Koh Poh Koon is a coat tail MP and came in easily in good times (i.e. on a coat tail) when economy was doing well and citizens had good jobs.

 Family reasons is just an excuse to resign when the going gets tough.

I asked Google AI which companies are living to JB, below is appended the answer.

Koh Poh Koon is a coat tail MP and came in easily in good times (i.e. on a coat tail) when economy was doing well and citizens had good jobs.

Now, rent and business costs are high and companies are withdrawing for lower cost locations to operate abroad, just as Trump anti globalisation is not retreating. This obviously means a much higher workload for the minister of manpower to correct structural manpower issues- sacred cows and elephants in the room which needs to be handled as citizen favourite jobs migrate and difficult jobs with low pay and prejudiced by societal bias and ostracism cannot find any citizen employees except the foolish and reckless (e.g. PAP never upgraded rank and file construction jobs nor significantly improved their safety, so they are taken by foreigners and locals go jobless as their favourite employers pull out of Singapore due to high business costs issues).

That's why more and more PAP ministers of state, aka middle management, will resign because they were never real political leaders to begin with.

They never grew up from grassroots and cannot find the reason to fight hard for the country.

The GRC system is also unnatural and based on the Patronage system whereby cabinet is like a mafia organisation hq totally opaque and secretive in its deal making, so it's difficult for good, honest people to get close.

Probably Lawrence Wong is planning a cabinet reshuffle or Ng Chee Meng needs a position so a letter was circulated for those who wanted to resign from cabinet to do so early so a good PR campaign could be orchestrated without citizens getting surprised or alarmed.

It is also probably LW/PAP Exco telling all PAP MP that bottom line is they cannot resign as MP or face wrath of entire PAP party because it is known that one main purpose of GRC system is to abolish the inconvenience and accountability of a by-election which under GRC rules, will not happen under GRC system because of the high degree of secrecy and opacity the PAP is run on. By-elections are the nemesis of PAP which relies on dirty tricks like sudden declarations of snap elections, last minute election boundary declarations after massively gerrymandering the boundaries to set up a PAP victory, absurdly short campaign periods allowing such minimal depth of political debate that the issues usually revolve around blank promises and pork barrell politics which PAP inevitably wins because only they know what reserves are available as sweets. Massive grandstanding prevails and the elections are always called long before any political debate matures with a scaremongering PM always having the last word that times are dangerous and the incumbent is the only safe choice. By elections are totally different because usually, the PAP cannot delay them indefinitely and the election boundaries cannot be changed so all registered political parties can immediately begin discussing political issues from the day a qualifying parliamentary seat is vacated. PAP is extremely fearful of this situation to the extent that they invented the GRC system with it's subsequent going undemocratically overboard, abusing political authority by nearly doubling GRC sizes in parliament in massive political overreach and significantly diluting minority representation per GRC instead (1988: 13 GRC occupying 39 of 81 parliamentary seats, 3MP/GRC, 42/81 opportunity of by elections; 1997-2006 era, 14-15GRC of 5-6MP/ GRC, 9/84 opportunity for by-elections).

Opaque mafia operating in Patronage systems work this way, otherwise, there is no reason to invent the GRC system to effectively abolish the by-election system in the ~ 90% of parliamentary constituencies the illogical system now operates.

In a system run by the mafia, smoke and mirrors is always the standard operating procedure, by default, always....

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Numerous Singapore-based and multinational companies are moving or expanding their manufacturing and logistics operations to Johor Bahru (JB) to cut costs and capitalize on the Johor-Singapore SEZ. Recent high-profile examples include:

Gardenia Foods: Shifted its large-scale bread and bakery production from Singapore to JB.

Asia Pacific Breweries (Tiger Beer): Phased down large-scale brewing operations in Singapore to consolidate production in Malaysia and Vietnam.

Yeo Hiap Seng (Yeo's): Relocated local can-making roles and consolidated canning operations in Malaysia.

Archisen: An agritech firm that committed to developing a 200-acre smart indoor agricultural hub in Sedenak, Johor.

Agrocorp International: Built a plant-based food and dairy-free cheese processing facility in Johor.

Emplifi: A Singapore-based HR firm that launched co-working spaces in JB to assist other SG businesses in establishing operations there.

Sin Chew Woodpaq: A logistics and packing provider that set up a cross-border facility in Seri Alam, Johor, to support clients moving across the Causeway.

Companies typically keep their corporate headquarters, research and development, and quality governance in Singapore, while using JB's lower operating costs and incentives for large-scale production

Coat tails are so useful. Most parliamentarians enter on coat tails by the back door.

The Singapore political patrionage system was constitutionalised as the GRC system in 1988, less we forget this.

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Coat tails are so useful. Most parliamentarians enter on coat tails by the back door.

Even minister chan chun seng implicitly , in parliamentary debate, acknowledged the great honour of entering by coat-tails (the back door of parliament ) by saying that it would be unfair to these coat-tail MPs [I rephrase his speech here], that if a by-election were conducted for the entire GRC to replace the minority candidate who quit to run for presidency (Hallimah) or was sacked by party/ parliament (Raeesah Khan) because entering parliament on coat tails is more important than any electorate democratic mandate and more important than minority representation in parliament (note taken, minority parliament representation is more an excuse than the real purpose of the GRC system).

Nowadays, in order to increase the importance the of coat tails political patronage system, a majority of coat tails GRC MPs from a Parliamentary committee to select a few successful candidates under the coat tails NMP system, so even more PAP political cronies can also be (secretly) included in this political sponsorship/ patronage system vz the NMP system, as long as these ex PAP cadres tactically quit their PAP membership so that they look good to the coat tails GRC MP majority formed selection committee that they are PAP affiliated in heart but not name.

Everything smells like top down PAP orchestrated even if they make every attempt to obsfucate it. If the PM LHL knows one has an EMA (like Tan Chuan Jin as speaker) all the better because that allows the patron to implicitly blackmail the parliamentarian at anytime and destroy his political career, if he isn't sufficiently partial towards party interests but in a judiciously discreet manner, since by definition, the role of speaker of parliament is for the ruling parties most morally outstanding member (besides the PM/ sec gen), because he is supposed to be able to maintain the impartiality of Parliamentary discussions and not be  compromised by either an illicit extramarital affair (EMA) with a fellow parliamentarian or worse, the Prime Minister's knowledge of such an and both speaker and PM(/PAP sec general) keep it a mutual secret so they can have a mutual understanding to be most subtle about it whilst occupying the highest of political positions, whilst managing more and more delicate and sensitive political issues like questioning the integrity of opposition parliamentarians as well as ensuring that the coat tails premise upon which NMPs are admitted are sufficiently made less obvious to political analyst and media reporters.