Tan Choo Leng is the wife of Goh Chok Tong

Goh Chok Tong

Goh Chok Tong is the Senior Minister of Singapore and the chairman of the central bank of Singapore, the Monetary Authority of Singapore. He also served as the second Prime Minister of the Republic of Singapore from 28 November 1990 to 12 August 2004, succeeding Lee Kuan Yew, the former Prime...

, who was the second Prime Minister

Prime minister

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 of the Republic of Singapore from November 26, 1990 to August 12, 2004 and Senior Minister

Senior Minister

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.

She completed her LL.B from the University of Singapore

National University of Singapore Faculty of Law

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 (now known as the National University of Singapore), and is currently an Advocate

Advocate

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 and Solicitor

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 for M/s Wong Partnership.

She has also given her support to many charities, notably being a former patron of NKF

National Kidney Foundation Singapore

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 of Singapore. She became infamous for commenting that the S$600,000 paid out to the then CEO of NKF, T.T Durai yearly was considered "peanut

Peanut

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s," compared to the hundreds of millions that the NKF manages. This remark was subsequently met with extreme negative reactions from Singaporeans.

She stepped down as patron after the board and CEO resigned under public pressure on July 14, 2005. Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong

Goh Chok Tong

Goh Chok Tong is the Senior Minister of Singapore and the chairman of the central bank of Singapore, the Monetary Authority of Singapore. He also served as the second Prime Minister of the Republic of Singapore from 28 November 1990 to 12 August 2004, succeeding Lee Kuan Yew, the former Prime...

later told the press that Mrs. Goh regretted making that comment.