Media platform offers eye on Singapore to Chinese nationals here

Madam Laura He, who hails from China's Sichuan province but is now a Singapore citizen, and her Singaporean husband Koh Chin Yee are behind media platform Xinjiapo Yan. She started writing about Singapore on Weibo, China's version of Twitter, in 2011
Madam Laura He, who hails from China's Sichuan province but is now a Singapore citizen, and her Singaporean husband Koh Chin Yee are behind media platform Xinjiapo Yan. She started writing about Singapore on Weibo, China's version of Twitter, in 2011 as a pastime. ST PHOTO: DESMOND WEE
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"Where can you buy second-hand books in Singapore?" two friends visiting from China asked Madam Laura He.

She had moved to Singapore from Beijing only two months before and the question threw her off.

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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on June 09, 2020, with the headline Media platform offers eye on Singapore to Chinese nationals here. Subscribe