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Daily Cuts - Accessible tuition app wins young entrepreneurship competition

In ‘Made in SG’, Melanie Oliveiro speaks Ivy Tse, CEO of non-profit Halogen, which runs the NFTE programme and Mabel Sim, teenage winner of the NFTE Youth Entrepreneurship Competition (NYEC 2024). The competition challenges youths to pitch business ideas for a chance to represent Singapore at the World Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge (WYEC) in New York City. 15-year-old Sim talks about her idea, Academicaid, an app which provides affordable and accessible home-based tuition services. 

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Daily Cuts - Honing her art with Hadasity 

Through wired art jewelry, poetry, paintings and a thoughtfully designed capsule collection of white wear, homegrown label Hadasity seeks to lift up women with her personalised pieces. Work It’s Cheryl Goh speaks with Hadassah Lau, Singaporean artist and designer of the brand Hadasity, to find out more.

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Daily Cuts - Mr Bucket’s Christmas Village

What better way to spend your Christmas holiday than in a chocolate-themed Christmas village? From building your own chocolate Christmas tree to a hot chocolate and mulled wine station, there’s something for everyone at Mr. Bucket’s Chocolate Factory in Dempsey. Work It’s Cheryl Goh speaks to Jerome Penafort, Founder, Mr Bucket Chocolaterie, to find out more.

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Daily Cuts - Explainer: Why undersea cables can make South-East Asia vulnerable

Undersea cables are crucial to the way we communicate today but in recent years, have also emerged as a quiet weapon for conflict. Andrea Heng and Hairianto Diman probe the mystery enshrouding these essential mechanisms and how they put South-East Asian countries vulnerable to a potential battlefront between global powers with Ian Li, Associate Research Fellow, Military Studies Programme, Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, S Rajaratnam School of International Studies

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Daily Cuts - Yoon Suk Yeol resists questioning during trial; PPP leader quits

South Korea’s political crisis has deepened as impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol resisted investigators’ questions over his failed bid to declare martial law earlier this month. Meanwhile, the leader of his party, the People Power Party, has quit, further expanding the power vacuum. Andrea Heng and Hairianto Diman speak with Lee Sung Yoon, Global Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He’s also author of The Sister, North Korea’s Kim Yo Jong, the Most Dangerous Woman in the World

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Daily Cuts - Israel’s pursuit of Golan Heights – a new front brimming in the war

Israel has approved plans to expand its settlements in Golan Heights now that Bashar al-Assad is no longer the leader of Syria. On Asia First, Andrea Heng and Hairianto Diman discuss the potential risks for Syria and the wider Middle East for the territory, which Israel seized in 1967 and is considered illegally occupied under international law with Lawrence Rubin, Associate Professor, Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology 

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