<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR>Who says Peesai lacks talents?
Sep 8, 2008
</TR><!-- headline one : start --><TR>He found calling in war zone <!--10 min-->
</TR><!-- headline one : end --><TR>His weapon of choice: An arsenal of at least 10 languages </TR><!-- Author --><TR><TD class="padlrt8 georgia11 darkgrey bold" colSpan=2>By Sujin Thomas
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"-->AS A boy, Mr Kevjn Lim got into so many scrapes that he landed up in Boys' Town, a home for delinquents.
Now 29, Mr Lim is still involved in scrapes - other people's. More specifically, between the Israelis and Palestinians in the disputed West Bank.
He also speaks Mandarin now - a language he used to flunk - as well as Hebrew and at least eight other tongues.Mr Lim is the only Singaporean war zone delegate of the Geneva-based International Committee of the Red Cross. Read Sujin's full story in Tuesday's edition of The Straits Times.
Sep 8, 2008
</TR><!-- headline one : start --><TR>He found calling in war zone <!--10 min-->
</TR><!-- headline one : end --><TR>His weapon of choice: An arsenal of at least 10 languages </TR><!-- Author --><TR><TD class="padlrt8 georgia11 darkgrey bold" colSpan=2>By Sujin Thomas
</TD></TR><!-- show image if available --></TBODY></TABLE>
<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"-->AS A boy, Mr Kevjn Lim got into so many scrapes that he landed up in Boys' Town, a home for delinquents.
Now 29, Mr Lim is still involved in scrapes - other people's. More specifically, between the Israelis and Palestinians in the disputed West Bank.
He also speaks Mandarin now - a language he used to flunk - as well as Hebrew and at least eight other tongues.Mr Lim is the only Singaporean war zone delegate of the Geneva-based International Committee of the Red Cross. Read Sujin's full story in Tuesday's edition of The Straits Times.
