sentences:  When the Cathay building was completed in 1939, it was the first skyscraper in Singapore before the war and the signature building of Cathay Organisation.When Singapore was occupied by the Japanese, Loke evacuated to India and, during the war years there, started a Chinese restaurant in Bangalore.On the liberation of Singapore, Loke returned in 1946 whereupon she was presented with a plaque by Lord Louis Mountbatten commemorating his occupancy of the Cathay Building.