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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 - Travelling the world through music with Ghib Ojisan

In ‘Destination Anywhere’, Melanie Oliveiro speaks with Ghib Ojisan, a Japanese blogger living in Singapore who goes by @ghibli_ojisan on Instagram. Ojisan shares his travel adventures globetrotting with a guitar, and seeing the world through music.

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Daily Cuts - Accessible tuition app wins young entrepreneurship competition

In ‘Made in SG’, Melanie Oliveiro speaks Ivy Tse, CEO of non-profit Halogen, which runs the NFTE programme and Mabel Sim, teenage winner of the NFTE Youth Entrepreneurship Competition (NYEC 2024). The competition challenges youths to pitch business ideas for a chance to represent Singapore at the World Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge (WYEC) in New York City. 15-year-old Sim talks about her idea, Academicaid, an app which provides affordable and accessible home-based tuition services. 

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Daily Cuts - More Singaporeans to benefit from social support measures

Singapore Today's Daniel Martin and Justine Moss speak with Professor Sumit Agarwal, Low Tuck Kwong Distinguished Professor of Finance, NUS, about more Singaporeans could benefit from social support, as the government plans to raise the annual value threshold across all tiers.

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Daily Cuts - Helping to reduce problem gambling in Singapore

Singapore Today's Daniel Martin and Justine Moss speak with Dr Melvyn Zhang, Consultant, National Addictions Management Service and Acting Deputy Chief, Department of Addiction Medicine, IMH, about what we can do to help reduce problem gambling in Singapore.

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Daily Cuts - How to avoid becoming a victim of spoof e-mail scams

Singapore Today's Daniel Martin and Justine Moss speak with Yeo Siang Tong, General Manager, Kaspersky SEA, about precautions you could take to avoid becoming a victim of spoof e-mail scams.

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