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CNA938 Rewind - A Letter to Myself: "Local immigrant" Jonty Tan's journey in rediscovering his Singaporean roots

CNA938 Rewind

When Jonty Tan was two, his parents relocated the family to the United Kingdom. Almost thirty years later, on a trip back to Singapore that was meant to be a holiday, something in him awakened, sparking a journey that would see him bring his own family — wife and two young children — back to the country of his birth, and re-root himself here. Jonty, whose autobiography is entitled "The Local Immigrant", also runs a Youtube channel "Wanderlust" which documents his family's adventures discovering the island they've called home since 2020.

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CNA938 Rewind - Eat, Drink, Singapore - Nutri-Grade Labels… you should know it!

Nutri-grade labels have been around since 2022, but do we really understand the grading? Cheryl Goh speaks with Melissa Liow, Strategy Lead, and Valerie Ong, Campaign Lead of N.G.L.... You Should Know It, Final Year Wee Kim Wee School of Communication Students. They share more about label literacy, and how to read them ahead of the implementation of sodium labels.

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CNA938 Rewind - Mind Your Money - Behind every happy worker is an effective leader

An influential and effective leader makes for happy workers. But how does one lead a team, and even those across the work hierarchy? Cheryl Goh speaks to Sha-En Yeo, the Founder of Happiness Scientists, on the ingredients of an effective leader. 

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CNA938 Rewind - A Letter to Myself: Why Lim Sing Hui navigated her career from being an airforce pilot to the hospice sector

While Lim Sing Hui was in the airforce, her father passed away in a hospice. The gloomy environment in that particular facility left a mark on Sing Hui. A few years later, after retiring from the airforce in her early-forties, Sing Hui took an opportunity to join the hospice sector, driven by the belief that she could help make the last leg of a patient's journey more meaningful and dignified. Sing Hui, who is today an operations and admin manager with HCA Hospice, shares the courage it took to make such a career transition and what she'd say in a letter to her younger self.

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CNA938 Rewind - A Letter to Myself: Yi Lian Ng-Groves on being a stepmother and finding love in different ways

Yi Lian Ng-Groves first met her future husband's two children when they were one and four years of age. Five years later, she would become their stepmother when she married their father, who is American. While she's comfortable being "Aunty Yi Lian" to her stepchildren, they've also had to contend with navigating some social norms and expectations. Yi Lian shares how her relationship with her stepchildren, who are now teenagers, has evolved and the insights on love and identity she's gained through this journey.

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CNA938 Rewind - Why more Singapore families are fighting over property

More families are found to be fighting over real estate in court with at least 130 such cases here in the past decade alone. Many are driven to fight it out because they aren’t aware of their ownership rights. Andrea Heng and Hairianto Diman speak with Ivan Cheong, Partner and Head of Singapore Family team at Withers KhattarWong, to find out the reasons for the rise in such cases in Singapore, and how families can better understand their rights. 

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