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NK & Melina Yong
Dr N K Yong joined the International Wine and Food Society (IWFS), Singapore in 1982, and was chairman of the Council of Management of the IWFS from October 1992 to October 1996. He is also currently the honorary secretary of Asian-Pacific Zone Committee (APZC) and editor of the APZC newsletter.
For his distinguished service to the IWFS, Dr Yong was awarded the Andre Simon Silver Medal of the Society in November 1989 and the Andre Simon Gold Medal in April 1998. He was conferred the award of Officier de l’Ordre du Merite Agricole by the French Government in December 1989. Dr Yong was admitted into the Confrerie des Chevaliers du Tastevin of Burgundy in 1988 and into the Commanderie du Bontemps de Medoc et des Graves in Bordeaux, as well as the Jurade de Saint-Emilion, Saint-Emilion in June 1989. His most recent achievement was that he was awarded Officier de L’Ordre National Du Mérite.