Mr Tharman, 66, is the son of Mr Kanagaratnam Shanmugaratnam, an emeritus professor at the National University of Singapore who was known as Singapore's "father of pathology".

SINGAPORE: Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam on Saturday (Sep 2) thanked supporters with pineapples - his campaign symbol - after a landslide victory to become Singapore’s ninth President.

The World Leaders Forum on Tuesday hosted a dialogue between Tharman Shanmugaratnam, president of the Republic of Singapore, and Fareed Zakaria, CNN host and the Washington Post columnist, in the Low ...

Tharman Shanmugaratnam warned of mass joblessness in the years ahead and called for worker education and training to be revamped. A global jobs crisis is looming — and here's how to tackle it, ...

Singaporeans have chosen Tharman Shanmugaratnam as their next president - but many would have let out a small sigh of disappointment as they did so. On Friday, the former top minister won a record ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Tharman Shanmugaratnam is a President for Singapore with five videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2011 Forum as a Finance Minister for Singapore ...

SINGAPORE – Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam is officially Singapore’s ninth president, having been sworn in about two weeks after his resounding win at the polls. Mr Tharman, 66, took the oath on ...