Like Ismail Kassim, another Singaporean, Shirley Tong — who recently retired from GP Industries – has been investing good time and money to improve her knowledge of the Chinese language. Here she shares about the course she is taking and the reasons why:
My Chinese course is organised by the NUS Extension, a business unit of NUS Enterprise.  The [...]

China is seldom out of the headlines, whether in Singapore or elsewhere. This has been particularly so this week in Singapore, what with China President Hu Jintao on a state visit to the island city, his first since he assumed China’s highest office in 2003.
Further, there is the excitement created by the impending arrival of a pair of precious [...]

The following is a post created many years ago by Xingrencha’s sister, Daffydil, in memory of their dead father. The links to that post in English followed by a Chinese translation done by their cousin in Putien can be found under the Family links in the right sidebar of this website.
As some surfers in China [...]

Few Chinese born overseas and growing up in the 1950s to the 1970s would back then dream of reclaiming their cultural and other heritage. Because China was poor and Communist. It’s still Communist but it’s no longer poor as defined by the usual economic yardsticks such as GDP, savings rate and foreign reserves.
Hence many Chinese — who [...]

This is another guest post, this time by Peggy Tan, granddaughter of Tan Kah Kee (1874-1961), well-known both in Singapore and China – especially in Xiamen, Southern China — as an entrepreneur, philanthropist and educationist par excellence.
She runs Hagley & Hoyle, an advertising and graphics house with offices in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur. She is passionate [...]