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Daily Cuts - Beyoncé and her legacy set to be the subject of a new university course

Pop superstar Beyoncé and her expansive cultural legacy will be the subject of a new course at Yale University in 2025. The class will focus on how the multi-hyphenated artist has generated awareness and engagement in social and political ideologies. She is not the first performer to be the subject of a college-level course, with the recent one being Taylor Swift. Hairianto Diman and Susan Ng speak to Jem Aswad, Executive Music Editor, Variety, to find out if the study of entertainment icons as a subject of academia is an emerging trend.

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Daily Cuts - A Letter to Myself: How her own mortality jolted Regina Tan into helping others plan for the inevitable

Regina Tan is the founder and CEO of Immortalize, a one-stop marketplace for elderhood and legacy planning needs. She shares how a near-death experience when she was 29 made her realise the importance of planning for the inevitable, a process that she says ought to begin from as early as a person's fifties. Regina shares how this journey has reshaped her priorities and given her the clarity to pursue what truly matters.

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Daily Cuts - Growing Sugar(ed), ground up

How do you get people to trust a brand new method of hair-removal, if they’re a stickler for what is familiar? Sugar(ed) went through that 8 years ago, being the first studio in Singapore to introduce sugaring, and built a successful brand through (ed)ucation. Work It’s Cheryl Goh speaks with Jasmine Yong, founder of Sugar(ed) to tell us more.

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Daily Cuts - Rise of moderate to severe atopic eczema in Singapore

Singapore Today's Lance Alexander and Justine Moss speak with Dr Stephanie Ho, Dermatologist, Stephanie Ho Dermatology, about what could be causing more people to reportedly get hit with moderate to severe bouts of atopic eczema in Singapore.

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Daily Cuts - Kpods: The next phase of a growing vaping problem in Singapore?

Singapore Today's Lance Alexander and Justine Moss speak with Sean Ang, nicotine cessation counsellor and pharmacist with Success Alliance Enrichment, about how Kpods could worsen a growing vaping problem in Singapore.

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Daily Cuts - HDB builds BTO flats that have not been announced for sale yet

Singapore Today's Lance Alexander and Justine Moss speak with Nicholas Mak, Chief Research Officer, Mogul.sg, about the HDB's move to build hundreds of BTO flats that have not been announced for sale.

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