“Wealth … is the means by which we fulfill our desires.”
- Interview with Stan Davis & Chris Meyers, Harvard Business School Publishing
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Alvin Pang
Alvin PANG (poet, writer, editor, translator; Singapore) is a literary activist from the island city-state of Singapore in equatorial Southeast Asia, at the confluence of the world's great trade routes and cultural traditions. He appears regularly in major festivals and publications worldwide and his writing has been translated into over fifteen languages.
A Board Member of the University of Canberra’s International Poetry Studies Institute and a 2002 Fellow of the Iowa International Writing Program, he also directs The Literary Centre (Singapore), a non-profit inter-cultural initiative. Named Singapore’s Young Artist of the Year for Literature in 2005, he received the Singapore Youth Award for Arts and Culture in 2007.
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In my father’s head is a map of Singapore quite different from the ever-dancing web of abstract colours that we have come to know from the official records, the bus and train stations or the increasingly unreliable... media_text
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Until the age of thirteen he lived with his grandparents and their daughter – his father's elder sister – and her husband and only son, in a tiny three-room apartment that no longer exists. Until the age of... media_text
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Burning incense could cause cancer according to a scientific study conducted by researchers from Taiwan, who found high levels of carcinogens in the smoke of incense burned in Buddhist temples. media_text
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