Irene Ng Phek Hoong is a former Singaporean Member of Parliament who represented Tampines GRC from 2001 to 2015.
Education
From 1969–1979, Ng studied at Primary Convent Primary and Convent Secondary in Bukit Mertajam, Penang. She attended Nanyang Junior College, Singapore for two years and then did her Bachelor of Arts & Social Science at the National University of Singapore, obtaining her degree in 1986.
She obtained her M.Sc in International Relations at the & Political Science in 1998.
Career
She is also a Writer-in-Residence at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS). In 1986, Ng was the editor of Kyoto Publication. In 1986, Ng joined the Straits Times Press as a journalist.
Before joining politics in 2001, Ng was the Senior Political Correspondent of The Straits Times.
At the 2011 general election, she was re-elected with 57.22% of the votes against the National Solidarity Party. Ng is currently writing the second volume of the biography on Mr South. Rajaratnam, Singapore"s first Foreign Minister.
The first volume, The Singapore Lion: A Biography of South. Rajaratnam, was published in early 2010. On 11 August 2011, she produced another book "The Short Stories and Radio Plays of South. Rajaratnam", which she edited with an introduction.
lieutenant was launched by President Social Research Nathan.
The collection is now used as text in the National Arts Council’s Literary Arts Programme Literart Arts Programme for schools A telemovie titled +65 based on the book was aired on MediaCorp Channel 5 in March 2013. Irene is in the Government Parliamentary Committees (GPC) of Foreign Affairs and Defence,, as well as of Information and the Arts. She is Advisor and Trustee of the Amalgamated Union of Public Daily-Rated Workers.
She is also a long-time advocate of safe cycling and a prominent voice in Parliament on making Singapore a more cycling-friendly city.
She was instrumental in effecting legislative changes that made it possible for Tampines GRC to be officially designated Singapore’s first model cycling town. She is the Patron of the Singapore Cycling Federation.
She graduated from the National University of Singapore with a Bachelor of Arts and Social Science, studying sociology, English language and philosophy. She has a Master of Science in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
In 2006, Irene was awarded an Honorary Professorial Fellowship at the Edinburgh University.
Later that year, she was a Visiting Senior Fellow at East West Center, Hawaii.
Politics
After joining politics, she worked as Director of Programmes and Senior Research Fellow at the Singapore Institute of International Affairs, and later, as a Director at National Trades Union Congress. In the 2001 and 2006 general elections, Ng"s party, the People"s Action Party, were up against the Singapore Democratic Alliance over Tampines GRC.
Membership
She served as a faculty member of the Salzburg Global Seminar 2012.