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

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.