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Daily Cuts - Reading the signals from a record year of elections

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2024 has been a chaotic, rollercoaster year of political polling in many nations across the world. Andrea Heng and Hairianto Diman speak to Associate Professor Chong Jia Ian, Department of Political Science, National University of Singapore, Non-Resident Scholar, Carnegie China, to identify the common threads as well as the anomalies from the record year of elections, and read the signals sent by the global population. 

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Daily Cuts - Crisis in South Korea: A failed arrest, America wades in

Is it another win for South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol, after investigators failed to arrest him over his short-lived martial law decree? And what influence does U.S Secretary of State Antony Blinken wield over the political crisis there? Andrea Heng and Hairianto Diman examine the latest developments with Sung Yoon Lee, Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

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Daily Cuts - Man arrested for allegedly slapping a child

Joel Chua and Tay Soo Sien speak with Dr Annabelle Chow, Principal Clinical Psychologist at Annabelle Psychology, about a recent incident at Westgate shopping centre, where a 38-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly slapping a 6-year-old boy at an indoor playground.  

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Daily Cuts - NUS High School’s nanosatellite eyes space launch next March

Joel Chua and Tay Soo Sien speak with Vincent Kwok, one of the team members who helped build NUS High’s nanosatellite, and Lin Yicheng, who came back as an alumni to help with the space project, about what inspired them to be involved in this nanosatellite project, which is set to be launched into space next March.

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Daily Cuts - Dramatic rise in hotspots in the region over the new year

Joel Chua and Tay Soo Sien speak with NUS Professor Rajasekhar Balasubramanian, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Design and Engineering, about how a dramatic rise in hotspots in the region over the new year might lead to a haze situation in Singapore.

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Daily Cuts - How chronic pain and poor mental health go hand in hand 

How does chronic pain place a strain on a country's healthcare system and also cost its economy billions of dollars? And on a personal level, how could it affect your mental wellbeing? Made in SG’s Melanie Oliveiro speaks with Alliance Counselling’s Dr. Adriana Banozic – she provides counselling for adults and families with chronic pain.

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