Ong Pang Boon

Ong Pang Boon
王邦文
Minister for the Environment
In office
6 January 1981 – 1 January 1985
Prime MinisterLee Kuan Yew
Preceded byLim Kim San
Succeeded byAhmad Mattar
Minister for Labour
In office
5 July 1971 – 6 January 1981
Prime MinisterLee Kuan Yew
Preceded byS. Rajaratnam
Succeeded byOng Teng Cheong
Minister for Education
In office
18 October 1963 – 6 September 1970
Prime MinisterLee Kuan Yew
Preceded byYong Nyuk Lin
Succeeded byLim Kim San
Minister for Home Affairs
In office
11 August 1970 – 5 September 1970
Prime MinisterLee Kuan Yew
Preceded byLim Kim San
(as Minister for Interior and Defence)
Succeeded byWong Lin Ken
In office
5 June 1959 – 16 September 1963
Preceded byOffice established
Succeeded byGoh Keng Swee
(as Minister for Interior and Defence)
Member of the Malaysian Parliament
for Singapore
In office
2 November 1963 – 9 August 1965
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byPosition abolished
Member of the Singapore Parliament
for Telok Ayer
In office
30 May 1959 – 17 August 1988
Preceded byConstituency established
Succeeded byConstituency abolished
Personal details
Born (1929-03-28) 28 March 1929
CitizenshipSingaporean
PartyPeople's Action Party
SpouseChan Choy Siong
Alma materNational University of Singapore
OccupationPolitician
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Ong Pang Boon
Chinese王邦文
Hokkien POJÔng Pang-bûn
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinWáng Bāngwén
Southern Min
Hokkien POJÔng Pang-bûn

Ong Pang Boon DUNU (Chinese: 王邦文; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Ông Pang-bûn; pinyin: Wáng Bāngwén; born 28 March 1929) is a Singaporean retired politician who served as Minister for Home Affairs between 1959 and 1963 and again for a short period of time in 1970, Minister for Education between 1963 and 1970, Minister for Labour between 1971 and 1981, and Minister for the Environment between 1981 and 1985.