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Daily Cuts - Up, Up, and Away: Discovering Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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Melanie Oliveiro finds out about the ongoing exhibition: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ‘When a Prince takes Flight’ held at Alliance Française de Singapour. Taking up several rooms, the exhibition delves deep into the remarkable life of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, an aviator and World War 2 hero best known as the celebrated author behind the beloved classic, "The Little Prince." Melanie’s guests will discuss his extraordinary legacy by highlighting a rare collection of original artifacts, including first drafts of letter prints and personal belongings – on loan from the Saint-Exupéry Foundation.

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Daily Cuts - A Letter to Myself: Isrudy Shaik on openness and possibly becoming Singapore's next "cattle king"

Isrudy Shaik, founder of ASAP & Co, reflects on his unlikely journey from art gallery coordinator to the proprietor of an acclaimed halal-friendly steakhouse, and how a prominent ancestor might have had something to do with it.

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Daily Cuts - Proposed deal between Income Insurance and Allianz: Boon or bane for customers?

Singapore Today's Lance Alexander and Hui Wong speak with Professor Lawrence Loh, Director, Centre for Governance and Sustainability, National University of Singapore (NUS) Business School, about concerns surrounding a proposed deal between Income Insurance and Allianz.

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Daily Cuts - $1.7 million sale of a premium Margaret Drive five-room HDB flat: A one-off outlier?

Singapore Today's Lance Alexander and Hui Wong speak with Eugene Lim, Key Executive Officer, ERA Singapore, about whether the record-breaking $1.7 million sale of a premium five-room HDB flat at Margaret Drive near the prime Dawson estate is a one-off outlier.

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Daily Cuts - Going Visà-vis with Travel Patterns in Asia

In ‘Destination Anywhere’, Melanie Oliveiro discovers more from Ken Wong, Head of the Asia Pacific Data Science Team, Visa Asia Pacific, about Visa's latest study on inbound tourism, spending patterns and travel behaviours — largely driven by Asian travellers — during high-traffic periods. Wong talks more on how and why travellers from Southeast Asia and East Asia are the top spenders; which country led the region with the highest growth rate; and what these tourists tend to spend on when going on last-minute shopping sprees.

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Daily Cuts - Is All the World's a Sea?

In ‘Culture Club’, Melanie Oliveiro speaks with Kuo Jian Hong, Artistic Director, The Theatre Practice and Ang Xiao Ting, Actor, about ‘All The World’s A Sea’ - a 2024 mainstage show in collaboration with Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay. Kuo and Ang delves into how this production stars an international team of artmakers from Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Nanjing and USA. They’ll also share how the show is a revisited adaptation of a 2018 Theatre Practice production, ‘I came at last to the seas’, which reflected on the multiple identities of the Chinese diaspora.

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