GE2025: Social entrepreneur among 10 potential candidates featured in PAP video
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(Clockwise from top left) Mr Cai Yinzhou, Mr Jackson Lam, Dr Charlene Chen, Mr Victor Lye, Mr David Neo, Ms Lee Hui Ying, Mr Gabriel Lam, Mr Lee Hong Chuang, Mr Syed Harun Alhabsyi and Ms Gho Sze Kee were featured in the latest PAP candidate video.
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SINGAPORE - Social entrepreneur Cai Yinzhou is one of 10 potential candidates featured in the latest PAP video
The director of Citizen Adventures conducts walking tours in Geylang and Dakota Crescent, and organises events and initiatives advocating social issues. He also started an initiative to give free haircuts to those in need.
Mr Cai received the Singapore Youth Award in 2017.
In 2020, he was also nominated for The Straits Times Singaporean of the Year award for co-founding the Covid-19 Migrant Support Coalition during the pandemic.
The then 30-year-old had mobilised volunteers across several migrant worker aid groups to help workers endure their dormitory lockdowns. The coalition distributed meals and essential goods such as groceries and toiletries to workers.
Others featured in the video include Mr Jackson Lam, 40, the former PAP branch chairman in Hougang, former Nominated MP Syed Harun Alhabsyi, 39; and grassroots volunteer and civil servant Lee Hui Ying, 36. All three have been spotted in Nee Soon GRC.
Former chief of army David Neo, 47, was also part of the video, as was Dr Charlene Chen, 43, assistant professor of marketing at Nanyang Technological University. Both are on the PAP’s Tampines GRC slate.
Also in the video was 42-year-old Gabriel Lam, chief operating officer of moving company Shalom International Movers. He will likely stand in Sembawang GRC for the polls on May 3.
Another potential candidate featured was shipping lawyer Gho Sze Kee, who is in her mid-40s. She has been photographed alongside Mountbatten MP Lim Biow Chuan since August 2024, but has also appeared with incumbent MPs for the Marine Parade cluster at an event on April 6.
PAP veterans Lee Hong Chuang, 54, and Victor Lye, 63, were also featured.
Mr Lee, former branch chairman of the PAP’s Hougang division who contested the WP-held Hougang seat in the 2015 and 2020 elections, is part of the slate for the newly formed Jurong East-Bukit Batok GRC
Mr Lye was part of the PAP teams for Aljunied GRC that lost to the WP in the 2015 and 2020 general elections. Formerly the chairman of the PAP Bedok Reservoir-Punggol branch for 13 years, he was seen with Senior Minister Lee Hsien Loong in Ang Mo Kio GRC on April 13.
Prime Minister Lawrence Wong said in the video: “We come from different backgrounds, hold different perspectives, and grew up in different cultures, but our differences should never pull us apart. Being Singaporean doesn’t mean giving up our identity. It means embracing and valuing each other for who we are.”
He added: “Singapore may be small but there will always be a place for everyone. Over the past 60 years, we have confronted crises and overcome obstacles together. We have stood by one another, lifted each other up in difficult times, and emerged stronger.
“Our unity is our greatest strength. It is a precious asset that we must continue to protect and nurture. It gives us the courage, determination and resolve to tackle new challenges.”
The video ended by urging Singaporeans to stay united as one Team Singapore and to keep the nation a shining beacon of stability, progress and harmony.
