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CNA938 Rewind - 100% Human-Made! Meet the Organisation of Illustrators Council Singapore

CNA938 Rewind

In ‘Culture Club’, Melanie Oliveiro speaks with illustrators/artists Michael Ng and Asher Yeo from the Organisation of Illustrators Council or OIC Singapore. Ng (known as The Mindflyer) and Yeo (Tororo.aoi) will talk about how OIC champions illustrations, art and their creators in Singapore. Together with creative producer Zu Wee Ling, they’ll also discuss the Illustration Arts Festival – organised by OIC – held from July 4-6th 2025. Now into its sixth edition, they’ll describe the festival’s main features and the more than 130 illustrators from more than 10 countries who’ll also be present.

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CNA938 Rewind - A Letter to Myself: How Pranati Bagchi built a lavender spaceship to fuel young girls' confidence

Pranati Bagchi the founder of The Lavender Spaceship Project, an online school that provides a "girl-centric" education in coding and other tech-related skills. Pranati shares how the seeds of her entrepreneurial journey were planted when he daughter had a dispiriting experience at a coding class, how she persevered through the early days of being a one-woman-operation, and how her students are gaining more than just technical skills but the confidence to believe that they too can reach for the stars.

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CNA938 Rewind - TalkBack: Pre-authorisation certification - Are you using more private healthcare services?

Great Eastern has halted pre-authorisation certificates for admissions to Mount Elizabeth hospitals in Orchard and Novena, citing “efforts to manage rising healthcare costs and ensure long-term affordability for all policyholders.” Lance Alexander and Daniel Martin speak with Alfred Chia, CEO of SingCapital, to discuss whether more Singaporeans are turning to private healthcare services.

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CNA938 Rewind - First RTS Link train unveiled — an engineer weighs in

The first of eight trains for the Johor Bahru-Singapore Rapid Transit System has been unveiled, as the project gains steam. Lance Alexander and Daniel Martin speak with engineering expert Teo Chor Kok, a member of the Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Technical Committee at the Institution of Engineers, Singapore.

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CNA938 Rewind - Israel-Iran conflict: truce seems to be holding, is it over?

Iran has warned that it has little faith in Israel's commitment to a fragile ceasefire that ended the most intense and destructive confrontation between the two foes to date. The truce seems to be holding, but is it over? Lance Alexander and Daniel Martin speak with Dr Rohan Gunaratna, Professor of Security Studies at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University.

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CNA938 Rewind - SG author Jemimah Wei’s “The Original Daughter” basks in the global spotlight

In ‘Culture Club’, Melanie Oliveiro speaks with Singaporean author, Jemimah Wei, who discusses her debut novel, “The Original Daughter”, now available around the world. “The Original Daughter”, is a coming-of-age story set in Bedok about an adopted ‘sister’, Arin, who later becomes a Hollywood starlet and Gen, the ‘original daughter’, who ekes out a living as a gig worker in Singapore. Their strong relationship gradually sours into one of dysfunction and betrayal. Wei will talk about why the novel was more than 10 years in the making and how themes like trauma and female rage occur throughout the book.

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