Dr Yeo Ning Hong is a former People's Action Party

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 politician from Singapore

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, who served as a Cabinet Minister

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 and Member of Parliament

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 in the 1980s and 1990s. His ministerial appointments included Minister for Defence and Minister for Communications and Information

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.

A chemist

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 by training, Yeo is an alumnus of the University of Singapore (now the National University of Singapore

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). He later graduated with a PhD

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 from Cambridge University

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. He was also a Fellow

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 of Christ's College, Cambridge

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, from 1970-73.

Since leaving politics, Yeo has served as Executive Chairman of the Singapore Technologies Group, and Chairman of the Port of Singapore Authority. He has also published several books under the pen name

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"Adrian Yeo".