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Steven Gan
Steven Gan (simplified Chinese: 颜重庆; traditional Chinese: 顏重慶; pinyin: Yán Chóngqìng; Jyutping: Ngaan4 Cung4 Hing3; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Gân Tiông-khìng; born 1962) is a Malaysian journalist known for co-founding and editing the political news website Malaysiakini (English: "Malaysia Today"), Malaysia's "first and only" independent news source.
In 2000, he was awarded the International Press Freedom Award of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).
Steven Gan was born in 1962 in Ketari, a small new village near Bentong in Pahang. Gan's father was a poor immigrant originating from the Fujian province of China, and worked as a bus conductor. His mother was a primary school teacher at a Chinese school. Unlike her husband, Gan's mother came from a relatively better-off Cantonese family.
Speaking on his childhood in a Malaysiakini interview, he described his father as being "quite dictatorial". At the age of 14, Gan ran away from home, living on the streets of Kuala Lumpur before he was coaxed back into his studies by his uncle. He would go on to receive a pre-college degree at a technical college in Perth, with the help of the same relative.
With ambitions of becoming an architect, Gan read architecture at the University of New South Wales (UNSW). His dream was to learn how to build "nice but affordable" low-cost housing from local materials such as bamboo.
It was at UNSW where he joined the Overseas Student Collective. He credited the collective with having "radicalised" him and pushing him towards writing. In 1983, he was elected the university's overseas student director.
He would go on to help form a state-wide organisation of overseas students, followed by a national organisation - with former Batu MP Chua Tian Chang (better known as Tian Chua) and former Bukit Lanjan state assemblyperson Elizabeth Wong.
The Overseas Student Collective focused on a number of matters related to "fees, racism, loneliness, and language".
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Steven Gan
Steven Gan (simplified Chinese: 颜重庆; traditional Chinese: 顏重慶; pinyin: Yán Chóngqìng; Jyutping: Ngaan4 Cung4 Hing3; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Gân Tiông-khìng; born 1962) is a Malaysian journalist known for co-founding and editing the political news website Malaysiakini (English: "Malaysia Today"), Malaysia's "first and only" independent news source.
In 2000, he was awarded the International Press Freedom Award of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).
Steven Gan was born in 1962 in Ketari, a small new village near Bentong in Pahang. Gan's father was a poor immigrant originating from the Fujian province of China, and worked as a bus conductor. His mother was a primary school teacher at a Chinese school. Unlike her husband, Gan's mother came from a relatively better-off Cantonese family.
Speaking on his childhood in a Malaysiakini interview, he described his father as being "quite dictatorial". At the age of 14, Gan ran away from home, living on the streets of Kuala Lumpur before he was coaxed back into his studies by his uncle. He would go on to receive a pre-college degree at a technical college in Perth, with the help of the same relative.
With ambitions of becoming an architect, Gan read architecture at the University of New South Wales (UNSW). His dream was to learn how to build "nice but affordable" low-cost housing from local materials such as bamboo.
It was at UNSW where he joined the Overseas Student Collective. He credited the collective with having "radicalised" him and pushing him towards writing. In 1983, he was elected the university's overseas student director.
He would go on to help form a state-wide organisation of overseas students, followed by a national organisation - with former Batu MP Chua Tian Chang (better known as Tian Chua) and former Bukit Lanjan state assemblyperson Elizabeth Wong.
The Overseas Student Collective focused on a number of matters related to "fees, racism, loneliness, and language".