Chua Sian Chin (Chinese: 蔡善进; pinyin: Cài Shànjìn; 26 November 1933 – 26 February 2014) was a Singaporean politician who held several ministerial portfolios of Health, Education and Home Affairs in the early era of Singapore.
[5] He also represented the Minister for Education Yong Nyuk Lin at the Commission of Inquiry on the Secondary Four Students’ Boycott in 1962.
He was also a referee of the Industrial Arbitration Court and served as chairman of the University of Singapore Council from 1967 to 1968.
Earlier, he had contested unsuccessfully as a PAP candidate for the Bandar, Malacca, seat in the 1964 Malaysian general election.
During his time as Member of Parliament, in 1975, Chua, then Minister for Home Affairs, proposed that the death penalty should be the mandatory sentence for drug trafficking of certain amounts to address the increasing rate of drug-related crimes, and these proposals were approved and passed in law.