Assertion: tan | /r/CapableOf | serve as defence minister
Facets:
value: from 1995
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Tan also noted that he had served as Defence Minister from 1995 to 2003, while Patrick Tan said that it was in 1988 that he been permitted by Singapore's Ministry of Defence (MINDEF) to disrupt his NS for premedical studies in Harvard University and an MD-PhD program in Stanford University under a President's Scholarship and Loke Cheng Kim Scholarship.