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    Replacing statistics with narratives

    Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 05/11/2014

    » I spent my Halloween weekend shuffling between panels at the Singapore Writers Festival, listening to horror stories. I had been assigned to attend sessions on a variety of discourses, from jazz and poetry to writing about the female body. Instead, I found myself sitting front row at every session featuring Jang Jin-Sung, a North Korean defector, Loung Ung, a survivor of the Pol Pot regime, and Mukesh Kapila, who was the UN commissioner in Sudan as genocide in Darfur broke out. 

  • LIFE

    The giving team

    Muse, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 28/02/2015

    » Spend two nights in a pool villa on a private island for 40% of the listed price? Use that money to support a foundation that teaches children to swim by contributing to the renovation of toilets and shower facilities instead of simply paying the hotel? The gift of giving is now possible — and literal — with just a few clicks on socialgiver.com.

  • LIFE

    More than words

    Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 10/11/2014

    » In July, the National Library Board of Singapore pulled two books from the children's books shelves. One of them And Tango Makes Three is based on a true story about two male Chinstrap penguins raising a chick in Central Park Zoo. The other, The White Swan Express, mentions a lesbian couple.

  • LIFE

    By the Dear Leader's side

    Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 16/06/2014

    » Kim Jong-il owned a small white Maltese with a curly coat. He wore high heels with an inner platform. He couldn’t have been more than 1.6m tall without the shoes, even shorter than Napoleon Bonaparte. Contrary to the knowledge of the average North Korean, he did use the toilet.

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