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Thum Ping Tjin | |
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 Thum delivering a lecture at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore on 17 September 2013 | |
| Born | 17 December 1979[1] |
| Other names | PJ Thum |
| Alma mater | Harvard University (BA) University of Oxford (BA, MSt, DPhil) |
Thum Ping Tjin (Chinese: 覃炳鑫; pinyin: Tán Bǐng Xīn) (born 17 December 1979),[1] also known as PJ Thum, is a Singaporean historian, journalist, podcaster, activist and former swimmer. Thum was a national swimmer who participated in the 1996 Summer Olympics, and was the first Singaporean to swim the English Channel.[2][1]
He was a research associate and coordinator of Project Southeast Asia, a collective of scholars of Southeast Asian studies at Oxford, and is an academic visitor of the university.[3][2][4] He is a founder and manager of online journalism outlet New Naratif and creator of The History of Singapore podcast, which originally ran as a radio show on BFM 89.9.[5] His advocacy has led to a number of legal and public disputes with Singaporean politicians and authorities.[3][6][7]
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- ^ a b "Pingtjin Thum". Project Southeast Asia. Retrieved 20 September 2018.
- ^ a b "Dr Pingtjin Thum". Hertford College | University of Oxford. Retrieved 25 February 2021.
- ^ "About Project Southeast Asia". Project Southeast Asia. Retrieved 20 September 2018.
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