About

A journalist currently interning at Thomson Reuters’ Asia and World desks in Singapore, I was most recently based in Washington, DC, where I interned as a political reporter at the Tribune Washington Bureau covering mainly money and politics, employment and immigration stories for mainly the Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune.

I have also previously interned at The Straits Times and The Associated Press, both in Singapore, BBC News in New York and The Atlantic Monthly in Washington. An aspiring foreign correspondent, I have briefly reported from Siem Reap and Bangkok. In college, I also studied the politics of Thailand extensively following the 2006 coup in Bangkok.

I studied journalism at Columbia University and sociology at the National University of Singapore (NUS), where I was in the University Scholars Programme. For my senior thesis, I researched the social history of political dissent in post-colonial Singapore — a process that involved interviewing subjects in Boston and Kuala Lumpur. Born and raised in Singapore, I founded The Campus Observer as a rising college junior in NUS. Campus Observer is the first online campus newspaper that is editorially independent in a country where the national media remains largely state-controlled.

I am into most things political and economic, particularly issues at the intersection of politics, policy and economics. I am always looking to find out how policy affect ordinary people and how it transcends borders. Proficient in Mandarin Chinese, I am currently looking for a job that would ground me in the rigors of business and economic reporting.