Kirsten Han

Kirsten Han is a Singaporean freelance journalist and activist, covering politics, human rights, and social justice. Her work has been published in the Guardian, Asia Times, Southeast Asia Globe, and the Diplomat, among others.

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Pastor Samuel Gift Stephen, the founder of the Alliance of Guest Workers Outreach, checks in with a security guard at a factory-converted dormitory as he distributes pre-dawn meals for Muslim migrant workers in Singapore on April 24.

Singapore Is Trying to Forget Migrant Workers Are People
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Workers' Party supporters in Singapore

Singapore Isn’t The Next Hong Kong
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Lim Zheng Jie Wo, 76, scavenges in a back lane of the financial district in Singapore on January 5, 2009. (ROSLAN RAHMAN/AFP/Getty Images)

Hollywood Has No Time for Crazy Poor Asians
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Young men browse Facebook on a street in Yangon, Myanmar, on Aug. 20, 2015. (Nicolas Asfouri/AFP/Getty Images)

Asia’s Authoritarians Are Big Fans of Regulating Facebook
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This photograph taken on March 29, 2015 shows Lee Wei Ling (2nd R), the younger sister of Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, along with family members walking out of parliament house during the late founding father Lee Kuan Yew's funeral procession in Singapore. Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on April 10, 2016 denied abusing his power and attempting to establish a dynasty as a family feud went public after the first anniversary of the death of his father Lee Kuan Yew. / AFP / MOHD FYROL (Photo credit should read MOHD FYROL/AFP/Getty Images)

Singapore Can Have Meritocracy or Aristocracy, But Not Both
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