Othman wok grandchildren
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by Rachel Chan and Nicholas Yong
Othman Wok, a member of Singapore’s first Cabinet formed by Lee Kuan Yew and one of the 10 men who signed the Independence of Singapore Agreement, has died. He was 92.
Othman, who served as the Minister for Culture and Social Affairs Minister between 1963 and 1977, passed on Monday (17 April). A statement on the People’s Action Party Facebook page called him “one of the earliest proponents of multi-racialism in Singapore” and an integral member of independent Singapore’s first Cabinet.
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong also praised him as “one of the multi-racial team of founding leaders who built Singapore”.
Othman Wok was born on 8 October, 1924 to a Malay language-teacher-father and a housewife mother in Singapore. Othman attended Sekolah Melayu Telok Saga, Radin Mas English School, and Raffles Institution. While his grandfather frowned upon his son’s choice of an English education for Othman when the latter was a child, Othman’s bilingualism proved to be very useful later on in his political career.
During the Japanese Occupation (1942-
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Othman Wok (b. 8 October 1924, Singapore–d. 17 April 2017, Singapore) was a former politician who took on the social affairs (1963–77) and culture (1965–68) ministerial portfolios, as well as served as a People’s Action Party (PAP) member of parliament (MP) for the Pasir Panjang constituency (1963–81). Between 1977 and 1981, he was the ambassador to Indonesia while holding the appointment as a minister without portfolio before retiring from politics in 1981. Prior to his political career, Othman was a journalist with the Malay-language newspaper, Utusan Melayu. Considered an old guard of the PAP, Othman joined the party in 1954, in the early days of its formation.
Early life and education
Othman Wok was born to a teacher and school principal, Wok Ahmad, and his wife, Embon Mohamed, both of Orang Laut (sea gypsies) ancestry.1 His family descended from one of the few hundred families who were living in Singapore when Stamford Raffles arrived in 1819.2 For the first four years of his life, Othman lived at his uncle’s quarters with
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