Desmond Choo
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The Honourable Desmond Choo MP |
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| 朱倍庆 | |
| Member of Parliament for Tampines GRC (Tampines Changkat) |
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Assumed office 11 September 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Irene Ng Phek Hoong |
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| Born | 1978 Singapore |
| Nationality |
 Singapore
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| Political party | People's Action Party |
| Spouse(s) | Pamela Lee (m. 2011) |
| Children | Sarah (b. 2015) |
| Education | Ai Tong Primary School |
| Alma mater | University of Chicago |
Desmond Choo Pey Ching (simplified Chinese: 朱倍庆; traditional Chinese: 朱倍慶; pinyin: Zhū Béi Qìng) is a Singaporean politician and Director (Progressive Wage Model) of the Industrial Relations Department, and concurrently Director of the Youth Development Unit at the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC). He is also the Executive Secretary of the Attractions, Resorts and Entertainment Union (AREU) and Union of Telecoms Employees of Singapore (UTES).
Choo stood as a candidate for Singapore's governing People's Action Party (PAP) at the 2011 general election in the single-member constituency of Hougang, where he was defeated by Yaw Shin Leong of the Workers' Party by 14,850 votes (64.8%) to 8,065 (35.2%). (The constituency had previously been represented in Parliament by the Workers' Party's leader, Low Thia Khiang, from 1991 to 2011.) After Yaw was expelled from the Workers' Party and lost his seat in Parliament in 2012, the PAP announced that Choo would be the party's candidate in the 2012 Hougang by-election. He was defeated in the by-election by Png Eng Huat of the Workers' Party by 13,460 votes (62.1%) to 8,223 (37.9%).
Choo began his career in the Singapore Police Force, where he served for 13 years in various roles including Commanding Officer of the Woodlands Neighbourhood Police Centre, Head of the Special Investigation Section and Deputy Commander of the Clementi Police Division. He also served a period on secondment to the Ministry of Manpower, where he was the Deputy Director of the Foreign Workforce Policy Department and was also a bodyguard assistant for the swearing-in of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and other new cabinet ministers at the Istana on 12 August 2004.[5]
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