“OPEN and consultative” – that is how Singapore’s state-linked media has described the country’s leader-in-waiting, Heng Swee Keat.
According to The Straits Times, “nice, genuine, soft-spoken, kind” were the adjectives that kept cropping up when colleagues discussed the finance minister, who looks set to succeed Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong after being named the ruling People’s Action Party’s (PAP) next first assistant secretary-general.
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