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Daily Cuts - Affordable Art Fair 2024: making art accessible to art lovers

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In ‘Culture Club’, Melanie Oliveiro speaks with Alan Koh, Fair Director of Affordable Art Fair Singapore and Seah Yu Ying, Director of White Space Art Asia. The pair reveal what’s new at Affordable Art Fair 2024, which celebrates its 15th anniversary in Singapore and its 25th anniversary globally. Koh discusses the milestones and challenges growing the fair since it started and what’s new for the 2024 edition. Seah talks about the local gallery’s involvement at this year’s fair.

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Daily Cuts - New 2-year credit counselling pilot programme to help those in debt

According to Credit Counselling Singapore (CCS), there was an 18 percent increase in the number of requests for credit debt in the first half of 2024, compared to the last six months of 2023. To help deal with the rising numbers, CCS will be rolling out a new two-year pilot programme. Andrea Heng and Hairianto Diman speak with Tan Huey Min, General Manager, Credit Counselling Singapore, to understand what credit counselling entails and the cases the agency has handled.

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Daily Cuts - 7-Eleven takeover – what is its impact?

7-Eleven parent company, Seven & i, is planning on splitting its business into two, in its bid to attract more inventors. This comes amid the backdrop of its core business 7-Eleven weakening. Andrea Heng and Hairianto Diman speak to Dr Roy Larke, Professor and Co-Founder, Japanconsuming.com, to examine the implications of this divestment.

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Daily Cuts - Despite Hamas leader Sinwar’s death, Mideast peace may still be elusive

The killing of Yahya Sinwar – the mastermind behind the Oct 7 attack which sparked the Middle East conflict – could be the key to ending the bloodshed. However, violence continues to escalate, worsened now by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s vow to take revenge after there was an assassination attempt on him. Andrea Heng and Hairianto Diman speak to Dr Stephen Zunes, Professor of Politics, University of San Francisco to find out if the situation in the Middle East has finally reached a point of no return.

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Daily Cuts - Tech Talk: Bowers & Wilkins' new earbud models Pi6 and Pi8

In this edition of Tech Talk, Daniel Martin spoke with Christian Honegger, CEO, TC Acoustic Pte Ltd, about Bowers & Wilkins' new earbud models Pi6 and Pi8.

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Daily Cuts - Noise-induced deafness: Singapore's top occupational disease

Singapore Today's Daniel Martin and Tay Soo Sien speak with Alicia Tay, Clinical Audiologist, The Listening Lab, about why noise-induced deafness has become Singapore’s top occupational disease.

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