Interview with WP's Sylvia Lim: Living a life of meaning

SINGAPORE - Ms Sylvia Lim's life has been an intrepid search for meaning. The Workers' Party chairman nearly dropped out of her National University of Singapore law degree course, unable to see how a law degree would benefit society.

Then, in her final year, driving down the Pan-Island Expressway, she saw a police officer directing traffic in the rain.

"That's how law can serve society," she remembers resolving within herself. She decided on a law enforcement career there and then, eventually becoming a police inspector, lawyer and then the first woman to be elected chairman of a political party in Singapore.

In an interview with Susan Long, she opens up on how her political education began as a child at the dinner table, her years in the opposition, and how she draws comfort from her Catholic faith in times of intense pressure.

For the full story, go to straitstimes.com.

Go to Singapolitics for more stories.