I am in the business of presenting and translating important yet complex ideas in ways that are interesting and compelling. By making connections and telling stories across multi-media platforms, my work is aimed at helping audiences understand the impact of these crucial ideas and the implications of these evolving realities on their lives.
In my current role as Assistant Foreign Editor at The Straits Times, I help to oversee and conceptualize coverage of South Asia, Europe, the Middle East, North America and Oceania. I report and write occasionally on global and regional affairs, drawn broadly to the nexus of money and power.
Previously, I was a China-focused reporter for Reuters and Bloomberg News, based out of Hong Kong and Beijing. I have covered the 2014 Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong, China’s state-owned enterprises, along with the financial markets and macroeconomic and industrial policy of the world’s second-largest economy at the dawn of the Xi Jinping era.
I also recently returned to journalism after a stint teaching senior high school English in Singapore.
In education and journalism, my career has been very much focused on the public interest, broadly defined. I am an alumnus of the Columbia Journalism School in New York and the National University of Singapore, where I was part of the liberal arts University Scholars Program and co-founded in 2005 the Southeast Asian city-state’s first editorially-independent campus online newspaper.