Personal Life
A Roman Catholic, Yeo married lawyer Jennifer Leong Lai Peng in 1984. The couple have three sons and one daughter.
In 2004, their youngest son had a long struggle with childhood leukemia from the age of 3 and is well now after a bone marrow transplant at St Jude Children's Research Hospital. Recognising the difficulties faced by families in such situations, Leong founded Viva Foundation to help children with cancer, actively championing their cause.
Yeo is an avid jogger and participated in the Singapore Marathon 10 km run in the last 2 years. He has been learning Taiji for the last 2 years and calls himself "a bit of a Taoist by philosophy".
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