George Yeo
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"George Yeo Yong-Boon " is a former Singaporean politician. A member of the governing People's Action Party (PAP), he served in the Cabinet of Singapore/Cabinet from 1991 to 2011 as the Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts/Minister for Information and the Arts (1991–99), Ministry of Health (Singapore)/Minister for Health (1994–97), Ministry of Trade and Industry (Singapore)/Minister for Trade and Industry (1999–2004) and Minister for Foreign Affairs (Singapore)/Minister for Foreign Affairs (2004–11). However he lost his seat in Parliament of Singapore/Parliament at the Singaporean general election, 2011/2011 general election when the PAP's team in the Aljunied Group Representation Constituency was defeated by the team from the Workers' Party of Singapore/Workers' Party, following which he announced that he was retiring from politics.

Prior to entering Parliament, Yeo was a Brigadier General/Brigadier-General in the Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF). He served as the Chief of Staff of the RSAF from 1985 to 1986, and as the Director of Joint Operations and Planning at the Ministry of Defence (Singapore)/Ministry of Defence from 1986 to 1988.

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The world is big enough for both countries and each is too big to be contained by the other.

This will continue so I'm not too worried about these various demonstrations. We're just being used by various parties to hit at each other.

I hope we are improving by our standards. Whether we are improving by your standards or American standards is a different question. Our responsibility is to Singaporeans, and what we do here should meet their approval. There are no universal prescriptions.