Kimberly Lim

Asia–Pacific (APAC), Singapore

Associate Editor at Rice Media

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PAP bets big with Deputy PM in Punggol GRC to face Harpreet Singh’s WP team

2 days ago | msn.com | Kimberly Lim |Jean Iau

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Jack Sim Wants a Singapore Where We Sanitise Toilets, Not Critical Voices

2 days ago | msn.com | Kimberly Lim

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After the Vote: Jack Sim Wants a Singapore Where We Sanitise Toilets, Not Critical Voices

2 days ago | ricemedia.co | Kimberly Lim

Jack Sim (also known as Mr Toilet) has a success story that reminds us that even bathrooms can be battlegrounds for change. The 68-year-old failed his ‘O’ Levels, then went on to make good as a businessman, becoming a self-made millionaire at 29. Jack could have rested on his laurels, but he instead chose to become a philanthropist and social activist.
Shawn Lim on Holding Space for Singapore’s Queer and Neurodivergent Community

2 weeks ago | msn.com | Kimberly Lim
After the Vote: Shawn Lim on Holding Space for Singapore’s Queer and Neurodivergent Community

2 weeks ago | ricemedia.co | Kimberly Lim

At the age of 16, Shawn Lim had already been arrested twice. No stranger to detention and canings in school, he was even sent to a boy’s home at one point. Looking back on his tumultuous teen years, Shawn, now 33, theorises that he was acting out because he was “a queer kid in an environment that didn’t feel safe for softness”. Over the years, however, he’s come to realise that we don’t have to fit into boxes others create.
Stefanie Foo on How Singapore Can Address Gen Z's Job Woes

3 weeks ago | ricemedia.co | Kimberly Lim

When Stefanie Foo was a child, she wanted to be an actor. Today, the 23-year-old is a final-year Communications Management and Sustainability Management student at Singapore Management University (SMU). Like many other young people, she’s already had to make pivotal decisions about her future: What to study, what to aspire towards, which passions to indulge, and which to give up. But as graduation looms and she watches her peers struggle to secure full-time employment, self-doubt lingers.
The Wayfinder Who Revamped Singapore’s MRT Station Signs

3 weeks ago | msn.com | Kimberly Lim

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Lost in Transit: The Wayfinder Who Revamped Singapore’s MRT Station Signs

3 weeks ago | ricemedia.co | Kimberly Lim

In 2014, Samuel Lim, then a design communications student at LASALLE College of the Arts, noticed something odd on his daily commute. As he stepped onto the Outram Park MRT station platform each morning, he would see harried commuters going up a particular escalator, before coming back down again, clearly lost. “People would make a mistake at the exact spot. I saw it happen with tourists, the elderly, and even kids. Every demographic made the same mistake,” Samuel recalls.
What 'Mission' Did Goh Meng Seng Really Accomplish?

1 month ago | ricemedia.co | Kimberly Lim

GE2025 hasn’t officially kicked off, but campaign rhetoric aimed at splitting Singaporeans along ideological lines is already in full force. It all started, really, on March 3rd, when Goh Meng Seng, leader of the People’s Power Party (PPP), announced PPP would contest Nee Soon GRC to take a “principled stance” against the “LGBTQ agenda”. What LGBTQ agenda?
A Sociologist’s Unexpected Lessons From Running a Holland Village Market Stall

1 month ago | msn.com | Kimberly Lim

global.village.marketA snapshot of the village party! 💫🍄 A criss-cross of artisans, entrepreneurs, researchers, educators, dreamers, and a shared love for the extraordinary beauty of the everyday market. Thank you for being a part of it!What's the future of our markets? One stallholder expressed: "Markets in Singapore are in a danger zone. They will be phased out.