Kang Wan Chern
Deputy Business Editor
Wan Chern is deputy business editor at The Straits Times. She joined the newsroom in 2021 after returning from Myanmar. Based in Yangon from 2017 to 2021, she first ran the business desk of The Myanmar Times and later headed the paper, helping to see it through the Covid-19 pandemic, the 2020 general election in Myanmar and the coup d’etat in 2021. Wan Chern spent the first 10 years of her career as a financial journalist at The Edge Singapore. She is originally from Penang.
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