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Daily Cuts - Putin in Pyongyang: What Russia’s leader is seeking from North Korea

North Korea welcomes Russian President Vladimir Putin for his first visit to the country in 24 years, in what’s been called a “friendly state visit” that will reportedly see the signing of a partnership agreement, which could include security issues. Asia First push the papers aside to find out what the Russian leader seeks from its Northeast Asian ally. Andrea Heng and Hairianto Diman speak with Dr Lim Tai Wei, Senior Lecturer, SUSS.

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Daily Cuts - A Letter to Myself: Isrudy Shaik on openness and possibly becoming Singapore's next "cattle king"

Isrudy Shaik, founder of ASAP & Co, reflects on his unlikely journey from art gallery coordinator to the proprietor of an acclaimed halal-friendly steakhouse, and how a prominent ancestor might have had something to do with it.

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Daily Cuts - Proposed deal between Income Insurance and Allianz: Boon or bane for customers?

Singapore Today's Lance Alexander and Hui Wong speak with Professor Lawrence Loh, Director, Centre for Governance and Sustainability, National University of Singapore (NUS) Business School, about concerns surrounding a proposed deal between Income Insurance and Allianz.

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Daily Cuts - $1.7 million sale of a premium Margaret Drive five-room HDB flat: A one-off outlier?

Singapore Today's Lance Alexander and Hui Wong speak with Eugene Lim, Key Executive Officer, ERA Singapore, about whether the record-breaking $1.7 million sale of a premium five-room HDB flat at Margaret Drive near the prime Dawson estate is a one-off outlier.

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Daily Cuts - Going Visà-vis with Travel Patterns in Asia

In ‘Destination Anywhere’, Melanie Oliveiro discovers more from Ken Wong, Head of the Asia Pacific Data Science Team, Visa Asia Pacific, about Visa's latest study on inbound tourism, spending patterns and travel behaviours — largely driven by Asian travellers — during high-traffic periods. Wong talks more on how and why travellers from Southeast Asia and East Asia are the top spenders; which country led the region with the highest growth rate; and what these tourists tend to spend on when going on last-minute shopping sprees.

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Daily Cuts - Is All the World's a Sea?

In ‘Culture Club’, Melanie Oliveiro speaks with Kuo Jian Hong, Artistic Director, The Theatre Practice and Ang Xiao Ting, Actor, about ‘All The World’s A Sea’ - a 2024 mainstage show in collaboration with Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay. Kuo and Ang delves into how this production stars an international team of artmakers from Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Nanjing and USA. They’ll also share how the show is a revisited adaptation of a 2018 Theatre Practice production, ‘I came at last to the seas’, which reflected on the multiple identities of the Chinese diaspora.

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