Lee kim hua biography
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Abstract
Background:
Documentation of the voices of nurses provided valuable insight and a greater understanding of the nursing experience in Singapore.
Aim:
To record nurses’ experiences of journey of nursing yrke in the acute care setting in Singapore from the early days of formalisation of nursing education to today’s practice as a yrke with various specialisation and career tracks.
Method:
An oral history research approach was adopted, with purposive and snowball sampling to recruit nurses (both current and retired) who had trained in Singapore from 1956 which marked the beginning of the founding of the School of Nursing to current. Interviews were conducted with an interview guide. Thematic analysis was utilised to analyse the audio-recorded data.
Results:
The 54 participants with a range of 10–54 years of nursing experience were interviewed and they completed their nursing training between 1952 and 2006. Four themes were generated: essence of nursing, inevi
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Lim Goh Tong
Malaysian Chinese entrepreneur
In this Chinese name, the family name is Lim (林).
Lim Goh Tong (Chinese: 林梧桐; pinyin: Lín Wútóng; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Lîm Ngô͘-tông; 28 February 1918 – 23 October 2007) was a prominent wealthy Malaysian Chinese entrepreneur. He was the founder of Genting Highlands and renowned for transforming the resort from an unexplored hilltop into one of the world's most successful casino resorts.[1] According to Forbes, he was once the third richest man in Malaysia with a net worth of US$4.3 billion.[2]
Early life
[edit]Born in 1918 in Anxi, a mountainous county in southeastern Fujian province, China, Lim Goh Tong was the fifth child in his family. He had an elder brother (Jing Ya), three elder sisters (Lim Zhuang, Lim Bau and Lim See), a younger sister (Lim Mei) and a younger brother (Jing Kun). Lim was born into a rustic environment in a village. During that time, China was in a period of turmoil and unrest
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This story has been updated with input from her children.
KUALA LUMPUR (July 15): Lim Siew Kim, daughter of the late Genting Group’s patriarch Tan Sri Lim Goh Tong, passed away on Thursday (July 14), aged 73. At the time of her passing, she held the non-executive chairman post of London-listed plantation company, Anglo Eastern Plantations PLC.
Born in 1948, Siew Kim was the third child of Goh Tong and his wife Puan Sri Lee Kim Hwa @ Lee Ah Sang. Goh Tong died in October 2007, aged 89, while Kim Hwa passed on about a decade later in August 2017, at 88.
The couple had six children, with the three eldest being daughters Lim Siew Lay, Lim Siew Lian, and Siew Kim, while the three youngest were sons Datuk Lim Tee Keong (died a bankrupt in April 2014), Tan Sri Lim Kok Thay (currently runs the Genting group), and Datuk Lim Chee Wah.
Siew Kim was married to the late Dick Chan Teik Huat, who passed away in 2019, aged 82. Teik Huat was the older brother of the late Cha