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on Monday from the People’s Action Party and Parliament over their affair.
Mr Seah Kian Peng entered politics under the People’s Action Party in 2006. With him are Ms Ellen Lee and Mr Hri Kumar. PHOTO: ST FILEMr Seah is currently chairman of the PAP’s Government Parliamentary Committee for Social and Family Development.WP and PAP: Counting the costs of scandalsOne of Mr Seah’s most well-known contributions to Parliament may be his work on the Maintenance of Parents Act.
According to the latest amendments to the Act, elderly parents who are seeking monetary support from their children will have toabandoning or neglecting their children in the past. He is still the group chief executive of NTUC Enterprise – a holding group of all National Trades Union Congress social enterprises.
“If you want to buy a little bit more, go ahead, but there’s no need to create a stockpile at home because if everyone is trying to do it on the same day and at the same time, it adds strain to the system,” said Mr Seah.Indranee to address Speaker Tan Chuan-Jin’s hot mic incident at next Parliament sittingApart from his more well-known role at NTUC, Mr Seah is also the founding chairman of the Harvard Business School Club of Singapore. He stepped down in 2018.
In September 2005, Mr Seah was elected as a member of the International Cooperative Alliance’s board of directors, making him the first Singaporean to be on this global board in the 112-year history of the alliance.He is the third of four children in his family, who lived in a three-room flat in Mattar Road, in MacPherson. His father was a line worker in a printing firm, while his mother was a housewife who took on sewing gigs to supplement the family income.
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