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CNA938 Rewind - The struggles of securing sports funding in Singapore

CNA938 Rewind

What’s stopping more companies from backing Singapore’s athletes? Andrea Heng and Hairianto Diman find out about the struggles sportsmen and women here face in securing sponsorships and funding to help with their sporting career. For more, they speak with Nicholas Fang, former national fencer and sports administrator. He’s also Managing Director at Novastella, a sports consultancy. 

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CNA938 Rewind - ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting: What’s next for the Thailand-Cambodia border conflict?

Malaysia on Monday (Dec 22) said senior defence officials from Cambodia and Thailand will meet on Christmas Eve to discuss details of their pledged ceasefire, after ASEAN’s foreign ministers met in Kuala Lumpur to push for an immediate end to renewed fighting along their shared border. What can we expect from the meeting? What’s needed for a durable truce that will last? Andrea Heng and Hairianto Diman find out from Dr Mustafa Izzuddin, Senior International Affairs Analyst, Solaris

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CNA938 Rewind - From scam job offers and to catfish profiles: are the cyber threats here getting worse?

New findings show rising exposure to online harm and scams, while a local firm faces police investigation for alleged links to a scam operation in Cambodia. What do these cases reveal about our digital vulnerabilities? Hairianto Diman speaks with Helena Huang, Associate Research Fellow with the Digital Impact Research team at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU).

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CNA938 Rewind - What to expect from peace summit in Egypt as Israel-Hamas truce holds

The Egyptian presidency said US President Donald Trump will co-chair a “peace summit” there on Monday on Gaza and the wider Middle East. The meeting will take place “with the participation of leaders from more than twenty countries”. Hairianto Diman discuss the latest developments with Dr Levi West, Research Fellow, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences.

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CNA938 Rewind - Stock take today: US-China trade tensions flare, Asia week ahead

On the daily markets analysis on Open For Business, Hairianto Diman speak with Heng Koon How, Head of Markets Strategy, Global Economics and Markets Research, UOB.

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CNA938 Rewind - Singapore’s bank dividend boom: Leading the global pack in H1 2025

Singapore companies paid out about US$8.2 billion in dividends in the first half of 2025, up roughly 13.1 % year-on-year. It forms a part of global dividends that hit a record US$1.14 trillion in H1 2025, with 86% of companies raising or maintaining payouts. Hairianto Diman delve deeper into the findings with Lai Yeu Huan, Head of Asian Equity, Amova Asset Management.

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