Logo
Advertisement
Advertisement

CNA938 Rewind - The Big Question: Catching up or switching off? How should students spend their school holidays?

CNA938 Rewind

With the June school holidays coming up, some parents have overseas trips planned for their family while others have booked book tuition slots and enrichment classes for their kids. Is switching off even an option for one of the world’s most competitive education systems? In this week’s The Big Question, Susan Ng and Hairianto Diman ask: Catching up or switching off – How should students spend their school holidays? For more, they speak with Dr David Teo, Deputy Medical Director and Senior Consultant Psychiatrist, Connections MindHealth, and Mdm Rahayu Mahzam, Minister of State, Ministry of Digital Development and Information.

Resume Pause 33 min
Bookmark

CNA938 Rewind - #TalkBack Crisis Convos (Ep9): how can businesses and households adapt to rising costs?

Container shipping rates have nearly doubled since the war on Iran began, while fuel costs have surged 55 per cent. How much of these higher costs will businesses absorb, how much will be passed on to consumers, and what can Singapore businesses and households do to adapt? Daniel Martin speaks with Dr Goh Shao Hung, Adjunct Senior Lecturer at NUS and Supply Chain Consultant.

Resume Pause 18 mins
Bookmark
Bookmark

CNA938 Rewind - Higher prices, slower growth: reading the signals from the MAS survey #SGToday

Inflation forecasts are up, growth projections are down. What does the latest MAS Survey of Professional Forecasters tell us about where our economy’s headed next? Daniel Martin speaks with Khoon Goh, Head of Asia Research, ANZ.

Resume Pause 10 mins
Bookmark
Bookmark

CNA938 Rewind - Zero waste, still a work in progress? #SGToday

Singapore’s producing less waste, but recycling rates could be better. Are the new figures continuing the downward trend of the last decade? Daniel Martin speaks with Lionel Dorai, Executive Director, Zero Waste Singapore. 

Resume Pause 18 mins
Bookmark
Bookmark

CNA938 Rewind - Baby Shark Makes a Splash in Fairmont Singapore

On ‘Destination Anywhere’, Melanie Oliveiro dives into a Baby Shark-themed staycation. The adorable iconic sea creature has surfaced at Fairmont Singapore and right in the middle of the June school holidays. Fairmont Singapore’s MD William J. Haandrikman will give all the highlights and explain what a campaign like this says about the growing appeal of character-led travel experiences for families in Singapore and abroad.

Resume Pause 16 mins
Bookmark
Bookmark

CNA938 Rewind - A Hidden WW2 Past - "The Singapore Secret" by Clare Willis

In ‘Culture Club’, Melanie Oliveiro speaks with Clare Willis, a Singapore-based primary school teacher and author of "The Singapore Secret". Originally from the UK, Willis will talk about what inspired her novel, which is set between two periods – 1942 and 2019 – World War II-era Singapore and modern-day England. It’s about Annabel, a history professor who discovers her late grandma Dotty’s letters, photographs and documents about her secret past life in colonial Singapore on the brink of the Japanese invasion.

Resume Pause 32 mins
Bookmark