Name Sumiko Tan Spouse Quek Suan Shiau (m. 2010) | Role Reporter Books Home, Work, Play | |
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Sumiko Tan (born 1963) is the news editor of the Home Section for The Straits Times, a Singapore-based broadsheet newspaper. She was formerly the editor of The Sunday Times and magazines team.
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Tan's father is Chinese Teochew and her mother is Japanese. She completed her GCE 'A'-Level education at Anglo-Chinese Junior College in 1981, later describing her two years there as "very happy ones", and went on to attend the National University of Singapore. Upon graduating with a B.A., she began her career as a reporter at The Straits Times in 1985. In a 2013 article for The Sunday Times, Tan revealed that she had spent her entire life residing in the Kovan neighborhood., though the area was not popularly known as Kovan in her earliest years: "People called it the Hougang 6th Milestone in Teochew."
Tan married her junior college school mate, Quek Suan Shiau, an electrician an chess teacher based in Wales, United Kingdom, in 2010. Referred to as "H", he has featured in a number of Tan's newspaper articles.
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Sumiko Tan is the author of thirteen non-fiction books, including some co-authored:
