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SINGAPORE - Mr Lawrence Wong takes over from Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat as Finance Minister. Having assisted Mr Heng as Second Minister for Finance since 2016, he has, as Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said, the experience and is a natural fit for the job.
Ms Indranee Rajah supports Mr Wong as Second Minister.
Mr Wong will continue to co-chair the Covid-19 multi-ministry task force together with new Health Minister Ong Ye Kung and Trade and Industry Minister Gan Kim Yong.
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Daewoo director, project manager plead guilty to bribing former LTA deputy group director
Ro Sungyoung (left) and Kim Young-gyu (right) walk out of the State Courts on Jul 24, 2020. (Photo: Jeremy Long)
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SINGAPORE: A director and a project manager at an engineering and construction firm pleaded guilty on Friday (May 7) to giving S$50,000 in bribes to a deputy group director with the Land Transport Authority (LTA) who oversaw a project they were hired for.
Kim Young-Gyu, a 52-year-old director of Daewoo Engineering and Construction, and Ro Sungyoung, a 49-year-old project manager of the same firm, pleaded guilty to a charge each of conspiring to bribe the LTA s Henry Foo Yung Thye with S$30,000. Each man will have a second charge involving another S$20,000 taken into considera