Hazel Tang

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Hazel is a features correspondent at The Straits Times. She joined the newsroom in January 2024 after working as a tech reporter for a business-to-business media start-up in London and as a features writer at Rice Media. Her bylines have also appeared in Time Out Singapore, Metro UK and Towards Data Science. Before journalism, she worked in a cognitive science lab, where she honed her analytical skills and curiosity about people and their stories.

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Spirits of Singapore: Ghosts, history and the eerie allure of dark tourism

Some dark tours go beyond site visits and storytelling by adding hands-on experiences. The Spooky Tours at Dempsey Hill, for instance, invited spiritual teacher and psychic medium Ms Danielle Van de Velde to show participants how to communicate with the surrounding “energy.”

Empty shops, boarded windows: Has Holland Village lost its mojo?

ST20250530_202570400283/htholland/Taryn Ng/Hazel Tang// Generic of aerial view of Holland Village overseeing Lorong Liput, Lorong Mambong and Holland Village Market and Food Centre on May 31, 2025. ST PHOTO: TARYN NG

ATxSummit 2025: Meta V-P downplays fears over AI as critics raise alarm over online risks to youth

htfake29 - Panel discussion Protecting society in an always-online world. (From left to right) Alamelu Subramaniam, Assistant Chief Executive (Media Policy and Content), IMDA; Andy Parsons, Senior Director, Content Authenticity, Adobe; Baroness Jones of Whitchurch, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Future Digital Economy and Online Safety, United Kingdom; Simon Milner
Vice President, Public Policy for Asia Pacific, Meta; Professor Sun Sun Lim
Vice President, Partnerships and Engagement and Professor of Communication and Technology, Singapore Management University

Credit: Infocomm Media Development Authority

Safety measures can spur AI’s growth, not stifle it: Panellists

Professor Dawn Song (right) from the University of California, Berkeley at a fireside chat with Professor Simon Chesterman, senior director of AI governance at AI Singapore, at the Asia Tech x Singapore conference on May 28.

PAP’s Yip Hon Weng has plans for more elderly-friendly services in Yio Chu Kang SMC

The PAP's Yio Chu Kang candidate Yip Hon Weng with hawkers during a walkabout at the market at Blk 628 Ang Mo Kio on April 29.

Chingay Parade picture wins photography competition promoting multiculturalism

httong26 - Mr Goh Ngan Pin's winning entry "Multi culture diversity at Chingay"

ST PHOTO: Hazel Tang

Gan Siow Huang prepared for a tough election fight in Marymount

Minister of State for Manpower and Education Gan Siow Huang taking photos with residents at a Hari Raya celebration at Marymount CC on April 20.

GE2025: Opposition Singapore United Party unveils team to contest Ang Mo Kio GRC

Singapore United Party secretary-general Andy Zhu (centre) with the party's Ang Mo Kio GRC candidates (from left) Vincent Ng, Ridhuan Chandran, Norani Yunus and Nigel Ng.

Electric dreams: The curious tale of a Thomas Edison fan in Singapore

ST20250123_202511100466/htfan/Shintaro Tay/ Toh Chee Keong or CK with a functional direct current Victorian fan, which intended as a gift for Thomas Edison, the inventor of the modern light bulb at Tong Lee Building on Jan 23, 2025. Adorned with miniature replicas of Edison's inventions, the fan was more than a relic of the electrical age, it was also a gateway to the many stories and adventures that would shape CK's life as a collector for the next half a century.

Speak easy: Can AI and language learning apps really help you achieve fluency?

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(From left) Mr Qamar Tahasildar, 35, Strategy and Analytics Manager, showing Remembering the Kanji 1 book, Anki app, NHK Web Easy news website, and Duolingo app, outside The National Library on Sept 10, 2024.
Is it possible to learn a new language using just a language application? If not, how effective are these apps, what are their limitations and strengths, and most importantly, why are they so popular?
Mr Qamar Tahasildar, 35, Strategy and Analytics Manager, will show the different applications – Duolingo, Anki, Pimsleur - he uses to learn Japanese. He will also show the additional textbooks/he purchases to study Kanji; the adapted Chinese characters use in Japanese.
(ST PHOTO: LIM YAOHUI)

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