THE AWARE SAGA: Three weeks in hot seat

May 3, 2009

THE AWARE SAGA

Three weeks in hot seat

She joined Aware to make a 'quiet contribution' but her term as president was anything but quiet

By Sumiko Tan, Sunday Times Editor
		Ms Josie Lau sharing an intimate moment with her husband, DrAlan Chin, after she and her executive committee stepped down late last night. -- ST PHOTO: CAROLINE CHIA

SHE did not join Aware to be its president, but as things turned out, she had to step into the hot seat. And hot it definitely was. In her brief 17 days as chief, she received death threats, was publicly rebuked by her employer and was subjected to Internet abuse calling her a liar and a puppet - to quote some of the tamer labels.

On Saturday night DBS Bank vice-president Josie Lau and the six remaining members of her five-week-old executive committee bowed out after losing a vote of no confidence at the Aware extraordinary general meeting.

They handed back the leadership of Aware to the veterans who founded and ran the women's advocacy group for 25 years before the newcomers seized the reins in March. I met Ms Lau at the Four Seasons lounge last Wednesday, before Saturday's dramatic turn of events.

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