Goh Chok Tong is the Senior Minister

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 of Singapore

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 and the chairman of the central bank of Singapore, the Monetary Authority of Singapore

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. He also served as the second Prime Minister

Prime Minister of Singapore

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 of the Republic of Singapore from 28 November 1990 to 12 August 2004, succeeding Lee Kuan Yew

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, the former Prime Minister

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 of the Republic of Singapore.
Goh Chok Tong's father was from Yongchun

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 county of Fujian

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 province in China

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, while he was born in Singapore and his family belongs to the Hokkien

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 dialect group, now more commonly known as Minnan.