Frustration mounts as Singaporean students can't return to Australian universities


Third-year student at the University of Queensland Sun Qing (left), and neuroscience masters student at Australian National University Nurulhuda Azman. - COURTESY OF SUN QING, COURTESY OF NURULHUDA AZMAN

SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): When the Covid-19 pandemic struck, Velda Lim raced back to Singapore last March, thinking that she would be able to return to Melbourne soon.

But Australia shut its international borders that same month to contain the spread of Covid-19.

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