She put Singapore on UN map

AsiaOne Diva – The Straits Times 11 March 2014 Dr Noeleen Heyzer, 66, is best known for putting Singapore on the United Nations (UN) map. In 1994, she became the first Singaporean to head a UN agency, the United Nations Development Fund for Women (Unifem), which...

No anger towards mum who sold her as a slave

AsiaOne Diva – The Straits Times 11 March 2014 Janet Lim's life story would make for a gripping television melodrama. Although she was born into a well-to-do family in southern China, life took a dark turn after her sinseh father died when she was eight...

The visionary educationist

AsiaOne Diva – The Straits Times 11 March 2014 The late Dr Ruth Wong, who has been described as a visionary educationist who transformed the training of teachers here, did not set out to be a teacher. >> READ FULL ARTICLE

A champion for the helpless

AsiaOne Diva – The Straits Times 11 March 2014 For someone who will start the first of 10 radiotherapy sessions for gum cancer tomorrow, Miss Daisy Vaithilingam is remarkably upbeat. "I've worked in hospitals and I come from a family of doctors. And I...

108 lauded on virtual Women’s Hall of Fame

AsiaOne Diva – The Straits Times 11 March 2014 On a wall at the Waterloo Street home of the Singapore Council of Women's Organisations (SCWO) are tributes to nine women who improved the lives of others here. Now the SCWO is expanding the wall by taking it...

Work on launch began 2 years ago

AsiaOne Diva – The Straits Times 11 March 2014 The virtual Singapore Women's Hall of Fame will be launched on Friday but work on it began two years ago. The ball started rolling when nine researchers from the Singapore Council of Women's Organisations...