​AUDREY CHIN 

Forty years on in Vietnam, where have all the young ones gone?

How do I keep faith when faced with the children of wartime rape?

Sometimes trips don’t start well My outbound plane to Myanmar left 15 minutes late. Then we circled for nearly an hour over fogged-in...

No pictures, just some words describing a scene while waiting for a flight in the domestic terminal at Yangon Airport. They were five ...

I was reading in Myanmar. It was my time, my panel appearance at the Irrawaddy Literary Festival with Canadian literary prodigy Karen...

Yesterday I posted a Reuters report about how the Rohingyas, stateless Muslim refugees escaping from ethnic violence in the Burmese state...

I meant to write a post today about Will Schwalbe’s New York Time Best-seller, The End of Your Life Book Club. Instead, I direct your...

What is Dystopia? Does the Road to Dystopia need to be made of dirt? Are our modern and comfortable societies already on the road to...

I thought I was a global person but it turns out I’m not … My novel As the Heart Bones Break is making its debut globally at Singapore...

Sarah Pannir’s spotlighting Marina Bay Sands today, the Mid-Autumn Festival I campaigned against this casino development. Since its...

I live in Singapore,  7,800 kilometres away from Syria and 15,400 kilometres from New York City. I’m black haired and under five feet...

We think of leprosy as an extinct biblical disease, it’s not. Photo credit: historyfish.net I knew about lepers. I’d seen them no longer...

Before going off to Australia, Heart Guy and I were in Vietnam. On an afternoon, we had lunch with some of the Mekong Delta kids we...

At 12 noon on Friday 21st June, the Pollutant Standard’s Index hit 401 in Singapore, the highest in Singapore’s history. The PSI, which...

Dear Readers, I love that you’re commenting But please! Don’t use the comments section as a soap box for your anger. I was so moved...

The elections are over in Malaysia. Sharon, as usual, writes eloquently about how necessary it is to remain united and dedicated to the...

Sometimes I’m overwhelmed by the scarcity and inequality I see on my travels. This is a wonderful practical 10 step guide to tackling...

Singapore’s 2013 budget certainly tries to give Singaporeans what they’ve been clamoring for: Stricter limits on foreign labour, carrots...

Since the US lifted the embargo on Myanmar last September, it’s become the it destination We’re going there in March and the trip’s been...

It’s about hearts The debate about the  Population White Paper has unsettled me It’s the week before the Lunar New Year. Normally, this...