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Daily Cuts - New 2-year credit counselling pilot programme to help those in debt

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According to Credit Counselling Singapore (CCS), there was an 18 percent increase in the number of requests for credit debt in the first half of 2024, compared to the last six months of 2023. To help deal with the rising numbers, CCS will be rolling out a new two-year pilot programme. Andrea Heng and Hairianto Diman speak with Tan Huey Min, General Manager, Credit Counselling Singapore, to understand what credit counselling entails and the cases the agency has handled.

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Daily Cuts - Revisiting school days with SINGAPO人 Youth Takeover

In ‘Culture Club’ Melanie Oliveiro speaks with Sharon Lim, Assistant Manager of Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre (SCCC) Programmes and Bartholomew Ting, Cardboard Sculptor. The two are involved in the fifth edition of the SCCC’s annual youth festival, REMIX: SINGAPO人 Youth Takeover. Ting and Lim describe how this year’s edition takes on a back-to-school theme, and is packed with school-inspired experiences, inviting all visitors to take a walk down memory lane. 

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Daily Cuts - Job leveling and the gender pay gap

Why does the gender pay gap still exist in this day and age and how can job leveling help to bring about a more equitable salary structure? Work It’s Cheryl Goh and Chew Wui Lynn discuss this with Bhavik Vashi, Managing Director for Asia and the Middle East of software company Carta.

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Daily Cuts - A Letter to Myself: Startup founder Kenneth Lou on trusting intuition, family, and how he increases his "luck surface area"

Kenneth Lou, co-founder of Seedly, is now on a mission to make an impact on personalised healthcare with his current startup, Mito Health. He shares how his successful entrepreneurial journey has taught him the importance of trusting his intuition, the support of his family, and how he increases his "luck surface area".

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Daily Cuts - A Letter to Myself: Mark Yuen on the humbling and humanising experience of giving free haircuts to the underprivileged

Mark Yuen, a retired wealth management professional, and his team of volunteers go all over Singapore to give free haircuts to the elderly and underprivileged households. Since they began doing this in 2017, they’ve brought this simple but meaningful gift to thousands of individuals. Mark shares how this experience has helped him realise the importance of staying true to oneself, humility, and humanity.      

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Daily Cuts - I survived breast cancer once, but the journey after next can last a lifetime

To mark Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Hairianto Diman speaks with a survivor, Nikita Wadhwani-Sajnani, about the aftermath of the illness. 

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