BORN 1938 INDUCTED 2017 CATEGORY Media & Entertainment THE HONOURED INDUCTEES TO THE SINGAPORE WOMEN’S HALL OF FAME Wong-Lee Siok Tin Standard setter for Singapore’s broadcast journalists Wong-Lee Siok Tin devoted her life to broadcasting. Joining the Ministry of...
BORN 1943 INDUCTED 2017 CATEGORY Education THE HONOURED INDUCTEES TO THE SINGAPORE WOMEN’S HALL OF FAME The Helen Keller of Southeast Asia Theresa Chan Poh Lin was 12 when meningitis took her hearing. Two years later she lost her sight. The daughter of a hawker and a...
BORN 1917 INDUCTED 2017 CATEGORY Business & Enterprise THE HONOURED INDUCTEES TO THE SINGAPORE WOMEN’S HALL OF FAME Pioneering bridal gown designer and entrepreneur It started as a hobby, then it became a small home-based enterprise, and by the 1970s Sylvia Kho...
BORN 1955 INDUCTED 2017 CATEGORY Media & Entertainment THE HONOURED INDUCTEES TO THE SINGAPORE WOMEN’S HALL OF FAME Rahimah Rahim Singapore’s first lady of song Rahimah Rahim was, it could be said, born to be a singer and performer. Her father, Rahim Hamid, was a...
BORN 1921 INDUCTED 2017 CATEGORY Advocacy & Activism THE HONOURED INDUCTEES TO THE SINGAPORE WOMEN’S HALL OF FAME Champion of animal rights She once disguised herself as a laboratory technician so she could find out how animals were being used for research in...
