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Chin Soo Fang

Senior Correspondent

Soo Fang is a senior correspondent covering community, politics, social issues, consumer, culture and heritage. She first joined The Straits Times as a bilingual correspondent, where she had a column, Everyday People, in both English and Chinese. She left to helm corporate communications in several companies before rejoining the ST newsroom post-Covid-19. She was first drawn to journalism as a youth correspondent with Chinese-language daily Lianhe Zaobao during her schooldays.

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Galloping in harmony: CNY, Singapore-style

A horse sculpture decoration with other Chinese zodiac animals for Chinese New Year at the entrance of Chinatown Point on Feb 7, 2026. 

(ST PHOTO: LIM YAOHUI)

They’re 100 and full of life: Super seniors defy expectations at S’pore’s active ageing centres

(From left) Madam Lee Yim Leng, 105; Madam Sharada Chellam, 101; Madam Masna Unwari, 99.

$500 CDC vouchers for all Singaporean households in Jan 2027

The $500 of CDC vouchers will be split equally between participating heartland merchants and hawkers, and participating supermarkets, as with past tranches.

With constituency trips, MPs go the distance to build bonds with residents

Tampines GRC MP Baey Yam Keng (left picture; seated, centre) went on a trip with his residents to Legoland in Malaysia in December 2025. WP’s Hougang MP Dennis Tan (right picture; far right) went on a pre-Chinese New Year shopping trip to Johor Bahru with his residents on Jan 30.

Singapore courts young travellers with new campaign

A woman cycling past shophouses in Koon Seng Road in Katong, 12 April 2024. Peranakan shophouses in Katong and Joo Chiat provide a glimpse of Singapore’s past.

Singapore’s tourism receipts set new high in first three quarters of 2025

STB said it expects 2026 international visitor arrivals to reach between 17 to 18 million, and for tourism spending to reach between $31 billion and $32.5 billion.

Chinatown galloping into Year of the Horse with CNY street light-up

The Year of the Fire Horse begins on Feb 17, with Chinatown’s Chinese New Year celebrations running until March 18.

FairPrice freezes prices of chilled pork, popular seafood and veg ahead of CNY

ST20250131_202592400595/pixgenerics/Brian Teo/Generic of shoppers at FairPrice Xtra Jurong Point on Jan 31, 2025. Can be used for stories on supermarket, groceries, inflation, finance, economy, domestic expenditure, singapore gross domestic product (GDP), budget. ST PHOTO: BRIAN TEO

Step up efforts to support older workers, NTUC urges employers and Govt

Senior enrolled nurse Lilian Teng helps a patient who is getting out of bed after the PreSAGE Smart Predictive Patient Monitoring system triggered an alert during a demonstration at TTSH on Jan 28, 2026

ST PHOTO: Chong Jun Liang
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Embracing mother tongue, one book at a time: Reading clubs seek connection to culture

Members of the Maya Illakiya Vattam, a Tamil reading club founded in 2019, sharing their thoughts during the reading session at Woodlands Regional Library on Jan 11, 2026.