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SINGAPORE - Dr Yong Nen Khiong, a cardiothoracic and general surgeon who wrote a weekly wine column for The Business Times for 30 years, died at home on Monday (March 15). He was 93. Better known as NK Yong, he was found to have an aorta aneurysm two years ago, but did not have it operated on because of his age. Dr Yong is remembered for pioneering the first open-heart surgery in Singapore in 1965. In 1966, he was appointed foundation professor of surgery and chairman of department of the new Faculty of Medicine at the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur. He returned to Singapore in 1976 and ran a private surgical practice until he retired in 2004.

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