The Professor

Professor Lim Chong Yah's recently published autobiography gives a rare glimpse into the life and loves of the distinguished economist.

SINGAPORE (March 13): Lim Chong Yah points to the mantra scrawled across the whiteboard that hangs on the wall facing his desk. “Live well, love much and laugh often,” he repeats, when asked whether he would change anything in the past 84 years.

The cheerful, droll octogenarian is eager to talk about his latest book — an autobiography. It is selling so well, he says, that he does not even have his own copy. Published in January, the book chronicles much of his life during one of the most tumultuous periods in the history of pre- and post-independence Malaya and Singapore.

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