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CNA938 Rewind - A Letter to Myself: For Rotterdam's former mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb, poetry is a light in darkness

CNA938 Rewind

Ahmed Aboutaleb migrated to the Netherlands when he was a teenager. It was a vastly different world from the poor Moroccan village in which he grew up. In 2009, he was the first immigrant to become mayor of a Dutch city. When he was co-awarded the World Mayor Prize in 2021, his citation described him as having “acted as a father of a very large family… with courage, patience, and humility”. Mr Aboutaleb, who is an outspoken opponent of extremist ideology, shares why he believes so firmly in multiculturalism and how poetry has been a source of solace and strength throughout his life journey — in particular during the most challenging periods of his career in public service. Mr Aboutaleb was in Singapore in late-June 2025 for the International Conference on Cohesive Societies.

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CNA938 Rewind - A Letter to Myself: Having built car vending machines, Gary Hong now fuels connections for social good

Gary Hong of Autobahn Motors is best known as the man behind Singapore's iconic car vending machines. Apart from dealing in classic and luxury cars, Gary is also the co-founder of PlayPan, a social enterprise that brings people and organisations from different backgrounds together to spark off innovative collaborations for social good. In this conversation, Gary shares how curiosity and optimism paved the way for him to discover a deeper meaning in his work, and how he has learned to re-channel his personal challenges into a source of creativity.

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CNA938 Rewind - This is the biggest earthquake to occur anywhere in the world in the past 14 years ~ tectonics expert

A powerful 8.8 magnitude earthquake has struck the far-eastern coast of Russia, triggering tsunami waves up to five metres. The quake, which struck off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula, sparked alerts across most of Japan's east coast. Daniel Martin and Justine Moss speak with Professor Aron Meltzner, Principal Investigator, Earth Observatory of Singapore and Assistant Professor, NTU.

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CNA938 Rewind - Singaporean on diving trip in Kozushima evacuates to higher ground

A powerful 8.8 magnitude earthquake has struck the far-eastern coast of Russia, triggering tsunami waves up to five metres. The quake, which struck off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula, sparked alerts across most of Japan's east coast. Japan is bracing for waves more than three-metres high. Nearly 2 million people have been told to evacuate, some 10,000 of them in Hokkaido. Daniel Martin and Justine Moss speak with Alisa Chopard, a Singaporean who’s currently on holiday in Japan - speaking from Kozushima.

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CNA938 Rewind - SG Brands we ❤️ x SG60 (Ep 3): Awfully Chocolate Founder Lyn Lee

As part of a special mini-series on “Singapore Today” leading up to SG60, Lance Alexander and Daniel Martin speak with CEOs who helm local brands that the country is proud of. This edition, they spoke with Lyn Lee, Founder of Awfully Chocolate, a home-grown brand known for their chocolate offerings.Founded in 1998, the business began with a group of friends opening a store in Katong offering one item – a chocolate cake they had spent months refining, in the hopes of creating the Perfect Singapore Chocolate Cake.

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CNA938 Rewind - Mandarin-taught programmes in universities: A sign of things to come?

A report by China’s Ministry of Education and Beijing-based think tank Centre for China and Globalisation ranks Singapore as the second-most popular destination for Chinese students, after the United Kingdom. Singapore universities are responding to this trend by introducing more Mandarin-taught post-graduate programmes. Daniel Martin and Justine Moss discuss with Associate Professor Jason Tan from the National Institute of Education – Policy, Curriculum and Leadership.

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