Father based in S’pore reunites with firstborn after six months


Lim meeting his son for the first time in six months at the CIQ Complex in Johor Baru.

TEARS flowed when a father reunited with his six-month-old baby in Johor Baru after leaving him just a few days after his birth.

Eddy Lim, 38, who works in Singapore, said it had been painful for him to be apart from his wife and firstborn the past six months as he could not return to Malaysia because of the Covid-19 travel ban.

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