SINGAPORE - With Tuesday's (April 24) announcement of his appointment as an office-holder, lawyer Edwin Tong rounds up a power-packed quartet from the same batch in the same educational institution occupying some of the top political positions in the nation.

The Marine Parade GRC MP will work even more closely with former Raffles Junior College (RJC) batchmates - Speaker of Parliament Tan Chuan-Jin and ministers Chan Chun Sing and Ong Ye Kung - from July 1, when he becomes Senior Minister of State for Law and Health.