SINGAPORE – Former transport minister Lui Tuck Yew has been appointed Singapore’s ambassador to the United States, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) announced on Tuesday. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SINGAPORE – Former transport minister Lui Tuck Yew has been appointed Singapore’s ambassador to the United States, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Tuesday.
He takes over the post in the US from Mr Ashok Kumar Mirpuri, who has been Singapore’s ambassador to the US since July 2012.The Government also appointed two other new ambassadors – Mr Ong Eng Chuan to Japan and Ms Constance See Sin Yuan to the Philippines. Their new appointments will also begin in June 2023.
He was minister for information, communications and the arts from 2009 to 2011, and transport minister from 2011 to 2015.Mr Ong, 55, joined MFA in 1994 and was deputy secretary of the ministry from May 2016 to May 2023.
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