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Daily Cuts - At one with nature with the Singapore Writers Festival 2024

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In ‘Culture Club’ Melanie Oliveiro chats with Yong Shu Hoong, Festival Director of the Singapore Writers Festival (SWF) and Cheyenne Phillips, local arts practitioner and SWF 2024 panelist. The pair reveal what's in store for this year's SWF. Yong talks about the theme ‘In Our Nature’ and what new features have been added to the annual festival. He also shares the names of well-known authors and presenters gracing SWF 2024. Phillips discusses her role as an SWF panelist taking part in ‘Land x People’, a panel discussion exploring how climate dischange impacts indigenous communities and marginalised groups.

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Daily Cuts - Could we see electric buses becoming commonplace soon?

Singapore Today's Lance Alexander and Daniel Martin speak with Transport Analyst Terence Fan, who’s also Assistant Professor of Strategic Management, SMU, about how Sengkang West bus depot is set to be the first multi-storey depot in Singapore to support the large-scale deployment of electric public buses.

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Daily Cuts - How big is Singapore’s vaping problem?

Singapore Today's Lance Alexander and Daniel Martin speak with Sean Ang, a nicotine cessation counsellor and pharmacist at Success Alliance Enrichment, about how nearly 4,000 people in Singapore were caught possessing or using vapes, a 52% rise from the previous quarter.

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Daily Cuts - How true stories inspired these films about rescue dogs

In ‘Culture Club’, Melanie Oliveiro speaks with Dr Siew Tuck Wah, President of animal welfare group SOSD,  Jeremy Ng and Zhang Minhua, Co-Directors of FRIDA, and Tejas Ewing, Director of ECHO. They're the creative folk involved in HOMEBOUND, an anthology of five short films that celebrate stories of resilience, hope, and healing surrounding rescue dogs in Singapore.  

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Daily Cuts - Welcoming over 400 art lovers to sketch iconic local architecture

In ‘Destination Anywhere’, Melanie Oliveiro speaks to Michelle Choy, Senior Executive of Venue Programming at Arts House Limited and Rosalind Lim, Founder and Director of Art Apart Fair. They’ll talk about Sketch Up 2024, an outdoor mass sketching event happening at the heart of the Civic District. Over 400 artists and art lovers will be tasked with sketching the architectural features of the iconic Victoria Theatre & Victoria Concert Hall.

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Daily Cuts - The Singapore Maritime Foundation's Novel Approach

The Singapore Maritime Foundation has commissioned a children’s book titled Secrets of Singapore: Mission Maritime to raise awareness about the industry among the young. To find out how the book was conceived and whether it hit the mark, Work It's Chew Wui Lynn and Cheryl Goh speak to Han Jie Hui, Deputy Director at the Singapore Maritime Foundation, Edmund Wee, Publisher of Epigram Books, as well as 11-year-old student Elysha Silverster.

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