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CNA938 Rewind - STI’s sister index: Why SGX is expanding its lens on local stocks

SGX is launching a new index to track listed companies outside the top-30 Straits Times Index, opening up visibility for smaller and mid-cap firms often overlooked. Andrea Heng and Hairianto Diman chats with Ven Sreenivasan, Former Editor and Veteran Financial Journalist. He told them what this means for investor opportunity, index-benchmarking, and whether this could turbo-charge liquidity for those underappreciated stocks.

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CNA938 Rewind - #TalkBack: Why is it hard for parents to find alternatives to screentime?

About nine in 10 parents have introduced at least one type of action in guiding their child’s digital habits, like restricting screen time or content types. But only about one third feel confident they’re doing it right and many are calling for more support, according to a Ministry of Digital Development and Information (MDDI) study. Lance Alexander and Daniel Martin discuss more with Associate Professor Natalie Pang, Department of Communications and New Media, NUS.

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CNA938 Rewind - Die Die Must Eat: Inside the 2025 Makansutra Food Guide

It’s back – the 2025 edition of the Makansutra Food Guide, fully refreshed and reviewed. It’s free and comes with 5-hundred listings, along with new terms like Good One and Two Good. There’s also a new “Two Good, You Die Die Must Try” – featuring 36 best and across the island section, for those with less than a week in Singapore. Lance Alexander and Daniel Martin find out more from heritage street food advocate, commentator and critic K.F. Seetoh, founder of Makansutra.

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CNA938 Rewind - Sailing through setbacks: What the Disney delay tells us about the cruise industry

Disney Cruise Line’s first Asia cruise – Disney Adventure – is having its maiden voyage postponed to next March, due to shipbuilding delays. Lance Alexander and Daniel Martin discuss more about the situation with Benjamin Cassim, Senior Lecturer for Hospitality & Tourism Management, School of Business, Temasek Polytechnic and Vensen Wong, Administrator, CruiseBeyond SG.

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CNA938 Rewind - MEURAKI: Using Tech & AI to Aid Mental Wellness Journeys

In ‘Made in SG’, Melanie Oliveiro speaks with Michelle Ngiam, founder of MEURAKI, a wellness tech platform and app that brings together the best of gamification, shopping & mental wellness services. Ngiam will reveal how a bout of postpartum anxiety led her to create the platform – which equips people with a holistic perspective of their overall well-being through eight dimensions of wellness, while simultaneously providing them with resources and tools to improve in various wellness areas.

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CNA938 Rewind - Protecting your Digi-ID Whenever You Travel

In ‘Destination Anywhere’, Melanie Oliveiro speaks with Jasie Fon, Regional Vice President of Asia at Ping Identity, an identity security platform. Fon will talk about the systems in place to best protect our digital identities in travel processes – especially when passport-less travel is shaping the future of cross-border mobility in Asia. She’ll also list the opportunities for travel companies to innovate with decentralised identity and passwordless authentication. Fon will also reveal key regional trends in identity fraud prevention and the implications for travel tech adoption.

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