Khee Liang Phoa

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Khee Liang Phoa, born in Rotterdam on May 3, 1955, is a Dutch politician, secretary of state for emancipation and family affairs in the first Balkenende cabinet (2002-2003).

He succeeded, on behalf of the List Pim Fortuyn, secretary of state Philomena Bijlhout who had to resign a few hours after her designation following revelations about her militiaperson past in Suriname.

He was not included in the second Balkenende cabinet in May 2003 and got a public allowance for 2,5 year as former government member during less than 9 months (September 2002 - May 2003). He used it to look after his Chinese roots and study Chinese at the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications in 2004-2005, and still lives and works in Beijing since then^[1].