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Senior Columnist @straits_times. I write mostly about China and its relations with the world. Formerly The Straits Times' China Bureau Chief. dawntan@sph.com.sg
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When online outrage gets in the way of Beijing’s diplomatic outreach

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By Tan Dawn Wei Verified
| The Straits Times Verified
The Chinese Embassy in India recently did something unusual – it reproduced a commentary from a state-backed news outlet urging Chinese netizens to approach India “rationally”. This came after a spate of xenophobic videos portraying Indians as uncivilised swept across the Chinese internet, coincidentally around the same time that videos falsely claiming Singapore had been overrun by Indians surfaced on the same platforms.
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The post-Speak Mandarin question the Dear You saga has raised

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By Tan Dawn Wei Verified
| The Straits Times Verified
More than 10 questions from MPs across both sides of the House were devoted to a single issue in Parliament on July 7: whether Singapore’s policy on dialect films still makes sense nearly 50 years after the Speak Mandarin Campaign began. The trigger was Dear You, the Teochew-language film whose limited release reignited debate over the longstanding restriction on dialect films. The questions by the MPs pointed in the same direction: Has the official thinking about dialects changed?
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It took 400 unpaid workers before the alarm was sounded

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By Tan Dawn Wei Verified
| The Straits Times Verified
In March 2025, advocacy group Transient Workers Count 2 (TWC2) received a text from a migrant worker who had not been paid for a month by his employer, KPA Engineering. Another worker came forward in May. Another in June. One said he had never once been paid on time since joining the company. More emerged over the following year, and each was advised to file salary claims with the Tripartite Alliance for Dispute Management (TADM).
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