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Book progress update

Book progress update
November 3, 20170

How Kathleen Rushton put the steel back in me

Many things can get a girl down. How she looks. How much she earns. Whether she climbs the corporate ladder. Whether she cares for her children herself. Whether she has...

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Book progress update
October 19, 20170

An Interview with MacArthur ‘Genius’ Jason De León — Longreads

‘Anthropology is what people leave behind. It could be as recent as this morning.’ ‘Smugglers are complex human beings.’ To paraphrase this classically...

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Book progress update
October 12, 20170

A time to plant, and time to pluck up what is planted.

Thank you Susanne Timpani – I didn’t know this story behind Newman’s Nursery. I love the place and have lovely memories of enjoying high tea there surrounded...

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Book progress update
October 9, 20170

Rohingya in Singapore?

  BY THEOPHILUS KWEK Over 400,000 Rohingya have fled persecution in Myanmar since August, the latest episode in a cycle of conflict and displacement that has afflicted...

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Book progress update
September 8, 20170

Literature and Finance: a great combo?

What happens when you interview a 1987 Literature and Finance graduate from Xiamen University for your book? Well, you get a long reading list. Josie (not her real name) was...

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Rubble of Dr A's home and clinic in Syria
Asylum Seekers & Refugees
February 24, 20170

Creation and Destruction

  After my interview last week with a Syrian refugee, I went to my local library and borrowed all the books I could find on Syria. One of the books I borrowed was The...

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Asylum Seekers & Refugees
February 10, 20171

The Little Man Counts

Earlier this year, I stopped to read a commemorative board by a sandy footpath leading to Chapman’s Bar at Emerald Bay on Pangkor Laut. I learnt that the bar was named...

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Book progress update
February 3, 20172

Seeing life through the lens of death

Since moving away in 2001, I have returned to Malaysia and Singapore each year to spend time with family. As the years passed, I have noticed loved ones growing old, often...

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Asylum Seekers & Refugees
November 30, 20160

Eyes to See

Carmen grew up in Romania during the Cold War. With her young schoolmates, she used to pay homage to Ceausescu, chanting at rallies: Long live the President who gives us a...

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