It’s Just Like JC All Over Again

Obbana Rajah After the recent Cabinet reshuffle, four schoolmates from Raffles Junior College (RJC) find themselves colleagues. This reunion comes 30 years after taking their A-Level examinations together. The four, Edwin Tong, Chan Chun Sing, Ong Ye Kung and Tan Chuan-Jin were all batch-mates at RJC. However, right after JC, their paths diverged a bit, before coincidentally coming together again during this Cabinet reshuffle. After junior college, current Minister for Education Ong Ye Kung became a civil servant, Minister for Trade and Industry Chan Chun Sing and Speaker of the House Tan Chuan-Jin both went on to join the Singapore Armed Forces, becoming generals, and Edwin Tong, soon-to-be Senior Minister of State for Law and Health was Senior Counsel at Allen & Gledhill LLC. 2015 also saw all four former RJC boys elected to Parliament, with two in Marine Parade GRC – Edwin Tong and Tan Chuan-Jin.

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