--then--> Deputy Prime Minister Wong Kan Seng to comment to the media, "We cannot apply the law to some and turn a blind eye to others. If we do, then the law becomes the real white elephant."
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On 21 January 2006, Deputy Prime Minister Wong Kan Seng apologised for the way the police had overreacted to the group of school girls' plan to sell and wear white elephant T-shirts at the opening of Buangkok Station.
HTA had its operational launch in April 2006, and was declared officially opened on 2 September 2006 by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Home Affairs, Mr Wong Kan Seng.
Plans to set up the unit was publicly announced by Minister for Home Affairs Wong Kan Seng during the annual Police Workplan seminar in April 2005.
Another milestone in Singapore Prison Service’s history was the official opening of Tanah Merah Prison and Changi Women’s Prison/Drug Rehabilitation Centre on 23 April 1994 by then Minister for Home Affairs, Wong Kan Seng.
The founding of the Overseas Singaporean Unit coincided with several high-profile visits to the London by top Government officials and civil servants, including Chiang Chie Foo, the Permanent Secretary for the Prime Minister's Office, and Wong Kan Seng, the Deputy Prime Minister, who hosted a dinner reception for more than 300 Singaporeans at the Millennium Gloucester Hotel in Knightsbridge.
On 1 September 2005, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong appointed Wong as one of two Deputy Prime Ministers following the retirement of Tony Tan.
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He has since been re-elected as an MP representing the Group Representation Constituencies (GRCs) of Toa Payoh (1988), Thomson (1991) and Bishan-Toa Payoh (1997, 2001, 2006 and 2011).
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