Former minister Lim Hwee Hua puts passion for public policy on paper

The latest feather in Mrs Lim Hwee Hua's cap is a book titled Government in Business: Leading or Lagging? ST PHOTO: MARK CHEONG
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SINGAPORE - Halfway through describing her current role, Mrs Lim Hwee Hua is stumped.

The youngest of nine children who grew up in a Singapore Improvement Trust flat, and rose to become the first woman here to be made a full Cabinet Minister, wears so many hats that she has lost count of them.

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