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Daily Cuts - Goodbye to the X – News media quit Elon Musk’s X over ‘disinformation’

News outlets have begun quitting X, formerly Twitter, over accusations that the platform enables the spread of disinformation under its owner Elon Musk. Sweden’s newspaper of reference, the left-liberal Dagens Nyheter (DN), joins Spain’s Vanguardia and Britain’s centre-left daily The Guardian as the third media outlet to stop posting content on the platform. Hairianto Diman and Susan Ng speak to Nicholas Fang, Managing Director, Black Dot Research, to discover the significance of such a move for authentic news sites, and the impact it has on the platform.

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Daily Cuts - 2025 Economic Outlook

What is the economic outlook for 2025? Can we expect greater post-pandemic price rises, and what will a Donald Trump presidency in the US mean for us in Asia? Vasu Menon, Managing Director for Investment Strategy at OCBC shares his thoughts with Chew Wui Lynn on Work It.

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Daily Cuts - Easing back into routines: How to restart your daily life in the new year

The holiday season is over and we may find ourselves dragging our feet back to reality — and old routines. Andrea Heng speaks with Dr Joel Yang, Clinical Psychologist, Mind What Matters, for fetches some advice on how to set your mind and body in the right direction as a new year begins.

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Daily Cuts - Seoul’s political crisis: Legal flaws in arrest warrant of President Yoon Suk Yeol

President Yoon Suk Yeol remains defiant even as South Korean officials prepare to execute an arrest warrant over his refusal to cooperate with a probe into his short-lived martial law decree, bringing the political crisis into the new year. But there are signs pointing to legal flaws in the arrest warrant. For more, Andrea Heng speaks with Dr Yongwook Ryu, Assistant Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy.

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Daily Cuts - HDB resale prices jumped 9.6% in 2024

Joel Chua and Tay Soo Sien speak with Eugene Lim, Key Executive Officer, ERA Singapore, about why HDB resale prices jumped 9.6% in 2024, almost double the 4.9% gain in 2023.

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Daily Cuts - What could the Johor-Singapore Causeway look like in the future

Joel Chua and Tay Soo Sien speak with transport expert Associate Professor Walter Theseira from the School of Business at the Singapore University of Social Sciences, about how traffic across the Causeway is expected to grow by 40 per cent come 2050, with both Singapore and Malaysia having plans to cope with the surge in volume.

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