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Daily Cuts - A Letter to Myself: For anti-scam specialist Justina Pang, crimefighting runs in the family

Justina Pang spent about five years as a police officer, including a year in the special victims unit. She was inspired by her grandfather, a police officer who sustained a gunshot wound while fending off a robbery. But she decided to hang up her crimefighting uniform to prevent an increasingly worrying type of crime — scams. As an anti-scam specialist with Singapore's largest bank, DBS, Justina helps protect customers from losing their savings — and peace of mind — to unscrupulous scammers. She shares what she's learned from her career journey, and what she personally does to protect herself and her family from scams.

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Daily Cuts - Budget 2025: Parents having their third child or more get further funding

For each third and subsequent child born from Tuesday (18 February), Singaporean parents will receive up to S$16,000 more in financial support under a new scheme for large families. Andrea Heng and Hairianto Diman look at the extent these measures will encourage parents to have more children.

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Daily Cuts - Trump tariffs make currency trading cool again after years of decline

Following U.S President Donald Trump’s return to office and his announcement of imposing tariffs, currency trading is back in the spotlight. It went largely out of style in 2008, after the global financial crisis when central banks began altering interest rates in sync. Andrea Heng and Hairianto Diman look at how Trump tariffs have driven up interest in currency trading again, and the currencies that stand to benefit.

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Daily Cuts - Budget 2025: How families could benefit

Singapore Today's Lance Alexander speaks with Chong Ee Jay, a working dad of 1 and Lydia Lim, a working mum of 2, about how certain Budget 2025 policies could support families with their expenses.

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Daily Cuts - Budget 2025: How local business transformation could benefit

Singapore Today's Lance Alexander speaks with Kok Ping Soon, CEO, Singapore Business Federation and Ang Yuit, President, Association of Small and Medium Enterprises, about how Budget 2025 policies could benefit business transformation this year.

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Daily Cuts - Budget 2025: How our economy could benefit

Singapore Today's Lance Alexander speaks with Heron Lim, Assistant Director and Economist, Moody's Analytics and Geoff Howie, Market Strategist, SGX, about what the new Budget announcements could mean for Singapore's economic outlook in 2025.

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