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'Selfless titan': Legal, banking leaders pay tribute to ex-CJ Yong Pung How

Published Thu, Jan 9, 2020 · 09:50 PM

    Singapore

    SINGAPORE'S former chief justice Yong Pung How, who died on Thursday morning aged 93, was a "selfless titan who dedicated himself to building up Singapore and her institutions", said Home Affairs and Law Minister K Shanmugam.

    Paying tribute to Mr Yong in a Facebook post, Mr Shanmugam said that he was privileged and fortunate to have been a practising lawyer when Mr Yong was a High Court judge and then Chief Justice from 1990 to 2006.

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