New president of Singapore
September 4 , 2023
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- Former Singapore deputy prime minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam was elected as new president.
- In 2011, he became Deputy Prime Minister while still overseeing the finance portfolio.
- He was born in Singapore in 1957, to a Tamil father and a Chinese mother.
- His father, Kanagaratnam Shanmugaratnam, was a renowned pathologist and cancer researcher.

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