​AUDREY CHIN 

Dining in the dark and another door of perception opened

Yeo Wei Wei has just reviewed my short story collection Heart Nine Cuts in The Straits Times Book Page.

This year, on Palm Sunday, I went to Lee Kuan Yew's funeral

Roots are a gift, but homelessness gives us different opportunities

It may be unfashionable but I’m shouting it out anyway –  It’s good being a daughter of Singapore. It’s something to be immensely...

On the 7th day HE rested. I need a rest. So does my kid. It’s been a little too much – the travels, the back-to-back meetings the week...

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

I spent February 12, Myanmar’s Union Day, among the Karen. Union Day celebrates the signing of the Panglong Agreement between the...

Here’s National Critics Choice’s video of the book chat about As the Heart Bones Break at Select Books https://oddznns.wordpress.com/2013...

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

For me, Constance Singam the Singapore feminist and civil society activist, is the epitome of true grit Brought up in a patriarchal South...

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’re just back from remote Lugu Lake, Yunnan China where my friend Choo Wai Hong traded in her high-flying high-stress corporate...

I am a sucker for romance and Dalat is a romantic, if kitschy, city. It’s main lake, Ho Xuan Huong, is named after Vietnam’s most famous...

The best made holiday plans can be upset. Weather, short-staffed inn-keepers and unforeseen road closures can conspire to turn an...

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...

Where did July go? It’s been more than half a month since I last posted! It’s more a case of where I’ve been, I guess … In Queensland,...

Christianity and Feminism should not and are not at odds. Here’s a great affirmation about Christianity and Feminism from Sarah Bessey at...

My friend Kathleen Caron, who blogs at {full of life} soul food, interviewed me this week. The secret of giving a good interview is the...

We caught up at lunch last week to talk about her latest heart task. “I am a Singaporean Malay Muslim woman,” Saleemah told me. “The...