Tan Chok Kian, former POSB chairman, dies at 84
Singapore
TAN Chok Kian Alphonsus, a former chairman of the beloved Post Office Savings Bank died on Sunday, aged 84. Mr Tan was also a senior civil servant who had served on many ministries and statutory boards in the 70s and 80s.
He was acting deputy secretary for finance (1963); permanent secretary for national development (1970-71); permanent secretary for finance (1972-73) and permanent secretary for social affairs (1977). He retired from the civil service in 1986.
Mr Tan was sent by Singapore's first prime minister Lee Kuan Yew to Nanyang University (Nantah) in 1977 to help push the Chinese-language university to become bilingual as its graduates were falling behind their Un…
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