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‘I don’t think you’ll have a future’: Chee Hong Tat on what he was told as a young civil servant
Minister for Transport Chee Hong Tat tells executive editor Sumiko Tan why he believes in taking calculated risks, and his approach to dealing with criticisms that ministers inevitably will face.
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Taking on the role of transport minister after his predecessor S Iswaran was investigated for corruption, Mr Chee Hong Tat tells Sumiko Tan that one can never really be ready for such a change.
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Back in the 1990s when Mr Chee Hong Tat was studying engineering at the University of California, Berkeley on a Singapore government scholarship, he did a “naughty thing”, he says.
Students at US colleges are allowed to take courses outside their area of study, so he took classes in economics and found that he enjoyed them.
