Sumiko Tan is the news editor of the Home Section for The Straits Times

The Straits Times

The Straits Times is an English language daily broadsheet newspaper based in Singapore currently owned by Singapore Press Holdings . It is the country's highest-selling paper, with a current daily circulation of nearly 400,000...

, a Singapore-based broadsheet newspaper. She was formerly the editor of The Sunday Times and magazines team.

Tan's father is Chinese

Chinese people

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 Teochew

Teochew people

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 and her mother is Japanese

Japanese people

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. She completed her GCE 'A'-Level education at Anglo-Chinese Junior College

Anglo-Chinese Junior College

Anglo-Chinese Junior College in Singapore opened in 1977 and is the junior college arm of the Anglo-Chinese School family of Methodist schools. ACJC offers the standard two-year pre-university programme, with students taking the GCE 'A' Levels in their second year...

 in 1981, after which she completed her undergraduate education at the National University of Singapore

National University of Singapore

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Tan married her junior college school mate, Quek Suan Shiau, an electrician and chess teacher based in Wales

Wales

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, United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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, in 2010.