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Fact Sheet: The Defence Scholarships and Profiles of Scholarship Recipients
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Recipients of The Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) Scholarship
Introduced in , The SAF Scholarship, formerly known as SAF Overseas Scholarship (SAFOS), is a prestigious scholarship second only to the President's Scholarship. There are recipients of The SAF Scholarship to date.
Past SAF scholars include Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Senior Minister and Coordinating Minister for National Security Teo Chee Hean, Speaker of Parliament Tan Chuan-Jin, Minister for Trade and Industry Chan Chun Sing, Chief of Defence Force Lieutenant-General Melvyn Ong, Permanent Secretary (Smart Nation and Digital Government) and Chairman of Government Technology Agency of Singapore (GovTech) Ng Chee Khern, CEO of National Environment Agency Ronnie Tay, and CEO of Changi Airport Group Lee Seow Hiang.
There are nine recipients of The SAF Scholarship this year. They are (in alphabetical order):
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Chew Chor Meng 周初明 | Hong Daming 洪达明 | , Fa-ge (发哥/明哥), Benjamin
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