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Chiang Mai

What makes a Southeast Asian?

NOTE: This piece is not written with the intention of promoting any particular argument. The intention is not to make any conclusions, but to be a beginning to what I hope will be a fascinating dialogue. Questions of identity h...
by Kirsten Han
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Speak Mandarin

The Language Woes of a Young Singaporean

he elderly gentleman smiled at me, gesturing to my name tag with his wine glass. “Oh, you’re a Han too, like me. You should come join the Han Clan, we have trips back to Hainan Island. You speak Hainanese?” “No, I don...
by Kirsten Han
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Art
SSO Christmas

Merry Christmas, Singapore Symphony Orchestra!

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by Kirsten Han
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Art
Love, Not Yet

Love, Not Yet: Film on teen pregnancies

Back in July, Love, Not Yet tried to make itself an online phenomenon. It did succeed, to some extent. Its Facebook fan page is titled ‘page samphan’, pronounced similarly to the Thai word for sexual intercourse, an...
by Chayanin Wipusanawan
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