[3] Four years later, he was hired by See Ewe Lay to become the Chief Editor of Lat Pau, the first major Chinese-language newspaper in Singapore.
[1] On 2 July 1901, he founded the Singapore Medical Daily, a weekly newspaper published on Tuesdays focusing on traditional Chinese medicine among other topics.
[2] At the time of his death, a had written dozens of poems, many of which were well known for their writing and use of allusions,[4] and was still serving as the chief editor of Lat Pau.
[1] He was on good terms with Zuo Binglong and Huang Zunxian and admired their efforts to establish literary societies.
[3] The addition of the feature into Lat Pau resulted in the wide usage of supplements in Chinese newspapers.