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

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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 - Gastroscopies: What you need to know before getting one

Concerns have arisen over gastroscopies in the wake of a Singaporean patient who underwent one in South Korea. Andrea Heng and Hairianto Diman get a medical professional, Adjunct Associate Professor Lee Guan Huei, Head & Senior Consultant, Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Department of Medicine, National University Hospital, to spell out the procedure and what necessitates it in the Singapore context. 

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Daily Cuts - How Singaporeans view different automakers and their cars

A recent study by an automotive company here has revealed the perceptions of existing and potential car consumers in Singapore and across Asia. Andrea Heng and Hairianto Diman speak to Sabrina Azmi, Research Solutions Director, Carma Asia. Together, they cruise through the findings and discuss the details. 

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Daily Cuts - Reading the signals from a record year of elections

2024 has been a chaotic, rollercoaster year of political polling in many nations across the world. Andrea Heng and Hairianto Diman speak to Associate Professor Chong Jia Ian, Department of Political Science, National University of Singapore, Non-Resident Scholar, Carnegie China, to identify the common threads as well as the anomalies from the record year of elections, and read the signals sent by the global population. 

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Daily Cuts - Understanding Singapore’s income report

Andrea Heng and Hairianto Diman speak to Chuin Ting Weber, CEO and CIO, MoneyOwl, to get a closer examination of early findings from the annual data on Singapore’s resident labour force by the Ministry of Manpower. They decipher what it means for wages and purchasing power.

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Daily Cuts - Why millennials, Gen Zs need side hustles to meet their savings goals

Having a second job is not unusual for a millennial or a Gen Z; often it involves a job outside their main roles. Andrea Heng and Hairianto Diman speak to Sophia Tan, Wealth Manager, PhillipCapital, to find out why side hustles are almost a necessity and if a deeper financial issue is at hand. 

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