Abbas Abu Amin is a former politician from the

People's Action Party The People's Action Party (abbreviation: PAP) is a major conservative centre-right political party in Singapore and is one of the three contemporary political parties represented in Parliament, alongside the opposition Workers' Party (WP) and ...

(PAP) who has served as the

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(MP) for

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(SMC) from 23 December 1980 to 17 August 1988 and

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(GRC) from 3 September 1988 to 14 August 1991. He studied at Kota Raja Malay School and

Victoria School Victoria School (VS) is a government autonomous boys' secondary school in Siglap, Singapore. Established in 1876, it is Singapore's second oldest state secondary school. It offers a six-year Integrated Programme, which allows students to skip t ...

. He went on to the Teachers' Training College and joined the

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(SAF) in 1966. He rose to the rank of Major in the Singapore Army. Abbas was also the Chairman of the

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from 1988 to 1991, and an active trade unionist in

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. His son is Ahmad Nizam Abbas, a lawyer.

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