Steve Chia Kiah Hong is a Singaporean politician.
15 Facts About Steve Chia
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Steve Chia was previously a Non-Constituency Member of Parliament between 2001 and 2006 of the 10th Parliament of Singapore.
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Steve Chia withdrew from contesting in MacPherson SMC during the 2015 general election after he received online criticism for pushing the NSP to contest in a three-cornered fight in MacPherson against the PAP and the opposition Workers' Party.
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Steve Chia left the NSP and joined the SPP in 2018 and became the party's secretary-general in the following year.
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Steve Chia joined the party around the end of 1994 and gradually rose to the position of the party's assistant secretary-general and eventually secretary-general.
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In June 2001, the NSP, under Steve Chia's leadership, joined three other opposition parties to form the Singapore Democratic Alliance.
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At the time, the 30-year-old Steve Chia was the youngest parliamentarian.
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Steve Chia claimed in a 2020 interview with Mothership that he asked the highest number of questions among all the Members of Parliament in the 10th Parliament.
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The NSP withdrew from the SDA in 2007, so Steve Chia contested under the NSP banner during the 2011 general election, this time in Pioneer SMC.
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On 22 August 2015, Steve Chia released a statement on Facebook announcing that he had decided not to contest in the 2015 general election because he had received a lot of online criticism for pushing the NSP to renege on its deal to avoid a three-cornered fight in MacPherson SMC.
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Steve Chia eventually left the NSP and joined another opposition party, the Singapore People's Party, and became its organising secretary.
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Steve Chia was elected secretary-general of the SPP on 5 November 2019.
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Steve Chia resigned from his positions as NSP secretary-general and SDA executive council member to save the NSP and SDA from further embarrassment, but remained a NCMP.
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In 2006, Steve Chia was fined for driving his car across a traffic junction when the red light was on, resulting in a crash with a bus.
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Steve Chia met his wife, Chee, during a trip to climb Mount Ophir when they were both studying at the National University of Singapore in the early 1990s.