983, with 704...
August 2020. "Singapore Food Agency". mse.gov.sg. Retrieved 18 August 2020. Ong, Justin (28 September 2015). "Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announces Singapore's...
Force (SCDF), Peter Lim Sin Pang, was arrested on 19 December 2011, while Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) chief, Ng Boon Gay, was taken in for questioning...
George Yeo Yong-Boon Hong Hai John Chen Seow Phun K Shanmugam Lew Syn Pau Loh Meng See Low Seow Chay Low Thia Khiang Mah Bow Tan Ong Chit Chung Peh Chin...
"cultivate the human resource" as espoused by then Minister for Education OngPangBoon, although nation-building agendas were not too distant. The SYF Art...
Minister and former prime minister Goh Chok Tong Former Cabinet Minister OngPangBoon Former Cabinet Minister S. Dhanabalan Former Senior Minister of State...
of Malaysian Chinese descent. OngPangBoon, retired Singaporean politician, of Malaysian Chinese descent. Adrian Pang, Singaporean actor, of Malaysian...
The Straits Times. Singapore. 5 June 1959. Retrieved 19 December 2012. "Ong's expulsion". The Straits Times. Singapore. 22 June 1960. Retrieved 3 June...
Pock Too Ong Chit Chung Ong Eng Guan OngPangBoonOng Ye Kung Ooi Boon Ewe Patrick Tay Peh Chin Hua Penny Low Png Eng Huat Poh Li San Rachel Ong Raymond...
same year. Chan retired from politics in 1970. Chan was the wife of OngPangBoon, a prominent first-generation member of the People's Action Party (PAP)...
after National Junior College. In 1970, the then Minister for Education OngPangBoon approached a group of Chinese community leaders from the Singapore Chinese...
conferred city status by a royal charter from King George VI. In 1958, OngPangBoon, the Deputy Mayor of the City Council of Singapore, approached Zubir...
GENERAL ELECTION 1963". Singapore Elections. Retrieved 17 July 2020. "Mr. ONG QUITS THE ASSEMBLY". The Straits Times. 17 June 1965. Retrieved 18 July 2020...
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