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Ying Shan is currently based in Singapore. Graduated with a major in Sociology and Public Policy, she has a keen interest in anthropology and public affairs.
On the Malay Peninsula, a small community of Portuguese creole speakers survives almost four centuries since the southern Europeans were expelled from the region. On the brink of extinction, there are people working to preserve this rare language and culture
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Lee Ying Shan
- Aug 06, 2020
From pandemic conditions, to alternative media sources, e-rallies and 'trials by internet', Singapore's 2020 General Election campaign period has been unprecedented in many respects, as well as one of the most contentious in recent history
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Lee Ying Shan
- Jul 09, 2020
With Singapore looking set to hold its general election in July, rights group ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights have said that going to the polls during a pandemic will only worsen an electoral process already skewed in favour of the ruling People's Action Party
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Lee Ying Shan
- Jun 18, 2020
When Mount Pinatubo erupted on June 15 1991, it proved to be the second largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century, devastating communities and shrouding the Philippines in darkness for several days. Almost three decades on, survivors speak of the horrors of that day's events, and how it banded the country together
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Lee Ying Shan
- Jun 15, 2020
The nomadic lifestyle of the Moken people and their unique relationship with the environment has been encroached upon by governments and the modern world. But as the pandemic has taken hold, space has opened for these seafarers to return to the water
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Lee Ying Shan
- Jun 09, 2020
While the global pandemic has been devastating for economies and lives across the world, it has been undeniably good for the environment. As cities across Southeast Asia have shut down, air quality has steadily and uniformly improved – that is in all but one city
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Lee Ying Shan and Alexi Demetriadi
- May 27, 2020
As the global pandemic brings a halt to most human activity, many species of turtle are finally finding the breathing room to once again breed and repopulate. But it takes a community to save a turtle, and across Southeast Asia there are several networks fighting for nature's gentle giants
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Lee Ying Shan
- May 22, 2020
As social distancing measures have been implemented in Singapore, many businesses have closed and the economy has suffered. But along with the financial hardship, there's also a social recession going on, impacting the city-state's already isolated elderly hardest
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Lee Ying Shan
- May 15, 2020
