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Daily Cuts - Keeping track of Singaporeans' heart health through Project Reset

According to the National Health Survey, nearly all of us (9/10) are consuming too much salt. And naturally, that’s resulted in higher prevalence of hypertension and high blood pressure. Heart disease is also the top cause of death in Singapore. So a new initiative has been launched – it’s called Project RESET, and it will involve the screening of 10,000 Singaporeans aged 40 to 70. Professor Roger Foo, Director, Cardiovascular-Metabolic Disease Translational Research Programme, NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine and Director, Cardiovascular Research Institute, National University Heart Centre, Singapore tells us more about this.

 

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Daily Cuts - No respite for Gaza

Israeli forces push into south Gaza's biggest city - Khan Younis, further displacing Palestinians. The UN expects one million people to flee to the last remaining shelters - Rafah. US officials think the Gaza ground operation could end by January. Arnold Gay and Andrea Heng spoke with Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, Middle East Fellow, Baker Institute, Rice University about the situation there.

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Daily Cuts - Making Orchard Towers' revamp successful

Singapore Today's Lance Alexander and Daniel Martin speak with Eugene Lim, Key Executive Officer, ERA Singapore, about what Orchard Towers needs to do to successfully leave its seedy reputation behind.

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Daily Cuts - Gearing Singapore up for the future of AI

Singapore Today's Lance Alexander and Daniel Martin speak with Arif Khan, CEO and Founder, Alethea AI, about how the updated National AI Strategy could impact local industry players.

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Daily Cuts - Culinary travels to Peru and Mexico

Melanie Oliveiro speaks with Peruvian-Mexican husband-wife chef couple, Daniel and Tamara Chávez who founded/run the restaurants Tinto and Canchita. The couple will talk about their culinary travels in their home countries and other places.

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Daily Cuts - Feasting on a Peranakan Banquet

Melanie Oliveiro speaks with local author Arthur Lim about his new book ‘Tok Panjang: The Evolution of a Peranakan Heritage Feast’. Tok Panjang refers to the iconic Peranakan banquet of a wide range of classic, signature dishes. Lim will discuss how his book delves into the origin of the practice – right down to why designated dishes were served together on particular types of crockery. Lim will also talk about his mother’s time-tested Tok Panjang recipes.

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