Steve Chia

In his youth, Chia was a delinquent who had vandalised school property and had been sent to a boys' home and placed under probation. After that, he went to junior college, where he was a student councillor. While serving his National Service, he got into the Officer Cadet School and served as a manpower officer in a reserve unit of the Singapore Armed Forces. After completing his National Service, Chia read psychology and philosophy at the National University of Singapore (NUS). During his time in NUS, he was active in student politics and was elected president of the 15th NUS Student Union in this third year. ==Personal life==

Chia met his wife, Doreen Chee, during a trip to climb Mount Ophir when they were both studying at the National University of Singapore in the early 1990s. They married in 1996 ==Political career==

1997 General Election After graduating from NUS in 1994, Chia met Tan Chee Kien, the president of the opposition National Solidarity Party (NSP). He joined the party around the end of 1994 and gradually rose to the position of the party's assistant secretary-general During his term as a NCMP from 5 November 2001 to 18 April 2006, Chia posed questions in Parliament on various issues, including National Service, HDB flats for singles, bus and train fare subsidies, and organ transplants. Chia claimed in a 2020 interview with Mothership that he asked the highest number of questions among all the Members of Parliament in the 10th Parliament. During the 2020 general election, Chia along with Williamson Lee, Melvyn Chiu and Osman Sulaiman contested in Bishan–Toa Payoh GRC against the PAP team of Ng Eng Hen, Chong Kee Hiong, Chee Hong Tat and Saktiandi Supaat. The SPP team lost with 32.77% of the vote against the PAP team's 67.23%. 2025 General Election In the 2025 General Election, Chia led a four-man team consisting of himself, Melvyn Chiu, Lim Rui Xian and Muhammad Norhakim at Bishan-Toa Payoh GRC, in a straight-fight against the incumbent PAP team led by then-Minister for Transport Chee Hong Tat. However, the SPP team lost, securing just 24.82% of the vote, or 21,944 votes. ==Controversies==

2003 nude photo scandal In 2003, Chia's wife Doreen Chee, who was then pregnant with their first child, made a police report against her husband, alleging that he had molested their Indonesian domestic helper. The report came after she discovered photos of him and their helper, both naked, in the recycle bin of his computer. Their helper told the police that she was not forced into posing for the pictures, while Chia publicly admitted to taking the photos, confessing that he had an interest in nude photography. Chia also resigned from his positions as NSP secretary-general and SDA executive council member to save the NSP and SDA from further embarrassment, but remained a NCMP. 2006 driving incident In 2006, Chia was fined for driving his car across a traffic junction when the red light was on, resulting in a crash with a bus. == Notes ==