President of Singapore
The President of the Republic of Singapore is the country's head of state. Singapore has a parliamentary system of government. Executive authority is exercised by the Cabinet led by the Prime Minister of Singapore. The current president is Halimah Yacob, who was elected unopposed at the 2017 presidential election. She is the first female President of Singapore and first Malay head of state in 47 years since the death of Yusof Bin Ishak, Singapore's first president.
Lim Tean
"This is a Chinese name; the family name is Lim."
Lim Tean (born November 17, 1964) is a Singaporean opposition politician and Cambridge-educated lawyer. He is the founding leader of People’s Voice (PV), the 11th political party in Singapore, and previously served as Secretary-General of the National Solidarity Party from 30 August 2015 - 18 May 2017. He identifies as centre-left, and has been associated with both Progressive and Social Democratic causes.
Lim is currently is the lawyer representing prominent anti-government critic and blogger Leong Sze Hian in the ongoing high profile case brought by current Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.
Lim Tean was born in 1964 as the eldest son of Lim Chin Teong, a senior Singaporean civil servant and former Chief Executive Director of the People’s Association in the late 70’s and early 80’s, and his mother Aw Eng Lian, a Chinese-language teacher at Zhonghua Girls School for over 40 years. Both of Lim’s parents graduated from (the now defunct) Nanyang University (Nantah).