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Daily Cuts - Local tunes on the move

You've heard the hear65 team on air with local artists - now, they’ve partnered with SMRT for their “I Play SG Music” campaign, bringing local music to commuters. Melanie Oliveiro speaks with Ruby Tan, Manager of Performing Arts Music of National Arts Council and Liyana Sungep, Senior Business Development Manager at Bandwagon about the challenges of bringing local tunes to public spaces.

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Daily Cuts - Talking about the (hot) weather with Dr Winston Chow

At a special outdoor broadcast at Asia Square on 28 September, we wanted to know if high temperatures will become the norm, and how we can prepare for it. Joining us to address this hot topic was Dr Winston Chow, Co-chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group II; he's also the first Singaporean to take up such a role. 

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Daily Cuts - Stretching our dollar with the Weeblings

At a special outdoor broadcast at Asia Square on 28 September, we chatted with TikTok "finfluencers" Sara and Aaron Wee — better known as The Weeblings — and got some tips on how young professionals in Singapore can make their budget go further.

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Daily Cuts - New recommendations for career planning with more autonomy

Singapore Today's Lance Alexander and Daniel Martin speak with NTUC Assistant Secretary-General Desmond Choo and Sarah Lim, a manager in the civil service who's also a caregiver, about the labour movement's 10 recommendations to give workers here more autonomy in career planning.

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Daily Cuts - Thriving in the emotional wilderness

Melanie Oliveiro speaks with John Lim - Speaker, Registered Social Worker and author of "Take Heart: Thriving in the Emotional Wilderness". He’ll talk about what inspired him to write the book about a young man who attended to his depression by using “call to action” ways – like unlearning what society teaches us. He also discusses how he counsels youths with mental distress as well as working with families and individuals facing severe distress in their lives.

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Daily Cuts - A licky bit of home in Hanoi

Melanie Oliveiro speaks with Kimberly Lim, a writer at RICE media, about her solo trip to Hanoi and finding a little bit of home there. While travelling around, she discovered that our familiar Singapore Ice Cream Sandwich (Ice Cream Loti) has found success in the Vietnamese street markets, more so than back home.

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