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Ho Ai Li

Assistant Life Editor

Ending pandemic blues: Hot springs, beach strolls and the arts in greater Melbourne

Book review: Haruki Murakami’s book on writing evokes sense of deja vu

Book stack: 10 reads to wrap up October

Book review: NoViolet Bulawayo’s Zimbabwean Animal Farm is a strange, glorious beast of a book

Friendships amid the pandemic: Why reaching out to friends is hard to do

Book review: The Interpreter's Daughter is a moving family memoir

Book review: Tasting menu of Chinese sci-fi, fantasy by female, non-binary authors

Making Chow Yun Fat run for days: Veteran HK director Mabel Cheung on making An Autumn's Tale

Living in prosperous times: The spread of 'huat ah!' and its variants

Wang Leehom scandal: Will the singer Kiss Goodbye to his career?

From vampiric to vulnerable - how foreigners are portrayed in Singapore films

'Tainted celebrities': What's behind China's crackdown on the entertainment industry?

Football: A lover of The Beautiful Game grudgingly pays to watch it

Book review: The Lamplighters is an atmospheric lighthouse whodunnit

7 life lessons from Chinese reality show Sisters Who Make Waves

Ox-ymorons and other moo-sings in the Year of the Ox

Book review: Tamil novel about 1960s Sembawang teems with life

Book review: An incisive look at campus racism

Work from hotel: Resisting the call of the bed, bathtub, and views of Marina Bay at Fullerton Hotel

Telemad: Go Ahead and Nothing But Thirty are among the hottest Chinese dramas to catch

Book review: Breasts And Eggs takes a crack at defining womanhood

Telemad: Tears and secrets on local talk show Hear U Out; engaging odd couple on K-drama Stranger

Film and TV Picks: Asian Film Archive's For The Record, Korean drama Graceful Friends, and more

Telemad: A Quest To Heal, Graceful Friends - Asian dramas that leap between past and present