George Yong-Boon Yeo is a politician from Singapore. A member of the governing People's Action Party (PAP), he is currently the country's Minister for Foreign Affairs. Ethnically Chinese, Yeo belongs to the Teochew dialect group. He had his early education at Saint Patrick's School and Saint Joseph's Institution. He was a Singapore Armed Forces Overseas Merit Scholar and a President's Scholar, and completed a degree in engineering at Cambridge University in 1976.

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  • George Yong-Boon Yeo is a politician from Singapore. A member of the governing People's Action Party (PAP), he is currently the country's Minister for Foreign Affairs. Ethnically Chinese, Yeo belongs to the Teochew dialect group. He had his early education at Saint Patrick's School and Saint Joseph's Institution. He was a Singapore Armed Forces Overseas Merit Scholar and a President's Scholar, and completed a degree in engineering at Cambridge University in 1976. He also did an MBA at the Harvard Business School in 1983. Yeo served in the Republic of Singapore Air Force, rising to the rank of Brigadier General prior to starting his career in politics. He is married to Jennifer Leong, and the couple have one daughter and three sons. Prior to taking up his present role as Minister for Foreign Affairs, Yeo previously served as Minister for Information and the Arts, Minister for Health, and Minister for Trade and Industry. Yeo has been a Member of Parliament representing the Aljunied Group Representation Constituency since 1988. In the 2006 General Elections, Yeo's team won the constituency with 56.1% of the votes to the Workers' Party's 43.9%. This was the narrowest victory in any Group Representation Constitiuency at that election, and came in the wake of the controversy surrounding one of the Worker's Party's candidates, James Gomez. The main issues in the elections included employment; cost of living; government policies; the need for an effective opposition voice in parliament; and the quality of the candidates. Yeo was the first Singaporean Minister to start blogging. He has been blogging since August 2006. Yeo is married to lawyer Jennifer Yeo Lai Peng and he is also the uncle of Chinese American actress Gwendoline Yeo. Yeo has taken an important role in restarting the ancient Buddhist university, Nalanda University, in Bihar, India.
  • George Yong-Boon Yeo on singaporelainen poliitikko. Hän on hoitanut useaan otteeseen eri ministerien virkoja ja toimii tällä haavaa maansa ulkoasiainministerinä. Etniseltä taustaltaan kiinalainen Yeo opiskeli Saint Patrick's Schoolissa ja Saint Joseph's Institutionissa Singaporessa. Hän on avioliitossa Jennifer Leongin kanssa, ja heillä on kolme poikaa ja yksi tytär. Yeo on näyttelijä Gwendoline Yeon setä. Yeo on ollut muun muassa talousministerinä ja terveysministerinä. Ulkoministeriksi hän nousi Shunmugam Jayakumarin seuraajana 12. elokuuta 2004.
  • George Yong-Boon Yeo, est un homme politique singapourien. Ministre des Affaires étrangères de Singapour depuis le 12 août 2004. Il fut ministre des Affaires étrangères de 1988 à 1994, ministre de la Communication et des Arts de 1990 à 1999, ministre de la Santé de 1994 à 1997 et ministre du Commerce et de l'Industrie de 1999 à 2004.
  • 杨荣文 (George Yong-Boon Yeo 1954年－) ，祖籍广东潮安县庵埠镇文里乡，1954年9月13日在新加坡出生，1973年荣获新加坡总统奖学金及新加坡武装部队奖学金赴英国剑桥大学深造。于1976年毕业加入新加坡武装部队。1983年获美国哈佛大学肯尼迪行政管理学院公共行政学硕士学位。回国后任新加坡武装部队参谋长兼联合行动与策划司长。1988年升准将，同年辞去军职。1988年9月当选为国会议员，后在1991年、1997年，2001年 及2006年的大选中继续当选。阿裕尼集选区国会议员。 1988年9月13日到1990年11月27日，任新加坡财政部政务部长兼外交部政务部长。1990年11月28日，在吴作栋总理内阁，他被任命代新闻及艺术部长兼外交部高级政务部长。 1991年7月1日，他被升任新闻及艺术部长兼外交部第二部长。2004 年8月12日，在李显龙总理内阁被任命外交部长。2004年杨荣文在联合国大会上发言指出台湾一些团体试图让台湾走向“独立”是危险之极的举动，引发台湾的强烈反应。 杨荣文是第一位公开撰写blog（網誌、部落格、博客）的新加坡内阁成员。杨荣文育有一个女儿和三个儿子。杨荣文也是美國華裔演員楊時賢的叔父。
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  • 12 August 2004
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  • George Yong-Boon Yeo is a politician from Singapore. A member of the governing People's Action Party (PAP), he is currently the country's Minister for Foreign Affairs. Ethnically Chinese, Yeo belongs to the Teochew dialect group. He had his early education at Saint Patrick's School and Saint Joseph's Institution. He was a Singapore Armed Forces Overseas Merit Scholar and a President's Scholar, and completed a degree in engineering at Cambridge University in 1976.
  • George Yong-Boon Yeo on singaporelainen poliitikko. Hän on hoitanut useaan otteeseen eri ministerien virkoja ja toimii tällä haavaa maansa ulkoasiainministerinä. Etniseltä taustaltaan kiinalainen Yeo opiskeli Saint Patrick's Schoolissa ja Saint Joseph's Institutionissa Singaporessa. Hän on avioliitossa Jennifer Leongin kanssa, ja heillä on kolme poikaa ja yksi tytär. Yeo on näyttelijä Gwendoline Yeon setä. Yeo on ollut muun muassa talousministerinä ja terveysministerinä.
  • George Yong-Boon Yeo, est un homme politique singapourien. Ministre des Affaires étrangères de Singapour depuis le 12 août 2004. Il fut ministre des Affaires étrangères de 1988 à 1994, ministre de la Communication et des Arts de 1990 à 1999, ministre de la Santé de 1994 à 1997 et ministre du Commerce et de l'Industrie de 1999 à 2004.
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  • George Yeo
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