28.03.2011 PAP Press Conference
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Tin Pei Ling 陈佩玲 28, is a Senior Associate at Ernst & Young Advisory Pte Ltd. Over the last 4 years, she has been involved in business and management consultancy work for both public and private sector organisations. Her work experience includes strategic thinking and planning, change management and performance management.
Pei Ling has been deeply involved in grassroots and community work for 7 years. She chaired the organising committee of the National Youth Forum 2006 and was a member of the 5th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Youth 2007 Youth Organising Committee and YOG Youth Engagement Committee. Pei Ling has also been an active volunteer in the Ulu Pandan grassroots, where she now serves as the Chairperson of the Ulu Pandan Youth Executive Committee and a member of the Community Development Welfare Fund Committee.
To encourage youths to achieve their potential and contribute to the broader community, Pei Ling has organised youth events that promote intergenerational bonding and active ageing for senior citizens. The project that Pei Ling feels most pleased with was “Lady of the Golden Years 2008” (currently known as “My Youthful Golden Years”). The project was a pageant organised by youths for seniors, to encourage young and elderly Singaporeans to interact, understand and bond with each other. It started off as a suggestion by seniors and Pei Ling made it a reality.
Pei Ling is an active Internet user and has been playing an active role in YP Media, which she currently heads. She sees new media as
a platform to give voice to people from all walks of life, to share good ideas and to promote understanding across different values
and viewpoints.
Pei Ling was educated in Hwa Chong Junior College and Crescent Girls’ School, where she was Crescentian of the Year 2000 – an award to recognise all-round achievements. She graduated from the National University of Singapore with an honours degree in Social Sciences. At NUS, she was also on the University Scholars Programme. Pei Ling continues to be an active alumnus and is a member of the University Scholars Programme Residential College Steering Committee.
Pei Ling is effectively bilingual. In 2005, she represented Singapore and won first prize at the Taipei City Cup Impromptu Chinese-English Speech Competition.
Pei Ling is married and hopes to have children in the future. Pei Ling enjoys surfing the internet and Facebook and spending time with her family.
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PAP's youngest candidate answers a series of questions posed by reporters.
Questions include:
* Are Singaporean's apathetic?
* What is her greatest regret?
* So you think more can be done to alleviate the high cost of living, especially for the sandwiched class?
* What is one PAP policy you would change?
* How would you react to netizens' online rants?
Watch the video for her answers.
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Matthias has given Tin Pei Ling high marks. He found her mature, bright, pleasant n able to connect with young n old. PM has agreed to let her contest n serve in MacPherson. Welcome to the Marine Parade GRC family, Pei Ling. - gct
GE: PAP unveils third batch of new GE candidates
SINGAPORE: The ruling People's Action Party (PAP) on Monday made known its third batch of new candidates for the coming General Election (GE).
Among the new faces are 27-year-old Tin Pei Ling, the youngest PAP candidate introduced so far for the coming GE.
SINGAPORE: The ruling People's Action Party (PAP) on Monday made known its third batch of new candidates for the coming General Election (GE).
Among the new faces are 27-year-old Tin Pei Ling, the youngest PAP candidate introduced so far, and 46-year-old Zainal Sapari, PAP's first new Malay candidate unveiled for the coming GE.
The third candidate introduced on Monday is 48-year-old Gan Thiam Poh, currently the senior vice-president of the Institutional Banking Group of DBS.
PAP chairman Lim Boon Heng said the party has cast its net wide in the search for candidates.
In doing so, the party has not been constrained by ideology, he said.
Mr Lim said this broad-based approach is the PAP's advantage, as it ensures there will be robust policy debates within party ranks.
"Because we pick people from outside, who don't normally associate with us, at least for long periods of time, they come with independent minds, with different perspectives on different policies," Mr Lim said.
The PAP has introduced nine new faces to the electorate so far.
Ms Tin Pei Ling
Ms Tin, a senior associate at Ernst & Young Advisory, is the youngest candidate to be fielded thus far.
But Mr Lim said whether age was a barrier for Ms Tin would depend on her performance.
"It is through your deeds of what you do that demonstrate your sincerity of wanting to serve and whether you put their interests first and foremost," Mr Lim said.
"And when you do this over time, people will judge you and people will decide whether you are someone they can look to, to trust."
Ms Tin added: "Although I am young, I have the energy, the youthfulness, the attitude and willingness to learn and serve the people I will represent.
"Although I have been in the grassroots for the past seven years, I have deep respect for the senior grassroots leaders and the volunteers I have come in contact with.
"I have always learnt from them that it is about serving with a heart.
"At the end of the day, age shouldn't be an issue. It is about the potential and capacity to learn, to reach out to people of different segments and to come out with meaningful initiatives and solutions to help them".
Over the last four years, Ms Tin been involved in business and management consultancy work for both public- and private-sector organisations.
Her work experience includes strategic thinking and planning, change management and performance management.
The PAP said Ms Tin has been deeply involved in grassroots and community work for seven years.
She is an active Internet user and has been playing an active role in YP Media, which she currently heads.
Ms Tin said she sees new media as a platform to give voice to people from all walks of life, to share good ideas and to promote understanding across different values and viewpoints.
"Our own activists have to be active out there in the social media realm," Ms Tin said.
"Currently it is quite dominated by some of the netizens who are more pro-opposition or anti-establishment from the bulk of comments that we always see.
"one (of the things) we can do is for our young activists to engage netizens on serious topics and issues to find out more of what they are concerned with and try to put forth our point of view."
Ms Tin is currently understudying MP for MacPherson Matthias Yao.
According to an entry on the Marine Parade Facebook page, "MParader", Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has agreed to let Ms Tin contest and serve in MacPherson.
The division has been absorbed into the Marine Parade GRC under the latest Electoral Boundaries Review report.
Also according to "MParader", incumbent MacPherson MP, Matthias Yao has given Ms Tin high marks and that he found her "mature, bright, pleasant and able to connect with young the and old".
-CNA/ir/wk
PAP unveils 3 more new faces
By Yen Feng
Ms Tin Pei Ling, 28, is a senior associate at Ernst & Young Advisory. -- PHOTO: PAP
THE People's Action Party on Monday unveiled its third batch of new faces to be fielded in the coming elections.
They include the first Malay-Muslim candidate and the youngest PAP candidate among the total of nine introduced so far. The trio introduced on Monday afternoon are Mr Zainal Sapari, 46, an educator; Ms Tin Pei Ling, 27, a business consultant; and Mr Gan Thiam Poh, 48, a banker with DBS.
PAP chairman Lim Boon Heng, who introduced the candidates at the PAP headquarters, said the most important quality the party looked for in new candidates was their commitment to serve the public.
He added that in the search for new candidates, the party had adopted a 'broad-based' approach to encourage 'robustness of debate' within the party.
Ms Tin, a senior associate with Ernst & Young, and Mr Gan, a senior vice-president with DBS' Institutional Banking Group, were selected in part for their many years of service to the public, Mr Lim said. Their names were among the list of potential members which the party considered from its various branches. Both began their grassroots work as members of the party's Youth Wing.
Mr Sapari, currently an NTUC Director (Special Duty, Industrial Relations), was chosen for his record as an educator in primary education for nearly 20 years. He was a superintendent and currently also serves on the Joint Madrasah Education Panel.
All three candidates are married and - except Ms Tin - have young children. Both Mr Gan and Mr Sapari said they grew up in low-income families and pointed to helping the needy as a major component of their political agenda. Ms Tin said she would focus on youth and elderly issues.
At the news conference, Mr Lim also thanked outgoing party members and said they would be thanked individually and collectively at the right time.
Tin Pei Ling, 28, is a Senior Associate at Ernst & Young Advisory Pte Ltd. Over the last 4 years, she has been involved in business and management consultancy work for both public and private sector organisations. Her work experience includes strategic thinking and planning, change management and performance management.
Pei Ling has been deeply involved in grassroots and community work for 7 years. She chaired the organising committee of the National Youth Forum 2006 and was a member of the 5th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Youth 2007 Youth Organising Committee and YOG Youth Engagement Committee.
Pei Ling is an active Internet user and has been playing an active role in YP Media, which she currently heads. She sees new media as a platform to give voice to people from all walks of life, to share good ideas and to promote understanding across different values and viewpoints.
Pei Ling is married and hopes to have children in the future.
Third batch of PAP candidates
THE People's Action Party introduced another three new candidates on Monday.
They comprise one of the youngest PAP candidates to contest in the coming polls, a banker and an educator.
Ms Tin Pei Ling, 27
* A senior associate associate with Ernst & Young Advisory, she will be one of the youngest People's Action Party (PAP) candidates to contest in the coming polls. Before her, the youngest fielded by PAP in 1976, was former Speaker Tan Soon Khoon, also at age 27 years.
* Married to covil servant Ng How Yue, she has been deeply involved in grassroots and community work for seven years since she was 21.
* Chaired the organising committee of the National Youth Forum 2006 and was a member of the 5th Asean Ministerial Meeting on Youth 2007 Youth Organising Committee and YOG Youth Engagement Committee.
* An active volunteer in the Ulu Pandan grassroots, where she now serves as the chairperson of the Ulu Pandan Youth executive committee and a member of the community development welfare fund committee.
* Educated in Hwa Chong Junior College and Crescent Girls' School, and later the National University of Singapore with an honours degree in Social Sciences.
PAP's youngest candidate has tech-savvy edge
Don't be surprised if you receive a message on social-networking website Facebook from Ms Tin Pei Ling soon.
The new People's Action Party (PAP) candidate intends to use social media to reach out to the younger generation in the lead-up to the upcoming election.
Ms Tin, who sits on the executive committee of the party's youth wing, Young PAP (YP), said: "By building a friendship online, we can then take them into the real world where we sit down, face to face, to interact with each other...and we can have a more constructive discussion."
She also heads YP Media, the team set up to drive YP's virtual, technological and digital outreach. At 27, the senior associate at professional-services company Ernst and Young is the youngest PAP candidate to be introduced so far.
She was speaking at the PAP headquarters in New Upper Changi Road yesterday, where the party's third batch of three fresh candidates was unveiled by PAP chairman Lim Boon Heng.
The other two candidates are Mr Zainal Sapari, 46, director (special duty), Industrial Relations Department of NTUC, and Mr Gan Thiam Poh, 48, senior vice-president of DBS Bank's Institutional Banking Group.
Having observed sentiments aired online on various political issues, Ms Tin said: "Our own activists need to be active out there in the social-media realm...and engage netizens on serious topics."
Her age is also a cause of contention, with netizens expressing their doubts about her capabilities and ability to connect with the older generation.
However, Ms Tin feels that her youth will not be an issue. She has had experience serving as a grassroots leader in the Ulu Pandan ward in Holland-Bukit Timah GRC since the age of 21.
Humble upbringing links three candidates
What links the three candidates are their humble backgrounds, rooted in the heartland.
Ms Tin is the only child of Chinese-speaking parents who have only primary-school education. Her mother is a housewife, while her father ran a coffee shop in Ghim Moh. Ms Tin helped out at the coffee shop during her school days.
PAP最年轻候选人 陈佩玲：不受批评影响
对于网上的批评，陈佩玲表示不会被影响。（图/联合早报）
人民行动党（PAP）最年轻候选人陈佩玲（28岁）昨天终于在行动党的第3批新候选人介绍会上正式亮相。
自坊间谣传陈佩玲将出来竞选，网上便出现不少对她的评语，其中包括批评。陈佩玲大方表示自己也有所闻，但强调不会被这些负面评语影响。
她说：“被别人攻击是不可避免的，这也是社交媒体的特点之一。人们可以有疑问，但我希望我能有机会证明自己有能力为选民服务，做好自己的工作。”
针对自己一段在PAP活动上的视频被网友传开来，引起不少网友抨击她表现不够稳重，陈佩玲解释说：“这本来就是一个好玩的视频，是朋友提议要拍的，我事先并不知情，所以（表现得）很惊讶。”
陈佩玲目前是PAP青年团的中委，也是行青团荷兰—武吉知马（Holland-Bukit Timah）区主席。她是独生女，来自小康之家，念华中初级学院时经常在父亲经营的咖啡店中帮忙，因此接触了来自各个社会阶层的居民，打下了为基层服务的基础。过去7年，她一直活跃于基层活动。
自称Y世代的陈佩玲表示，最希望为年轻社群和乐龄者作出贡献。
