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13-568: Bukit Gombak is a subzone of Bukit Batok , Singapore. It is a hilly neighbourhood in the west-central area of the Southeast Asian city-state of Singapore. In the Malay language , bukit means hill and gombak a bunch or collection of something. The neighbourhood consists of two hills. One of them stands at 133m while the other stands at 113m. They are Singapore's second and third highest natural point after Bukit Timah Hill . Bukit Gombak

26-757: A partner in January 2008, specialising in civil litigation and family law. In 2013, she left practice and served as Deputy Registrar at the Syariah Court of Singapore before returning to practice in August 2015. She is also an Associate Mediator accredited by the Singapore Mediation Centre . Rahayu was announced as a People's Action Party (PAP) candidate on 20 August 2015 to join the five-member PAP team contesting in Jurong GRC during

39-733: A team from the National Solidarity Party led by Tony Tan Lay Thiam and Hazel Poa by 61.2% to 38.8%. Minister of State Low Yen Ling represents the Bukit Gombak division within Chua Chu Kang GRC following Ang Mong Seng's retirement in 2011. This division includes Housing and Development Board apartment blocks near the Bukit Gombak MRT station as well as the private estates and condominiums off Hillview Avenue . A small portion of Bukit Gombak

52-514: Is bounded by Bukit Batok Road, West Avenue 5, the North side of Bukit Gombak Sports Complex, West and North side of Town Park, the North-West and North side of the landed housing estate along Hillview Avenue, Upper Bukit Timah Road and Choa Chu Kang Road. It is generally regarded as the area around the elevated Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) train station of the same name (NS3), including the hills to

65-825: Is part of Jurong GRC, which Senior Parliamentary Secretary Rahayu Mahzam currently represents as the Member of Parliament for the Bukit Batok East Division. Bukit Batok Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below. Request from 172.68.168.132 via cp1112 cp1112, Varnish XID 950601948 Upstream caches: cp1112 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Thu, 28 Nov 2024 08:33:58 GMT Rahayu Mahzam A lawyer by profession, Rahayu specialises in civil litigation and family law. She made her political debut in

78-581: The 2015 general election as part of a five-member PAP team contesting in Jurong GRC and won 79.3% of the vote. Rahayu studied at Raffles Girls' School and Raffles Junior College before she went to the National University of Singapore 's Faculty of Law , where she completed a Bachelor of Laws in 2003 and was called to the Bar in 2004. Rahayu joined Heng, Leong & Srinivasan LLC as

91-553: The 2015 general election . After the PAP team won with 79.29% of the vote against SingFirst , Rahayu became a Member of Parliament representing the Bukit Batok East ward of Jurong GRC. In 2017, she was part of the taskforce set up to implement tighter regulations on formula milk manufacturers. During 2020 general election , Rahayu joined the five-member PAP team contesting in Jurong GRC again and they won with 74.62% of

104-534: The Ministry of Law added to her portfolio. At the same time, she relinquished her Communications and Information portfolio. In the May 2024 Cabinet Reshuffle prior to Prime Minister-Designate Lawrence Wong being sworn in as Singapore's 4th Prime Minister, Rahayu was promoted to Minister of State in the Ministry of Health as well as the Ministry of Communications and Information , while relinquishing her appointment in

117-522: The Singapore Democratic Party candidate Ling How Doong by winning 53.5% of the vote. In 1991, Bukit Gombak became one of only four constituencies held by the opposition when Ling won 51.4% of the votes to Seet's 48.6%. In 1997 Ling lost his seat to the PAP's Ang Mong Seng by over 30% of the vote and Bukit Gombak returned to PAP control. In the redrawing of electoral boundaries in 2001, shortly before general elections were held,

130-705: The area was subsumed under the five-member Hong Kah Group Representation Constituency . The PAP slate comprising Yeo Cheow Tong , John Chen Seow Phun , Ahmad Khalis bin Abdul Ghani , Ang Mong Seng and Amy Khor Lean Suan defeated the Singapore Democratic Party with 79.7% of the vote. The PAP won the GRC in a walkover in the 2006 general election with Alvin Yeo and Zaqy Mohamad as new candidates replacing John Chen and Ahmad Khalis. Ang Mong Seng remained as representative for Bukit Gombak. The smallest portion of Bukit Gombak

143-518: The east of the station and HDB apartment blocks along Bukit Batok West Avenue 5 and East Avenue 5. The Tower Transit feeder bus service 945 from the Bukit Batok bus interchange plies the general area. Bukit Gombak was a single-member constituency in the Singapore general elections in 1988 , 1991 and 1997 . In 1988, the ruling party People's Action Party candidate Dr. Seet Ai Mee defeated

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156-554: The vote against Red Dot United . Rahayu thus retained her parliamentary seat in Bukit Batok East and was appointed Parliamentary Secretary on 1 September 2020 at the Ministry of Health . On 15 May 2021, she received an additional appointment as Parliamentary Secretary at the Ministry of Communications and Information . Rahayu was promoted to Senior Parliamentary Secretary at the Ministry of Health on 13 June 2022 with

169-529: Was also subsumed under the five-member Jurong GRC , with Halimah Yacob as the MP for Bukit Batok East, until 2015. Following Hong Kah GRC's dissolution and the 2011 general elections , Bukit Gombak became part of Chua Chu Kang Group Representation Constituency contested by the PAP slate comprising Gan Kim Yong (former member for Chua Chu Kang Single Member Constituency ), Alvin Yeo, Zaqy Mohamad and new candidates Low Yen Ling and Alex Yam Ziming . They defeated

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