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Daily Cuts - Author Fairoz Ahmad talks about disappearing youth and disappearing kampongs in 1970s Singapore

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In ‘Culture Club’, Melanie Oliveiro speaks with local author Fairoz Ahmad about his novel “Neverness”, which is about how the young residents of a 1970s Singapore kampong unite to search for Alia, a village girl and fellow schoolmate who mysteriously disappears one fateful night. Fairoz will talk more about this coming-of-age historical novel and the research he did to capture what it was like to live in the now long-gone Kampong Lorong Engku Aman.

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Daily Cuts - The Enabling Lives Festival returns for its 2024 edition

In ‘Made in SG’, Melanie Oliveiro speaks to Imran Manaff, co-founder and managing director of Maya Dance Theatre (MDT) and Zhuo Zihao, award-winning dancer, and choreographer from ART:DIS. The pair talk about performances that can be seen at this year's Enabling Lives Festival, a four-day event which showcases the talents of the disabled community and the creatives who collaborate with them. Organised by SG Enable and with over 40 programmes islandwide, the festival has over 60 partners including MDT and ART:DIS. 

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Daily Cuts - Importance of Suzhou Industrial Park to Singapore-China ties

Singapore Today's Lance Alexander and Daniel Martin speak with Dr Alan Cheong, Senior Fellow, S Rajaratnam School of International Studies, about the importance of Suzhou Industrial Park to maintaining Singapore-China ties.

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Daily Cuts - Is Project Wolbachia working?

Singapore Today's Lance Alexander and Daniel Martin speak with Dr Loh Jiashen, Infectious Diseases Specialist, Farrer Park Hospital, about how effective Project Wolbachia could be in reducing dengue cases in Singapore.

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Daily Cuts - A B.R.A.V.E. study for our youths' mental wellness

Singapore Today's Lance Alexander and Daniel Martin spoke with Dr Lim Choon Guan, a Senior Consultant and Chief of the Developmental Psychiatry Department at IMH and the principal investigator of the BRAVE study, about a new ten-year study to support and track the development of youths with certain mental health and neurodevelopment conditions, primarily in children born between 2007 and 2016. B.R.A.V.E = Building Resilience And Intervention

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Daily Cuts - #TalkBack: Why females could experience more bullying than males, while gaming online?

Singapore Today's Lance Alexander and Daniel Martin speak with Dr Joel Yang, Clinical Psychologist, Mind What Matters, about why female gamers experience bullying while gaming online more than their male counterparts.

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