Mr. Lim Kim San

Another leader died on Thursday evening.

In 1960, Mr Lim agreed to chair the newly-set up Housing and Development Board (HDB) - a post he held for three years as a volunteer, never drawing a cent.
He is best remembered for tackling the chronic housing shortage, raising low-cost public flats in record time for the teeming masses living in kampungs and overcrowded city shophouses....
Mr Lim entered politics in 1963, winning the Cairnhill seat as a PAP candidate. He was made a minister, and in all, he helmed seven ministries before he left politics in 1980, including National Development, Finance, Interior and Defence...
He enjoyed a second career in the corporate world, first at PSA and then at SPH, where he was executive chairman and then senior adviser, from 1988 to 2005...

--The Straits Times
Friday, July 21 2006

Kind of scary how the older generation is dying off. Especially the leaders. And he was 89.

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