Aug. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Singapore’s former Deputy Prime Minister Tony Tan won the island’s presidential election in a recount with a margin of victory of about 0.3 percent.
Tan defeated his closest opponent, Tan Cheng Bock, a former Singapore lawmaker, in the recount after his margin of victory in a four-way race was smaller than 2 percent. He garnered 35.19 percent of the votes cast compared with 34.85 percent for the second-place candidate. The president holds office for a six- year term. Full story
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