From assembling her own CPU in the 90s to developing police cameras for HDB blocks, Khoo Ri Na of Evvo Labs tells CNA Women how her love for gadgets and her knack for problem-solving led her to develop tech solutions for national security and healthcare.
Caryn Lim found out she had endometriosis just as she and her husband decided to start a family. In the third of CNA Women’s True Grit series, she tells the story of her infertility journey, getting pregnant with her children through IVF and writing a children’s book to show her sons how they came about.
Tan Ming Li has made it her mission to help people talk more openly about death, in a way that she herself was not able to when she lost her mum at 17. At one of the events she runs, called Death Over Dinner, the food helps to facilitate meaningful conversations about dying and ultimately, also about living.
CNA Women turns the spotlight on women who have faced challenging times and overcome them. In this first story in our True Grit series, Singaporean Minna Lim tells how she created the Lovpipo dating app after her divorce to provide for her children.
Shazza, whose real name is Shareefa Aminah, is a local singer-songwriter who recently went viral on TikTok for collaborating with Canadian pop duo Crash Adams. She tells CNA Lifestyle about her experience with the band, how she began her music journey and her struggles as a musician in Singapore.