‘Carrying on a legacy’: WP’s Sylvia Lim remembers her policeman-lawyer father 9 years after his passing
Lim Choon Mong first worked in law enforcement before returning to university and becoming a practising lawyer at 39, a path that his daughter would later follow in part.
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