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Thum Ping Tjin

Thum Ping Tjin
Thum delivering a lecture at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore on 17 September 2013
Born (1979-12-17) 17 December 1979 (age 45)[1]
Other namesPJ Thum
Alma materHarvard 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]

  1. ^ a b c "Thum Ping Tjin". Singapore National Olympic Council. Retrieved 20 September 2018.
  2. ^ a b "Pingtjin Thum". Project Southeast Asia. Retrieved 20 September 2018.
  3. ^ a b "Dr Pingtjin Thum". Hertford College | University of Oxford. Retrieved 25 February 2021.
  4. ^ "About Project Southeast Asia". Project Southeast Asia. Retrieved 20 September 2018.
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