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

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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 - Celebrating the world’s best sporting moments in 2024

From the Olympics and Paralympics to the retirement of tennis star Rafael Nadal to Australia’s controversial breakdancer Raygun, Andrea Heng and Hairianto Diman speak to James Dampney, sports journalist, News Limited Australia, to recap the world’s best and most memorable moments in sports in 2024. 

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Daily Cuts - The presence of gender clinics, treatments in Singapore 

A teleconsultation clinic focusing on gender health has been taken to task for providing unlicensed outpatient medical services to Singapore-based users. Andrea Heng and Hairianto Diman speak to Dr Warren Lee, Senior Consultant Paediatrician and Paediatric Endocrinologist at Dr Warren Lee’s Paediatrics, Growth & Diabetes, to zoom in on this segment of the medical industry and discuss the prevalence of patients seeking gender health services here. 

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Daily Cuts - Fallout in South Korea after Yoon Suk Yeol’s martial law U-turn

President Yoon Suk Yeol is being pressured to leave his own political party following the resignation of his defence minister, in the aftermath of the martial law decree that he reversed hours after. Andrea Heng and Hairianto Diman speak to Dr Jong Eun Lee, Assistant Professor of Political Science, North Greenville University, to assess the fallout in South Korea. 

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Daily Cuts - Intergenerational co-living: Could it work in Singapore?

Singapore Today's Daniel Martin and Justine Moss speak with Dr Kelvin Tan, Head of the Minor in Applied Ageing Studies programme, SUSS, about the viability of intergenerational co-living in Singapore.

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Daily Cuts - Why the mixed returns across Singapore's retail sectors in October

Singapore Today's Daniel Martin and Justine Moss speak with Heron Lim, Assistant Director and Economist, Moody's Analytics, about what has led to mixed returns across Singapore's retail sectors in October.

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