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Daily Cuts - Platform workers get more protection, but who pays the extra costs?

Parliament has passed a landmark bill that offers better protection for platform workers. While a triumph, it is set to cost more for platform companies, which will likely pass on those costs to consumers.  Andrea Heng and Hairianto Diman explore further with a commentary author, Terence Ho, Associate Professor in Practice, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, who says paying the higher fees could be well worth it.

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Daily Cuts - #TalkBack: With better protections, can platform work in Singapore now be a lifelong career?

Singapore Today's Lance Alexander and Daniel Martin speak with Dr Mathew Mathews, Principal Research Fellow, Institute of Policy Studies (IPS) and Head of its Social Lab & Adrian Choo, CEO and Founder, Career Agility International, about whether platform work here can become a lifelong career for Singaporeans - with better protections in place.

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Daily Cuts - TEL train fault: Was it linked to the EWL service disruption?

On the day we saw resumption of services on the East-West Line (EWL), we saw another train fault. This time on the Thomson-East Coast Line (TEL) between Woodlands North and Lentor. Are the two linked? Transport analyst Walter Theseira, Associate Professor with the Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS) School of Business, weighs in.

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Daily Cuts - EWL disruption: How it has impacted Singaporeans' public transport commute

Singapore Today's Lance Alexander and Daniel Martin speak with transport analyst Walter Theseira, Associate Professor with the Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS) School of Business, about how the recent East-West Line service disruption has impacted how Singaporeans look at their public transport commute.

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Daily Cuts - Here's how you can get paid to travel

In ‘Destination Anywhere’, Melanie Oliveiro speaks with Hendric Tay, Co-Founder of The Travel Intern, a local community of storytellers and explorers. Tay talks about traveling and getting paid – a proposition that’s hard to refuse! If you’re thinking of embarking on this dream job, you may want to learn more about the type of content worthy of sponsorship.

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Daily Cuts - Becoming a Documentary Storyteller in Singapore

We shine the spotlight on a man who's normally behind the camera. How did someone with a Diploma in Hospitality and Tourism Management as well as a business degree end up making documentaries? Ong Kah Jing -- better known as OKJ -- shares his story with Work It's Chew Wui Lynn and Cheryl Goh.

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