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CNA938 Rewind - A Letter to Myself: How Nichol Ng rebuilt the family business and started a food charity — while raising four children

CNA938 Rewind

Nichol Ng, co-founder and Group CEO of food distributor X-Inc, is known for starting The Food Bank Singapore (with her brother Nicholas) in 2012. While the siblings handed over the reins of the charity in 2025, Nichol continues pouring herself into her business, her family, and social causes — now as chairperson of Playeum, a charity which empowers children from marginalised backgrounds through "artful play". Nichol shares how her entrepreneurship journey started when she answered the call to rebuild her family business which had hit hard times, how she proved her doubters wrong, and the five most valuable lessons she would write in her letter to her younger self.

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CNA938 Rewind - From clinic to cloud: inside Singapore’s new health information bill

All licensed healthcare providers will be required to share their patients’ health information with a central repository from early next year. That’s after parliament passed a new law yesterday – the Health Information Bill. Daniel Martin discusses further with Dr Jeremy Lim, Associate Professor at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS.

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CNA938 Rewind - Cyber-safety: could our electric buses be remotely controlled?

Acting Transport Minister Jeffrey Siow said in Parliament that the Land Transport Authority will conduct additional independent technical assessments to confirm that public buses here can’t be remotely controlled by manufacturers. Daniel Martin discusses further with Ian Lim, Regional CXO Advisor, Cisco.

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CNA938 Rewind - When insurance changes, hospitals feel it: what is surge capacity?

The Health Ministry might implement “surge capacity” for selected treatments – that’s if more turn to public hospitals for subsidised healthcare, due to private health insurance changes. Daniel Martin discusses further with Dr Jeremy Lim, Associate Professor at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS.

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CNA938 Rewind - Singer-Songwriter Shelby Wang on Mandopop, Musical Growth, and Finding Her Voice

In ‘Culture Club’, Melanie Oliveiro speaks with Singaporean Mandopop singer Shelby Wang who is now celebrating the release of her new single “Don't Love Me”. Wang will talk about how her singing career has gone from strength-to-strength over the years and how she has diversified her sound by collaborating with other artists like local rapper Akeem Jahat in the song “Lucky to be Here”. Wang will also talk about her social media videos and how she communicates effectively with fans and curious netizens. Discover more Singaporean music and musicians - like Shelby Wang - at Hear65.com, an initiative by the National Arts Council produced by independent music media company Bandwagon.

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CNA938 Rewind - How raiSE and Social Enterprises are Transforming Business & Uplifting Communities in SG

In ‘Made in SG’, Melanie Oliveiro profiles raiSE or the Singapore Centre for Social Enterprise, which celebrates its 10th anniversary. raiSE’s Director of Strategic Initiatives Koh Wei Shan will talk about how it’s been a steady ecosystem developer and membership body for aspiring social entrepreneurs, existing Social Enterprises (SE) and other stakeholders committed to growing the SE sector in Singapore. Joining the chat are the SE founders like Pamela Chng from Bettr Group (which has reached B Corporation status) and Social Gifting’s Valen Tan Husistein.

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