CNA938 Rewind - Managing one of Singapore's largest online forums for students
CNA938 Rewind
What does it take to run one of Singapore's most popular online teenage spaces? Andrea Heng and Hairianto Diman speak with the president of /r/SGExams, Irwen Zhao – the over 285,000-member strong Reddit forum that discusses student life in Singapore.
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