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Jun 9, 2010
ST reporter wins award
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Last night's award was Miss Sim's second Sopa win. In 2008, she won an award for Excellence in Special Issue or Special Section Reporting for her feature on Indonesian women who leave their homes to work as maids in unfamiliar countries. -- ST PHOTO: ALAN LIM
<!-- story content : start --> THE Straits Times (ST) continued its successful streak at the Society of Publishers in Asia (Sopa) Awards last night. Journalist Sim Chi Yin (right) received an honourable mention in the Excellence in Feature Writing category for her feature on how the trial of feared Khmer Rouge leader Kaing Guek Eav last year forced Cambodians to revisit the dark years that befell their country 30 years ago. Guek was the chief torturer at Cambodia's notorious S-21 prison.
The feature told of the ambivalence of Cambodians in living with and confronting their past. Miss Sim's award marks the seventh consecutive year that ST journalists had bagged awards at the premier Asian publishing competition. The 31-year-old correspondent with ST's China bureau, currently furthering her studies in the United States, was among those honoured at the annual Sopa Awards held at Hong Kong's JW Marriott Hotel last night.
The other winner from Singapore Press Holdings' stable was The New Paper's Lee Hup Kheng, 47, who won an honourable mention in the Excellence in Information Graphics category for his infographic on India's first $480 million sea bridge in Mumbai.
