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Daily Cuts - Exploring Singapore’s WWII Past

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In ‘Destination Anywhere’, Melanie Oliveiro explores the ‘Twilight Tour of Fort Siloso’, a special tour commemorating the 83rd anniversary of the Fall of Singapore as part of the National Heritage Board (NHB)'s annual ‘Battle for Singapore’ series of programmes. NHB’s Satha Logaraj will talk about the tour’s main features like Fort Siloso’s historic guns, military barracks, observation posts, and the underground network of tunnels constructed to shelter soldiers and store ammunition during World War II. Satha will also talk about other ‘Battle for Singapore’ programmes for Singaporeans, residents, and tourists to discover.

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Daily Cuts - A Letter to Myself: Chef Sam Wong retraces his footsteps from shoes to Cantonese cuisine

Chef Sam Wong is a self-taught chef behind Lucky House Cantonese Private Kitchen, which he runs with his wife, Dr Yap Lee Yee from their house along Upper East Coast Road. Chef Sam shares how he started in the wholesale shoe business and trekked his way to becoming such a sought-after Cantonese private home dining chef with a waiting list that can stretch up to a year.

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Daily Cuts - Myanmar’s civil war: Trouble still looms one year on

Violence threatens to escalate in Myanmar, one year after rebel armies launched an offensive on the military junta, plunging the country into civil war. Its embattled ruling generals are pushing to hold another election, this time in 2025. Leong Wai Kit, CNA's Johor-Myanmar-ASEAN correspondent brings Andrea Heng and Hairianto Diman the latest from the troubled nation. 

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Daily Cuts - The DeepSeek debacle: A deep dive into China’s AI disruptor

China’s DeepSeek AI app shook the tech world, even prompting US President Donald Trump to declare it a wake-up call for American tech companies. A week after its launch, it became the most downloaded AI chatbot in app stores, and challenged the need for costly materials and operations for AI. Andrea Heng and Hairianto Diman study the implications of DeepSeek on the industry and find out what its limitations are for users – and its creator, Liang Wenfeng. On Asia First, Kyle Rodda, Senior Financial Market Analyst, Capital.com speaks with them.

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Daily Cuts - Is a pay rise enough to retain healthcare workers?

Singapore Today's Lance Alexander and Daniel Martin speak with Dr Jeremy Lim, Associate Professor at the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, NUS, on whether a pay rise is enough to retain healthcare workers. 

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Daily Cuts - Understanding the US helicopter-plane crash

Singapore Today's Lance Alexander and Daniel Martin speak with Shantanu Gangakhedkar, Senior Consultant, Aerospace and Defense, Asia-Pacific, Frost and Sullivan, on what could have happened. 

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