Dr Toh Chin Chye Has Passed Away.

[Talking Donkey]

One of Singapore founding fathers has just passed away.
RIP Dr Toh Chin Chye.

 

[mollusk]

One by one up the lorry liao

 

[Narong Wongwan]

RIP

Sinkies owe him a debt for his selfless contributions.....just like GKS

His dissent in later years caused a bit of discomfort.....

 

[ZorrorroZ]

will there be state funeral like for rajarethnam?

 

[Narong Wongwan]

As Toh Chin Chye saw the problem clearly:

In a rare public interview in 1997 Radio Corporation of Singapore, Dr Toh passionately bemoaned the lack of idealism and creativity among the young and its implications for the future of Singapore. He said:


“I would say the generation of the ‘50s and ‘60s took the plunge into politics without ever calculating the costs of the risk and the benefits to be gained. They were driven by ideology.

Today’s generation has no culture and averse to taking political risk.

Really, an interest in politics is very necessary for the future.

But I cannot blame the present generations, because they see the heavy-handed response by the government to dissenting views, even though they know that these matters involve their daily lives.

So the result is that we have produced a younger generation who are meek and therefore very calculating.

They are less independent-thinking and lack in initiative.

It does not bode well for the emergence of future leaders in politics and business. Robots and computers can be programmed or if you like, can be trained.

But the trouble, of course, is that computers lack soul and what we need in Singapore is soul. Because it is soul that makes society.”

 

[zeddy]

RIP Dr Toh


A good man who sacrificed alot for Spore.. One by one they leave this world.. Raja, GKS, and now Dr Toh.. Time now is ticking fast for the Old Fart of Oxley Rise..

 

[RonRon]

RIP the co-founder of the PAP

Former deputy prime minister Toh Chin Chye died on Friday morning at his home at the age of 90.

A prominent member of Singapore's first generation of leaders, Dr Toh co-founded the People's Action Party in 1954 and was its first chairman. He has also served in the Cabinet as Minister for Science and Technology and Minister for Health.

He retired from the Cabinet in 1981 to become a backbencher, before retiring from politics in 1988.

He is survived by a daughter.

 

[RonRon]

PAP founding member Toh Chin Chye dies

SINGAPORE: One of the founding members of the People's Action Party, Dr Toh Chin Chye has died.

Together with Old Guard Leaders Lee Kuan Yew, S Rajaratnam and Goh Keng Swee, Dr Toh had helped lay the foundation for future generations of Singaporeans.

The son of a bicycle shop owner, Dr Toh was born in Malaysia in 1921.

The brilliant student, he won scholarships to study at Raffles College in Singapore, and then in London for a doctorate in physiology.

It was in London that Dr Toh got closer to his future political comrades, Dr Goh Keng Swee and Mr Lee Kuan Yew.

In November 1954, the People's Action Party was formed - with Dr Toh as its Founding Chairman.

His was a voice of moderation and rationality, which helped hold together a party divided between the pro-communists and moderates.

In a tribute years later, Mr Lee said without Dr Toh holding the fort in the PAP, the party might never have held together.

After the PAP's landslide victory in 1959, Mr Lee was sworn in as Prime Minister.

And Dr Toh was sworn in as Deputy Prime Minister, a post he held till 1968.

Dr Toh who later served as Science and Technology Minister as well Health Minister, left the Cabinet in 1981 to make way for younger ministers as part of the political renewal process.

He retired as the MP for Rochore in 1988 - at the age of 67.

- CNA/cc

 

[Perspective]

Surviving members of the first PAP cabinet:
Lee Kuan Yew, Ong Pang Boon, Yong Nyuk Lin, Ong Eng Guan (who broke away)

Passed away:
Toh Chin Chye (2011), Goh Keng Swee (2010), S Rajaratnam (2006), K.M. Byrne (1990), Ahmad Ibrahim (1962)

 

[ruffles]

Former deputy prime minister Toh Chin Chye died on Friday morning at his home at the age of 90.

LKY will be 89 this Sept

 

[elephanto]

RIP Dr Toh...

His Most Famous Quote: I CANNOT BE A DUMB COW !

 

[zeddy]

Surviving members of the first PAP cabinet:
Lee Kuan Yew, Ong Pang Boon, Yong Nyuk Lin, Ong Eng Guan (who broke away)

Passed away:
Toh Chin Chye (2011), Goh Keng Swee (2010), S Rajaratnam (2006), K.M. Byrne (1990), Ahmad Ibrahim (1962)

Othman Wok, former Minister of Social Affairs is still alive and kicking too..

 

[Seee3]

If I remembered correctly his daughter was adopted and has taken very good care of him. A very nice lady.

 

[Perspective]

Othman Wok, former Minister of Social Affairs is still alive and kicking too..

He wasn't part of the first. More like the second. He replaced Ahmad who died young. The second batch includes Hon Sui Sen as well (who also passed away). He replaced Ong Eng Guan, who rebelled and formed the UPP.

 

[Narong Wongwan]

Barker as well......

I would include David Marshall too though not in the cabinet but a founding father

Surviving members of the first PAP cabinet:
Lee Kuan Yew, Ong Pang Boon, Yong Nyuk Lin, Ong Eng Guan (who broke away)

Passed away:
Toh Chin Chye (2011), Goh Keng Swee (2010), S Rajaratnam (2006), K.M. Byrne (1990), Ahmad Ibrahim (1962)

 

[Harry Lee]

Following the PAP's victory at the 1959 elections, the members of the party's Central Executive Committee voted to decide whether Lee, as the party's Secretary-General, or the party's Treasurer, Ong Eng Guan (who served as the Mayor on the City Council from 1957–59), should take up the newly-created post of Prime Minister. The vote was tied (6-6), and Toh, as the party's Chairman, used his casting vote in favour of Lee.

If not for TOH CHIN CHYE, we would have had ONG ENG GUAN as our first Prime Minister. Lee Kuan Yew could have left the Party instead. Or maybe expelled... or.... who knows.....

History would have had been different..........

 

[streetsmart73]

As Toh Chin Chye saw the problem clearly:

In a rare public interview in 1997 Radio Corporation of Singapore, Dr Toh passionately bemoaned the lack of idealism and creativity among the young and its implications for the future of Singapore. He said:


“I would say the generation of the ‘50s and ‘60s took the plunge into politics without ever calculating the costs of the risk and the benefits to be gained. They were driven by ideology.

Today’s generation has no culture and averse to taking political risk.

Really, an interest in politics is very necessary for the future.

But I cannot blame the present generations, because they see the heavy-handed response by the government to dissenting views, even though they know that these matters involve their daily lives.

So the result is that we have produced a younger generation who are meek and therefore very calculating.

They are less independent-thinking and lack in initiative.

It does not bode well for the emergence of future leaders in politics and business. Robots and computers can be programmed or if you like, can be trained.

But the trouble, of course, is that computers lack soul and what we need in Singapore is soul. Because it is soul that makes society.”

hi there


1. rip, dr toh.
2. he made sense too.
3. unassuming & modest.

 

[johnny333]

Years ago it was reported that Dr Toh was drink driving in a van. That case was obviously a case of mistaken identity. The so called reporter did not even to bother to check the age difference between the old Dr. Toh & young van driver

If it was one of the blue eyed PAP MPs the case would be escalated to LKY & probabky covered up
In Dr. Toh's case it is obvious that he does not come under LKY's protection

Anyone know why he is unpopular with the current PAP regime Isn't he still a PAP member?

 

[LITTLEREDDOT]

How did he die? Not stated in Channelnewsasia's report. So much for good journalism.

 

[Debonerman]

LKY will be 89 this Sept

My good wishes to Lee Kuan Yew that he'll stay 89 forever. Amen.