Tan Kaiming

Kai Ming grew up in George Town, Penang. Watching container traffic shift between Penang, Singapore and southern China gave him his first sense that trade routes explain politics. He studied in Singapore, then spent his twenties moving between Jakarta, Taipei and Hanoi, reading local newspapers in three scripts and filling notebooks with the questions foreign coverage left unasked. He writes for readers who want the structure of a story before the noise around it.