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Why is there a need for two Perm Secs in one ministry?

Papsmearer

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Generous Asset
The Perm Secs are our best talents and thus deserving, according to the PAP, to be the world's best paid civil servants. Yet you need two of them to helm a ministry?

Looks more like a job creation exercise to feed these scholars with more of our tax dollars!

why is there a need for so many Lieutenant Generals, Major Generals, Brigadier Generals, and Admirals in a country that has never gone to war?
 

palden

Alfrescian
Loyal
One perm and one sec.
Ng-Chua.jpg

Permanent Secretary Ng Chee Khern (left) and Deputy Secretary Albert Chua

The Government has appointed two senior officers to be Second Permanent Secretary to support the priorities of their ministries and drive major initiatives.

MG(NS) Ng Chee Khern, who is Permanent Secretary (Defence Development), Ministry of Defence, will be concurrently appointed as Second Permanent Secretary for Health. He was the Chief of the Republic of Singapore Air Force from 2006 to 2009.

Mr Albert Chua, Deputy Secretary (Asia-Pacific and International Organisations), Ministry of Foreign Affairs, will be appointed as Second Permanent Secretary for Foreign Affairs.

Mr Chua, 46, joined the Foreign Service Branch of the Administrative Service in 1992. He served in various appointments in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs efore his appointment as Principal Private Secretary to then Prime Minister Mr Goh Chok Tong (subsequently Senior Minister) from 2004 to 2007.

Mr Chua served as High Commissioner to Australia in 2008 and Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York in 2011. He has been Deputy Secretary (Asia-Pacific and International Organisations), MFA since 2013.

The appointments will take effect from August 1, said a government statement released today.
 

kaipoh

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Let Wang Yuk mung answer you, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS0TrMF-SDE&feature=em-subs_

Ng-Chua.jpg

Permanent Secretary Ng Chee Khern (left) and Deputy Secretary Albert Chua

The Government has appointed two senior officers to be Second Permanent Secretary to support the priorities of their ministries and drive major initiatives.

MG(NS) Ng Chee Khern, who is Permanent Secretary (Defence Development), Ministry of Defence, will be concurrently appointed as Second Permanent Secretary for Health. He was the Chief of the Republic of Singapore Air Force from 2006 to 2009.

Mr Albert Chua, Deputy Secretary (Asia-Pacific and International Organisations), Ministry of Foreign Affairs, will be appointed as Second Permanent Secretary for Foreign Affairs.

Mr Chua, 46, joined the Foreign Service Branch of the Administrative Service in 1992. He served in various appointments in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs efore his appointment as Principal Private Secretary to then Prime Minister Mr Goh Chok Tong (subsequently Senior Minister) from 2004 to 2007.

Mr Chua served as High Commissioner to Australia in 2008 and Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York in 2011. He has been Deputy Secretary (Asia-Pacific and International Organisations), MFA since 2013.

The appointments will take effect from August 1, said a government statement released today.
 

jw5

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Moderator
Loyal
Not only this ministry what....................

MTI also has 2 perm secs, their nicknames are "Mrs Desaru" and "Mr Rin TinTin". :biggrin:
 

SgGoneWrong

Alfrescian (Inf)
Asset
to make it more obvious to the dumb sillypootians they are not to be mess with,
the Party Against People should change the party symbol to the Skull and Crossbones.

No need skull, put LKY head and crossbones will scare the shit out of sinkies. Sinkies forever waiting for LKY to die for change to happen. They scared of him even when he's wheelchair bound, mouth cannot close and looks like living dead. By having a logo with his face, sinkies will always live in fear even after his death.
 

greedy and cunning

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Loyal
No need skull, put LKY head and crossbones will scare the shit out of sinkies. Sinkies forever waiting for LKY to die for change to happen. They scared of him even when he's wheelchair bound, mouth cannot close and looks like living dead. By having a logo with his face, sinkies will always live in fear even after his death.

stop frightening sillypootians , especially during the 7th lunar month.
wait we all got nightmare every night , how ?
 
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