It was Ong's longtime friend, Goh Chok Tong, who got the nod for the job.
The prime minister, Goh Chok Tong, has indicated that students may be given more political freedom.
Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong and Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew, among other PAP leaders, promptly sued Tang for defamation.
"The law cannot just apply without thinking of the consequences to the family, " Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong declared publicly.
Singapore Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong, whose government contributed to the rescue package, also arrived in Jakarta for a one-day visit.
Goei notes that Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong has signaled in key speeches that officials can take a more open attitude to critical dialogue.
On Nov. 16 in Kuala Lumpur, Singapore PM Goh Chok Tong and Hong Kong Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa agreed to find ways to settle the dispute.
He was greeted at the airport by Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong, and later played rounds with the PM, Singapore cabinet ministers and President Ong Teng Cheong.
Singapore's prime minister, Goh Chok Tong, has risen to the top of a meritocracy that rewards only the best and brightest such as his predecessor Lee Kuan Yew.
"At the Asia-Europe forum earlier this year, Premier Zhu had a conversation with Singapore's Goh Chok Tong in which he reiterated China's position, " recalls a Chinese trade official.
Singapore Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong warns that ASEAN has been "conspicuously missing" from the flurry of free-trade agreements worldwide, which help entice investors with the promise of enhanced access to multiple markets.
On their way back from Vancouver, both Dr Mahathir and Singapore's prime minister, Goh Chok Tong, found themselves compelled to make short stops in Taipei, where they met Taiwan's prime minister, Vincent Siew.
"The developed countries must avoid a sterile triumphalism or a one-medicine-cures-all prescription, " Singapore Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) meeting in Bangkok last week.
Some sources say Ong, 63, wanted to stand again, but encountered opposition from Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong - or maybe it was that PM Goh Chok Tong failed to push Ong's candidacy strongly enough.
Calls to make Singapore more conducive to bigger families had been echoing through the island since Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong brought the topic up yet again in his National Day Rally message in late August.
The elder Mr. Lee had retained cabinet-level advisory roles after handing over the premiership to Goh Chok Tong, but left the cabinet in May 2011 after his party won the general election with its slimmest victory margin yet.
General Lee, moreover, is the son of Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore's revered founding father and senior minister, and the younger brother of Lee Hsien Loong, who is deputy to the prime minister, Goh Chok Tong, and thus favourite to succeed him.
Starting from late 1994, "carrots" in one form or other are being served simultaneously with the brandishing of several "sticks" to the electorate (example: You cannot vote for upgrading if you vote for the opposition -- PM Goh Chok Tong in the local press).
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