News editor / Singapore

Fast news.
Deep work.

Senior news editor and journalist with years of reporting, editing, and building teams across Asia.

A professional news editor with a laser focus on global business, innovation, and technology. Building the AI, consumer and workplace trends beat at Business Insider, with a focus on China and East Asia. Reporting from the cultural frontier of K-pop, games, and nerdworld.

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01 / In brief

Editor.
Reporter.
Builder.

I lead high-performing reporters, develop authoritative beats, and edit award-winning investigations and features. My work spans timezones from the US to Asia, and covers business, technology, and culture with equal rigor.

years of reporting and editing across fast-moving global newsrooms

Business Insider awards, including the 2023 All-Star award

02 / Selected reporting

Business, but make it interesting.

All bylines

Seventeen’s hot new JxJ unit are showing off their chemistry — with a little help from Pinterest.

Exclusive
K-pop × Platforms

How a team of game devs raised $4.5 million to build the next big thing.

Exclusive
Games × Startups

Inside the Critical Role global touring that’s defining nerdworld.

Feature
Culture × Business

He choreographed routines for BTS and Seventeen. Now he’s building AI for dance.

Exclusive
AI × K-pop

5 BI staffers who put AI agents to work share what worked and what went wrong.

Feature
AI × Work

03 / Experience

CV

Mar 2021 — now

Senior News Editor / Business Insider

Joined the Singapore bureau as its first editorial hire, moving from reporter to news editor within two years. Now leads Business Insider’s highest-performing international reporting team.

Established Asia-based coverage with a focus on China’s tech sector.
Helmed the Singapore bureau during the bureau chief's absence.
Directs reporters across fast-moving business, politics, technology, and innovation coverage.
Edited award-winning investigations and narrative features, including “Death on Savage Mountain.”

Sep 2018 — Feb 2021

Journalist / The Straits Times

Reported across the environment, crime, defense, investigations, and features desks. Produced exclusives and enterprise stories nominated for Story of the Year and Excellence in Journalism at the newsroom’s NewsComm awards.

ISEAS

Research Officer / Assistant Production Editor / ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute

Tun Dato Sir Tan Cheng Lock MA Scholar, awarded a full-ride scholarship for an MA at King’s College London.

Returned as Research Officer at the ASEAN Studies Centre and Assistant Production Editor of ASEANFocus.

Founded 2021

Founder & Editor-in-Chief / Atelier Arcadia

Founded Atelier Arcadia in 2021, editing and producing more than a dozen local titles, including four Straits Times bestsellers.

Fast news.Deep work.

Editor.Reporter.Builder.