12 Facts About Charles Yeo

Charles Yeo Yao Hui is a Singaporean lawyer and former politician who served as the chairman of the opposition Reform Party between 2020 and 2022.

Charles Yeo became a member of the RP since 2011 and became part of the central executive committee of RP from June 2019.

Charles Yeo was part of the five-member Reform Party team which contested the Ang Mo Kio Group Representation Constituency during the 2020 Singaporean general election, running against the People's Action Party team which led by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, and his team was defeated, with 28.09 percent of the votes.

Charles Yeo reached national prominence following the RP's constituency broadcast for Ang Mo Kio GRC.

Charles Yeo's attempt became viral due to his non-fluency and unconventional phraseology in Mandarin, something which sparked many internet memes and even drew praise from the Prime Minister's wife Ho Ching.

Charles Yeo was called to the bar in 2016, and works as a criminal defence lawyer.

Charles Yeo was arrested on 12 January 2022 by the Singapore Police Force for alleged offences of criminal breach of trust and forgery.

Charles Yeo claimed that the arrest was conducted unprofessionally, and that the charges were "entirely trumped up and false", which the police categorically denied that the arrest was "politically motivated".

The arrest was part of an investigation against Whitefield Law Corporation, where Charles Yeo had been working at as a criminal defence lawyer.

Charles Yeo did not return to Singapore and had not surrendered his passport to the investigation officer by 1 August 2022.

Charles Yeo did not turn up to represent a client in trial on 1 August 2022.

The Singapore police issued a gazette to arrest Charles Yeo for breaching the conditions of his bail.