He was based in Beijing from 2008 to 2012, when he served as the China bureau chief of the Singapore daily. His new book, When the Party Ends: China's Leaps and Stumbles after the Beijing Olympics, offers an on-the-ground look at China's ascent and challenges after the 2008 Games. He is also the co-author of Struck by Lightning, a collection of essays on Singapore politics. The graduate of Columbia University in New York and the National University of Singapore lives in Singapore. He has won the Journalist of the Year and Young Journalist of the Year awards in Singapore Press Holdings. He is also the co-founder of Macular Degeneration Society in Singapore, a non-profit organisation which aims to build awareness and offer support to patients of the low-vision disease.