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http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking+News/Singapore/Story/STIStory_434993.html
FORMER Association of Women for Action and Research (Aware) president Josie Lau has quit her job at DBS.
She started work last Thursday at property group Overseas Union Enterprise (OUE) as vice-president for centre management at Mandarin Gallery. Slated to reopen in December, it is undergoing a $200 million facelift to transform it into a high-end shopping mall.
In an e-mail reply to The Sunday Times, the 48-year-old skirted questions on whether a public rebuke in April by DBS - for taking on the top post at the women's advocacy group despite being told not to - was linked to her decision to leave the bank.
She was vice-president for consumer banking group, cards and unsecured loans at DBS.
She made headlines earlier this year when she led a group - comprising mostly Christian women from the Church of Our Saviour - to take over Aware.
They were accused of dragging religion into civil society and were voted out two months later in a stormy extraordinary general meeting. In her e-mail, Ms Lau said she had been looking for new career opportunities for the past two years.
'I'd been working with DBS for almost six years. By credit card industry standards, this is a long stint,' she said.
She added that the offer by OUE was 'simply too attractive to decline' and the decision to take up the new job was made easier because she knows the group's chief executive, Mr Thio Gim Hock.
He is married to Dr Thio Su Mien, a senior lawyer and 'feminist mentor' who had encouraged Ms Lau, and several other women, to take over Aware earlier this year.
Ms Lau is married to Dr Thio's nephew, Dr Alan Chin
FORMER Association of Women for Action and Research (Aware) president Josie Lau has quit her job at DBS.
She started work last Thursday at property group Overseas Union Enterprise (OUE) as vice-president for centre management at Mandarin Gallery. Slated to reopen in December, it is undergoing a $200 million facelift to transform it into a high-end shopping mall.
In an e-mail reply to The Sunday Times, the 48-year-old skirted questions on whether a public rebuke in April by DBS - for taking on the top post at the women's advocacy group despite being told not to - was linked to her decision to leave the bank.
She was vice-president for consumer banking group, cards and unsecured loans at DBS.
She made headlines earlier this year when she led a group - comprising mostly Christian women from the Church of Our Saviour - to take over Aware.
They were accused of dragging religion into civil society and were voted out two months later in a stormy extraordinary general meeting. In her e-mail, Ms Lau said she had been looking for new career opportunities for the past two years.
'I'd been working with DBS for almost six years. By credit card industry standards, this is a long stint,' she said.
She added that the offer by OUE was 'simply too attractive to decline' and the decision to take up the new job was made easier because she knows the group's chief executive, Mr Thio Gim Hock.
He is married to Dr Thio Su Mien, a senior lawyer and 'feminist mentor' who had encouraged Ms Lau, and several other women, to take over Aware earlier this year.
Ms Lau is married to Dr Thio's nephew, Dr Alan Chin
