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Chan Ling Yap



Born in Kuala Lumpur, Chan Ling Yap was educated in Malaysia and the UK and has a PhD in Economics. She lectured at the University of Malaya before joining the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome, where she worked for nineteen years. Her last post was as senior rice commodity specialist and Secretary to the Intergovernmental Group on Rice.

On returning to the UK with her family, she trained as a fitness instructor and developed and taught her own exercise regime a combination of eastern and western disciplines. Her book, Fusion Fitness, was published by A & C Black in 2002 and by Hunter House (USA) in March 2003.

Chan Ling has always loved writing. While at the University of Malaya, she wrote two economic textbooks in Malay and published many papers on small-scale fisheries development. In FAO, she was responsible for reports and policy papers on rice and contributed to the Financial Times in the UK.
 
 
Novels
   Sweet Offerings (2009)
   Bitter-Sweet Harvest (2012)
   New Beginnings (2013)
   A Flash of Water (2016)
   Where the Sunrise is Red (2018)
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