Speakeasy with Jayasankaran

S. Jayasankaran

11-Apr-15 09:00

Recently retired journalist S. Jayasankaran gives us a birds-eye view of his career with anecdotes of interviews and encounters with Malaysian movers and shakers. With a degree in bio-chemistry, Jaya stumbles into journalism going from the New Straits Times, to the now defunct Far Eastern Economic Review and ending his long career in Singapore's Business Times. He now contributes a regular humour column to The Star.

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