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Daily Cuts - From boomtown to ghost town: the fate of Changi Business Park

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Built and once dubbed the CBD of the East, the buildings that once housed the back-end offices of tech and banking giants like IBM, AMD and Citigroup are rapidly emptying out of Changi Business Park, with overall vacancy rates reportedly more than doubling over the last three years to almost 40 percent.  Lee Sze Teck, Senior Director, Data Analytics, Huttons Group  gives Asia First's Hairianto Diman and Justine Moss an analysis on the fate and future of the district.

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Daily Cuts - Baker X's new resident: Youkneadcakes

Not a want, but Youkneadcakes! Work It's Stanley leong and Hui Wong spoke with Ng Yu Feng, a full-time engineer turned full-time homebaker. She's the latest resident baker at Baker X, a facility at Orchard Central.

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Daily Cuts - Thank you for the music! The real purpose of SMRT’s new chimes

The new jingles and chimes at SMRT station platforms and onboard its trains aren’t just an audio pick-me-up for commuters – they’ve also been specially curated for the visually impaired to create a more inclusive public transport system here. Our guest on Asia First tells Andrea Heng and Joel Chua about the science and hard work that went into composing San Lun Che, Chan Mali Chan and Singai Naadu for this now-permanent feature. 

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Daily Cuts - Be careful what you share online, it could be seen as defamation

A woman has been charged over her involvement in an article that spread a false account of her negative experience at a local public institution. How do we know if an account directly told to us has been fabricated, and what can we do to avoid running into the risk of defamation? Andrea Heng and Joel Chua get expert legal advice on Asia First. 

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Daily Cuts - Understanding the security measures for your CPF account

Our CPF accounts are big targets for scammers, so strict safeguards have been introduced to prevent our hard-earned retirement funds from being wiped out. Our guest joins Andrea Heng and Joel Chua on Asia First to explain these safeguards in detail. 

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Daily Cuts - Little Hero by Emily Lim-Leh

Melanie Oliveiro speaks with award-winning Singaporean author Emily Lim-Leh about her latest children’s book: “Little Hero”. It’s a work of fiction inspired by real-life events from the childhood years of the author’s father in post-war 1940s Singapore and beyond. Lim-Leh will discuss how she crafted the main character seven-year-old Ying Xiong, the talks she recalled of her father’s memories of the Japanese Occupation,  and how both adults and children will resonate with the various themes addressed in the book.

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