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Daily Cuts - Fashion for Cancer: Raising funds for research

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Singapore Today’s Lance Alexander and Justine Moss speak with Ong Bee Yan, Organiser of Fashion for Cancer, about her initiative which combines her fashion expertise with the goal of raising awareness in fighting Cancer.

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Daily Cuts - Is your salary enough to keep you at your job?

Employees recognise pay to be important. But is there more to it than your salary that can keep you happily motivated and anchored at your workplace? CNA's Stanley Leong talks about the value of the benefits your employer offers with Audrey Tan, Head of Health & Benefits for Singapore at WTW - a global advisory, broking and solutions company.

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Daily Cuts - Thai parliament sits to decide on its next Prime Minister

The country’s newly elected parliament will meet later today, 3rd July, to decide on a new Prime Minister. The front runner right now is Pita Limjaroenrat from the Move Forward Party. Asia First’s Arnold Gay and Andrea Heng hear from Michael Montesano, Associate Senior Fellow, ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute, who tells us what Pita’s strategy should be moving forward.

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Daily Cuts - Can Singaporeans be trusted to pay for plastic bags?

From today, it’s official that supermarkets will charge you 5 cents for every plastic bag you use. One supermarket chain is banking on the honesty of shoppers, particularly at the self-checkout counters — customers will be responsible for inputting the number of bags they use! Asia First’s Arnold Gay and Andrea Heng speak to Samuel Chng, Applied social psychologist and Head of the Urban Psychology Lab at the Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities at SUTD, who tells us if he thinks the honour system will work.

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Daily Cuts - Russia's ongoing crisis

Russia removed Wagner’s mercenary forces from the Ukraine war, after Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin declined to sign contracts with the defence ministry. In the meantime, Vladimir Putin has been appearing in public, trying to show that everything is normal in Russia. Asia First’s Arnold Gay and Andrea Heng hear from Malcolm Davis, Senior Analyst, Australian Strategic Policy Institute, who tells us if Putin has reasserted complete control or gone quiet for now.

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Daily Cuts - Why do monitor lizards inspire fear?

In 2019, a survey by YouGov found that “reptiles” were the third most feared — more than “public speaking”, “ghosts”, or even “death”! Asia First’s Arnold Gay and Andrea Heng speak to Sankar Ananthanarayanan, Co-founder of the Herpetological Society Singapore, who tells us where the collective fear of reptiles comes from.

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