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CNA938 Rewind - The Prime Question: is a Prime HDB flat really for everyone?

CNA938 Rewind

Redhill Peaks is the only project under the Prime category in the latest BTO launch - with a subsidy clawback rate of 12 per cent. Now that you know more about the scheme, is Prime for you? Daniel Martin speaks with Eugene Lim, Key Executive Officer at ERA Singapore.

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CNA938 Rewind - #TalkBack: Median income hits over $12K: Are Singaporeans richer — or just older?

Singapore’s median monthly household income in 2025 crossed $12,000 – rising 6.8 per cent from the previous year, after adjusting for inflation. That’s according to the Key Household Income Trends 2025 paper, released today by the Singapore Department of Statistics (Singstat). Daniel Martin discusses further with Terence Ho, Adjunct Associate Professor in Practice at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, NUS. He’s also Executive Director (Designate) at the Institute for Adult Learning, SUSS.

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CNA938 Rewind - More investment, fewer jobs created? What EDB Year-In-Review 2025 numbers really say

$14.2 billion – that’s how much Singapore attracted in fixed asset investments last year, about five per cent more than in 2024. But, job creation commitments have fallen to 15,700 – down from 18,700 a year earlier and the lowest since at least 2005… Daniel Martin discusses further with Heron Lim, Lecturer and Economist, ESSEC Business School.

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CNA938 Rewind - Jimmy Lai sentenced: The end of "One Country, Two Systems"?

Media tycoon Jimmy Lai has been sentenced today to 20 years’ jail, bringing Hong Kong’s largest national security case to a close. Daniel Martin discusses further with James Chin, Professor of Asian Studies, University of Tasmania.

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CNA938 Rewind - A historic vote: How Japan’s election reshapes politics and power

Japan Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s ruling coalition has scored a landslide victory in the lower house election. Daniel Martin discusses further with James Chin, Professor of Asian Studies, University of Tasmania.

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CNA938 Rewind - And Baby Makes 3 - Author Sunita Sue Leng’s Novel About Adoption & the Mature Parent

In ‘Made in SG’ Melanie Oliveiro speaks with Singapore-based Malaysian author Sunita Sue Leng about her novel "The Unlikely Motherhood of Shaleni May" – an Epigram Books Fiction Prize 2025 finalist. It’s about 45-year-old protagonist Shaleni May, happily married to her husband. When both decide to adopt a newborn, this launches Shaleni into an alien new life of digital-age parenting as she battles self-doubt and a looming threat from her husband’s past. Sunita will discuss the plot and various issues brought up in her novel including mature parenting, adoption and societal expectations.

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