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How can we better identify and address adolescent self-harm risks?
How can we better identify and address adolescent self-harm risks?

It all began with paracetamol OD cases during my Covid-era paediatrics medical student clerkship, and a question about why we were seeing as many cases as we had. Grateful to KKH Children’s Emergency’s Dr Angelina Ang for guiding me in exploring the question and translating it into a study protocol that led to this piece in Annals.

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iEM clerkship book: new COVID-19 chapter
iEM clerkship book: new COVID-19 chapter

One of the projects I had the pleasure of working on during my ACEP/EMRA Global Emergency Medicine Student Leadership Programme (GEMS LP) mentee year was a new chapter in the latest iEM EM Clerkship Book on COVID-19.

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How has COVID-19 affected medically vulnerable patients in Singapore?
How has COVID-19 affected medically vulnerable patients in Singapore?

We wanted to help fill the gap of information about the effects of COVID-19 and its measures on the management of chronic conditions here. Understanding vulnerable non-COVID patients’ perceptions and experiences is an important aspect of having health systems remain vigilant and responsive to the needs of all. This also allows for the evaluation of COVID-19 related measures and can inform decisions to ensure adequate care and self-management for vulnerable non-COVID patients, who have come to be seen as casualties of an “invisible epidemic” of deprioritization.

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State of preparedness: A conceptual framework for Emergency Department design in a pandemic
State of preparedness: A conceptual framework for Emergency Department design in a pandemic

How can EDs function optimally when an infectious disease outbreak hits? COVID-19 spurred several EM clinicians to explore putting together a conceptual framework for ED design.

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An Ocean's fury: 10 years after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami
An Ocean's fury: 10 years after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami

I travelled to Meulaboh in Aceh, Indonesia, to document the lives of survivors 10 years after the earthquake and tsunami killed hundreds of thousands in the region. I also found out how some money from Singapore given in aid to the victims has been mismanaged, with a few projects incomplete or abandoned.

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Cruising in North Korea
Cruising in North Korea

North Korea in 2013 pinned its hopes of boosting tourism on a Singaporean-owned and -managed vessel which operated the only -- and first-ever -- commercial cruise within North Korea. I found my way over the Chinese border into the Hermit Kingdom, and took an exclusive look at the Royale Star.

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Startups see growing government support in Hong Kong

January 09, 2017 in the business times
Startups see growing government support in Hong Kong

How the city’s innovation and startup ecosystem has been bolstered in recent years by the growth in incubators, accelerator programmes and co-working spaces, and the enterprising Singaporeans here who have flourished

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Tags: startup, Hong Kong

Singapore-style tuition finds popularity in Hong Kong

June 19, 2016 in the new paper
Singapore-style tuition finds popularity in Hong Kong

Think the tuition culture in Singapore is bad? Welcome to Hong Kong, where some students are enrolled in private classes based on the Singapore syllabus at ages as young as two to get an early head-start.

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Tags: Hong Kong, education, photography, singapore

News reports help 'McRefugee' reunite with son years after going missing

April 16, 2016 in the new paper
News reports help 'McRefugee' reunite with son years after going missing

Feared dead for years, a penniless Singaporean mother who had been roaming Hong Kong's streets and spending nights in McDonald's outlets finally makes her way home through the help of news readers.

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Tags: Hong Kong, photography

Overseas S'porean voters -- disenfranchised and disenchanted?

September 12, 2015 in the new paper
Overseas S'porean voters -- disenfranchised and disenchanted?

Overseas voters, some of whom can't make it to the 10 allocated polling stations worldwide, call for electronic or postal voting, measures which other countries have long been practicing. 

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Tags: Singapore politics, Singapore election

Sex drugs openly sold in Geylang

May 31, 2015 in the straits times

How easy is it to buy illegal and often harmful sex drugs in Singapore? My colleague and I went undercover as buyers and conducted test purchases of these products sold openly -- and unlawfully -- in Singapore's red light district of Geylang

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Tags: drugs, crime, singapore, healthcare

A safe space for transgender people

May 17, 2015 in the straits times

A look at the birth of Singapore’s first transgender shelter amid challenges faced by the community

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Tags: lgbtq, singapore, sociopolitics, healthcare

Piracy in Asia on the rise

May 11, 2015 in the straits times

Why are vessels departing from Singapore being targeted?

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Tags: piracy, singapore

$135m remains unclaimed with courts, ministries

April 14, 2015 in the straits times

Dug once again into a little-known treasure chest of the Government made up of monies individuals and companies have forgotten to claim, and revealed a lack of accountability on the part of statutory boards which do not have to report how much of such monies they hold or use for their own purposes.

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Tags: unclaimed monies, accountability, singapore government

Calls for condos to lift ban on safety grilles

January 26, 2015 in the straits times

Certain condos in Singapore ban window grilles for aesthetic purposes despite concerns over child safety in high-rise residences.

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Tags: housing, singapore, safety

Singapore hospitals cease sex change operations despite demand

December 28, 2014 in the straits times
Singapore hospitals cease sex change operations despite demand

A look at how Singapore’s public healthcare policies have appeared to increasingly marginalise the transgender community.

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Tags: sociopolitics, transgender, communities at risk, sex change, lgbtq, oogachaga, healthcare
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