Here are some highlights of the work I’ve done over the years.

Books

Singapore Will Always Be At War. Epigram Books, 2025.
Author

We Are Not the Enemy: The Practice of Advocacy in Singapore. Ethos Books, 2024.
Contributor

The Singapore I Recognise: Essays on home, community and hope. Ethos Books, 2023.
Author
Translation (Traditional Chinese): 我所認識的新加坡：一位在地記者的參與及觀察. SpringHill Publishing, 2024.

Ridiculous: Untold Stories of Singapore. Function 8, 2022.
Contributor

The Silhouette of Oppression. Epigram Books, 2019.
Author

New Naratif: The First Year. New Naratif, 2018.
Editor and contributor

The Art of Advocacy in Singapore. Ethos Books, 2017.
Contributor

Features and Reporting

Parsing the shock announcement of Yale-NUS College’s impending closure. We, The Citizens, 31 August 2021.

COVID app triggers overdue debate on privacy in Singapore. Al Jazeera English, 10 February 2021.

A mother’s concern in a time of POFMA. We, The Citizens, 9 November 2020.

A perfect storm for an outbreak. We, The Citizens, 24 April 2020.

Reviews

Detoxification. Mekong Review, May 2025.
Ayam Buah Keluak and the Art of Writing: A memoir on living creatively by Josephine Chia
The Missing Anthology: Stories from Singapore’s Sex Workers edited by Vanessa Ho, Raksha Mahtani and nor

Welcome to drug country. Altering States, 23 April 2024.
Narcotopia: In Search of the Asian Drug Cartel that Survived the CIA by Patrick Winn

Holding the line. Mekong Review, May 2023.
How to Stand Up to a Dictator: The Fight for Our Future by Maria Ressa

Who is Auntie? Mekong Review, February 2023.
Ajoomma, directed by He Shuming

Op-ed/Commentary

We, the citizens, are no longer the same. We, The Citizens, 15 January 2025.

Opposition victories force a crack in Singapore’s carefully managed democracy. Foreign Policy, 14 July 2020.

Singapore is trying to forget migrant workers are people. Foreign Policy, 6 May 2020.

Want to criticise Singapore? Expect a ‘Correction Notice’. The New York Times, 21 January 2020.