Mei-Lin Chua Reyes is a journalist and columnist at Xalor. She is from Panabo City in Davao del Norte and writes about the points where German and Filipino perspectives meet. She grew up in a Tsinoy family where moving between languages and perspectives was part of everyday life.
She studied Mass Communication at the University of Mindanao and worked as a journalist in Mindanao, covering governance, corruption, infrastructure, and human rights. A journalistic exchange program took her to Europe in 2019 and deepened her interest in Germany. Her connection to the country is not only professional: family and extended stays have given her a view of German daily life that is not based solely on news and public debate.
At Xalor, Mei-Lin brings these experiences together with her journalistic work. She writes about integration, cultural misunderstandings, and the small situations in which people talk past one another even when they are trying to understand each other. Her perspective stays close to concrete experience and remains open to the possibility that both sides of a story may be right.