Author Archives: Michelle Toh

Michelle is an intern web reporter for The Christian Science Monitor. Her work has appeared in USA Today, The Huffington Post, Global Post, The South China Morning Post, Fusion, and Harper's Bazaar, among others. She is a recent graduate of the University of Southern California with a concentration in journalism and political science.

Data tour: education attainment among Asian Americans

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Six lessons in management from BuzzFeed’s Publisher, Dao Nguyen

On role models and challenges.

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Why Chinese students keep flocking to US universities

Growing up in the central province of Hubei, Xiao Da Wei never once considered staying in China for university. Xiao, a 23-year-old civil engineering major, is one of the more than 225,000 Chinese students pursuing higher education in America, according ...

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Why Democracy isn’t for everyone, at least in Singapore

When Singapore’s founding prime minister Lee Kuan Yew died this March, questions rang out across the globe. Was this the end of an era?  More specifically, as an international student from neighboring Malaysia watching from abroad, I wondered: Would it ...

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