SINGAPORE — With a political career spanning 22 years, Senior Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam, 66, first started out as a student activist in the United Kingdom before entering politics, eventually rising to the highest rungs of leadership positions in the Government as well as in global organisations such as the Int
intention on Wednesday to run for the upcoming Presidential Election
In interviews with local media over the years, Mr Tharman had expressed a taking a keen interest in politics in his youth, as well as in sports, especially competitive ones like hockey. As a director at the MAS department, Mr Tharman was fined S$1,500 for breaching the Official Secrets Act, alongside then-editor of The Business Times , Mr Patrick Daniel, and BT journalist Kenneth James, after the newspaper published a report citing an official quarterly projection of Singapore’s economic growth before such data was officially released.
“No one concluded, including the court, that I had done anything deliberately. So my integrity was never challenged, never in doubt both during and after the case.” Since May 2019, Mr Tharman has also been Senior Minister, and is concurrently the Coordinating Minister for Social Policies. He is also chairman of the MAS, a position he has held since 2011.
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