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Daily Cuts - A Hollywood writer tells us if she's excited to go back to work

Finally, our favourite TV shows will be back on our screens! The months-long Hollywood writers' strike is approaching an end after the Writers Guild of America reached a deal with major studios and streaming services. We can look forward to late-night talk shows as soon as Sunday, 1 Oct. The union said its 11,500 members can return to work, ahead of their final vote to ratify the contract on 9th October. Amy Hartman is a film and TV writer based in Los Angeles and she tells us what she's looking forward to. 

Daily Cuts - Two day extension of Israel-Hamas truce sparks hope

A fragile truce between Israel and Hamas. has been extended by two days. Dozens of Israeli hostages as well as over a hundred Palestinian prisoners have been freed. Calls for a longer pause have been made. But what are the conditions needed for it to happen? Asia First's Arnold and Andrea speak with Laura Blumenfeld, Senior Fellow at the Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies, Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies, to find out more.

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Daily Cuts - Let's Jam by Temasek Shophouse

Melanie Oliveiro speaks with Rappers Zack Ariff & Elaine and Yvonne Tay, head of social impact hub Temasek Shophouse about Let's Jam, a jamming-session-concert series. Organised by Temasek Shophouse, this ground-up community initiative holds space for senior and young musicians to jam together and forge intergenerational friendships through music.

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Daily Cuts - NGS’s latest exhibit Liu Kuo-Sung

Melanie Oliveiro visits the National Gallery Singapore’s exhibition ‘Liu Kuo-Sung: Experimentation as Method’. Jennifer K.Y. Lam, Curator at the National Gallery Singapore will discuss how this retrospective spans seven decades of the 91-year-old Chinese artist’s career in Singapore, and what visitors to the exhibition can learn from his artwork

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Daily Cuts - #TalkBack: Should you be using mobile phones at concerts?

On #TalkBack, Singapore Today's Lance Alexander and Daniel Martin speak with Ross Knudson, Co-Founder, LAMC Productions and Annabelle Chow, Clinical Psychologist, Annabelle Psychology, about how using mobile phones at concerts may detract us from the full live experience.

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Daily Cuts - How Singaporeans could avoid debt

Singapore Today's Lance Alexander and Daniel Martin speak with Christopher Tan, CEO, Providend, about what Singaporeans could do to avoid falling into debt.

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