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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 - Island life and underwater adventures with Canny Claudya

In ‘Destination Anywhere’, Melanie Oliveiro speaks with Canny Claudya, a digital content creator known as @cannyclaudya on Instagram. Claudya - who loves to travel and dive - talks about her underwater escapades, the sea creatures she’s encountered, and her choice destinations for island getaways.

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Daily Cuts - Differentiating bubbles from genuine, sustainable tech revolutionaries

In ‘Culture Club’ Melanie Oliveiro speaks with Dr Jeffrey Funk, author of “Unicorns, Hype and Bubbles”. Billed as a guide to spotting investment bubbles in tech, Funk talks about the tools required to differentiate between bubbles and genuine, sustainable technological revolutionaries. Funk will also demystify the sometimes fever-pitched hype surrounding AI, VR and one Elon Musk.

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Daily Cuts - Making Singapore's point-to-point transport services more efficient

Singapore Today's Daniel Martin and Justine Moss speak with transport analyst Walter Theseira, Associate Professor with the Singapore University of Social Sciences' School of Business, about making our point-to-point transport services more efficient.

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Daily Cuts - A union of Chicken and (Salted) Egg

Salted Egg snack brand IRVINS has come together with chicken wing restaurant Wingstop to bring you IRVINS Salted Egg wings. How does the humble salted duck egg flavour stack up against Wingstop’s American flavours? And could the salted egg flavour catch on beyond Asia? Work It's Chew Wui Lynn and producer Janine Tan speak with Reno Chow, Senior Vice President of Commercial at IRVINS.

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Daily Cuts - Is Fractional work just another word for freelancing?

Fractional work is when someone works for a “fraction” of the time of a full-time employee. But how is it different from freelancing? Work It's Chew Wui Lynn speaks with Cassandra Ong, founder of the fractional marketing agency OtterHalf.

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