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Charmaine Sew is Southeast Asia Globe‘s contributor, based in Singapore. Growing up in Singapore and thus having been exposed to the social issues in her country, she takes a keen interest in stories related to inequality, youth and culture.
In a state where the government has a heavy hand, people are pushing beyond traditional notions of welfare, with community-organised groups emerging in the name of mutual aid to reach out to the people left behind by the city-state’s rapid growth By Charmaine Sew - May 07, 2021
Singapore is a country famous for having among the most rigorous education systems in the world. So when all its schools were shut in recent months as the pandemic took hold, student Charmaine Sew acquired a valuable life lesson of her own By Charmaine Sew - May 18, 2020