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Mar 11, 2021 · Singapore’s first First Lady. She was just 26 years old when, in December 1959, she was thrust into the role of First Lady of Singapore. The shy, soft-spoken housewife, whose formal education had stopped in primary school, spoke no English.
Mar 24, 2018 · Puan Noor Aishah was just 26 when her husband became president in December 1959. Now 84, she was among 12 women inducted into the Hall of Fame on Saturday (Mar 24).
Jul 19, 2017 · SINGAPORE - After Japanese troops invaded Penang in 1941, Puan Noor Aishah left primary school, and learnt instead to cook and sew to supplement her family's income. Read more at...
Mar 23, 2018 · SINGAPORE - Puan Noor Aishah, the wife of Singapore's first President Yusof Ishak, will be inducted into the Singapore Women's Hall of Fame. The 84-year-old - whom Prime Minister Lee Hsien...
Noor Aishah binti Mohammad Salim DUBC (born 21 May 1933) is the widow of former President, Yusof Ishak . She took the role as Spouse of the President of Singapore between 1965 and 1970.
Now in her eighties, Puan Noor Aishah will on Saturday 24 March be inducted to the Singapore Women’s Hall of Fame (SWHF) at a gala dinner at Shangri-La Hotel. She will be presented with The Flame, the SWHF trophy, by President Halimah Yacob, who is patron of the Singapore Council of Women’s Organisations.
Noor Aishah Mohammad Salim was all of 26 years old when she became Singapore's First Lady in 1959 as the wife of Yusof Ishak, Singapore's Yang di-Pertuan Negara and later first President. In an instant, this shy, quiet girl who grew up in Penang was catapulted into the public limelight and into the role of 'mother' to a new state and nascent ...
