Yong Nyuk Lin
Singaporean politician
Died when: 94 years 5 days (1128 months)Star Sign: Cancer
.jpg?width=300)
Yong Nyuk Lin (Chinese: 杨玉麟; pinyin: Yáng Yùlín; 24 June 1918 – 29 June 2012) was a Singaporean politician who served as Minister for Communications between 1968 and 1975, Minister for Health between 1963 and 1968, and Minister for Education between 1959 and 1963.
A member of the governing People's Action Party (PAP), he was the Member of Parliament (MP) representing Geylang West SMC between 1959 and 1979.
Yong also served as Singapore's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom between 1975 and 1977.
Related People
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License