About Me

Toh Ee Ming is a Singaporean writer, journalist, dreamer, and explorer. She wanders the world in search of everyday stories, interesting people and beautiful moments.

She reports on stories related to social justice, environment, travel and culture. Her work has been published globally on news outlets like the Associated Press, Al Jazeera, Atlas Obscura, CNBC, Channel NewsAsia, DestinAsian, Fair Planet, Jom, The Straits Times, The Peak magazine, A+ Singapore, South China Morning Post, Southeast Asia Globe, SilverKris, Mekong Review, Tatler Asia, Rest of World, Wired UK, and more. A print junkie, she also contributes to indie magazines like Meantime, A Passion Thing and Lost.  

In the last decade, Ee Ming has written about endangered vultures deep in the Himalaya, historical preservation projects in Cambodia with National Geographic, slow living and natural dyeing in Yunnan, Peru’s potato guardians who protect the country’s rich food heritage, healing and hiking along the Michinoku Coastal Trail in northern Japan post-tsunami, Malaysia’s hidden gambling epidemic and regenerative farming efforts, Sweden's 24-hour childcare for single mothers and shift workers, to Finland’s creative senior living models.

Back home, she has dug deep into lesser-heard, hard-hitting stories on social inequality, disability rights and life on the margins.  Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, her long-form report on the psychological toll of isolation of thousands of migrant workers under lockdown received recognition by the International Journalists' Network.

Ee Ming’s ethos of solutions-based and social impact journalism translates to her client work. She has produced thought-provoking content for Disney (National Geographic branded content), and numerous charities and social service agencies like Allkin, Children’s Aid Society, Lien Foundation, Singapore Hospice Council, Movement for the Intellectually Disabled of Singapore, among others.

Ee Ming is also passionate about the arts and the community.  In 2019, she was invited onboard as journalist-in-residence and arts facilitator by non-profit arts group Superhero Me, where she produced longform stories on the special needs community at Rainbow Centre. Her other volunteer stints include equine-assisted therapy with youth- at-risk at Herd Singapore, Rainbow Centre’s Good Life Befrienders Programme, Advocates for Refugees and the Angkor Photo Festival & Workshops in Siem Reap, Cambodia, as well as working in rice farms and horse ranches in Peru and Japan.

In 2023, Ee Ming produced her award-winning debut documentary Lady! which was supported by Lien Foundation and The Majurity Trust. It charts the story of a devoted wife who wrestles to reclaim her sense of self as young onset dementia robs her husband’s identity.  Beyond gaining recognition in the United States, it was selected as the opening film for the 5th edition of Mental Health Film Festival Singapore, and has been screened at venues like National Library, National Museum of Singapore, Esplanade, Bloomberg, and major cinemas like The Projector and Golden Village.

She most recently wrote her own mental-health themed illustrated book Hugo’s Journey.

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