{"id":154235,"date":"2023-08-03T12:48:11","date_gmt":"2023-08-03T07:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=154235"},"modified":"2023-08-03T12:48:13","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T07:18:13","slug":"seah-kian-peng-becomes-the-new-speaker-of-the-singapore-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/seah-kian-peng-becomes-the-new-speaker-of-the-singapore-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"Seah Kian Peng becomes the new Speaker of the Singapore Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Seah Kian Peng becomes the new Speaker of the Singapore Parliament: <\/strong>On August 2nd, 2023, <strong>Seah Kian Peng<\/strong>\u00a0was sworn in as the\u00a0<strong>New Speaker of Parliament\u00a0<\/strong>following the recent resignation of<strong>\u00a0Tan Chuan-Jin(former Singaporean Speaker)<\/strong>\u00a0who was accused of some wrongdoing Assessment. Mr Seah becomes the country&#8217;s 11th Speaker in the wake of his predecessor Tan Chuan-Jin stepping down over an extramarital affair with fellow People&#8217;s Action Party MP Cheng Li Hui, who also resigned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/daily-current-affairs-and-quiz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Daily Current Affairs Quiz: August 2023<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Seah Kian Peng<\/strong> is a board member of the&nbsp;<strong>Singapore Olympic Foundation<\/strong>. He served in<strong>&nbsp;Singtel&nbsp;<\/strong>and&nbsp;<strong>National Park Board<\/strong>. &nbsp;Just a week before that, Mr Tan also had to apologise for using &#8220;unparliamentary language&#8221; in response to an opposition lawmaker&#8217;s speech in the House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seah Kian Peng becomes the new Speaker of the Singapore Parliament: On August 2nd, 2023, Seah Kian Peng\u00a0was sworn in as the\u00a0New Speaker of Parliament\u00a0following the recent resignation of\u00a0Tan Chuan-Jin(former Singaporean Speaker)\u00a0who was accused of some wrongdoing Assessment. Mr Seah becomes the country&#8217;s 11th Speaker in the wake of his predecessor Tan Chuan-Jin stepping down [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":154237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[5142],"tags":[4916,303],"class_list":["post-154235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-august-2023","tag-national-current-affairs","tag-singapore-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154238,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154235\/revisions\/154238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}