Indian-origin Singapore-born economist Tharman Shanmugaratnam will be sworn in as the ninth president of the city-state on Thursday, days after he was overwhelmingly elected as the ninth head of state of the country.
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Indian-origin Tharman Shanmugaratnam, a distinguished economist, won Singapore’s presidential race with 70.4 per cent of the votes, and became the third Indian-origin person to head the prosperous city-state for the next six years. He has been elected as the ninth president of the country with the incumbent President Halimah Yacob’s six-year term ending on September 13. Tharman is a multi-generational Singaporean of Tamil ancestry from the 19th century and is one of the most qualified citizens of the resource-scarce city-state that has witnessed various development phases for over 50 year
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