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Daily Cuts - Singapore oil slick: How yacht businesses are coping with the spill

Clean-up efforts continue on Singapore’s beaches following an oil spill resulting from a vessel allision at sea. Asia First's Andrea Heng and Hairianto Diman venture out to better analyse the ripples of impact from the slick that’s hugging the coastlines of Singapore and the Southern Islands. They check in with Jelissa Mei, marketing manager, Zenith Yacht Charters whose yacht charter business operations have been greatly affected.  

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Daily Cuts - YAØ: The Rising Star on the Block

Melanie Oliveiro speaks with YAØ, whose music covers hip-hop, new wave pop and Japanese City Pop. He also won the first-ever Singapore Youth Music Awards’ ‘New Kid on the Block’ category. YAØ will talk about his latest singles, ‘Come Back’ and ‘Life Goes On’, discuss working with other local singer-songwriters, and his journey to Japan to collaborate with a music producer there.

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Daily Cuts - Waves of Change: Advancing Singapore's Water Sustainability

Melanie Oliveiro speaks with a local water business founder and entrepreneur – both who have gained reputation and influence in the international water industry. Hydroleap’s founder Dr. Mohammad Sherafatmand and InnovEng’s business owner Evelyn Tan will discuss trends in Singapore-centric wastewater treatment, enhancing water sustainability, treatment technologies and new innovations in smart water monitoring.

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Daily Cuts - Challenges in oil spill clean-up efforts

Singapore Today's Lance Alexander and Daniel Martin speak with Sue Ye, Founder, Marine Stewards, about the challenges involved in an oil spill clean-up efforts.

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Daily Cuts - Could touching or feeding wild birds lead to bird flu infection?

Singapore Today's Lance Alexander and Daniel Martin speak with Joe Kam, Wildlife Specialist, JK Wildlife and Dr Sanjeev Shanker, Emergency Medicine Specialist running the Urgent Care Clinic at StarMed Specialist Centre, about whether touching or feeding wild birds could lead to bird flu infection.

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Daily Cuts - Making accounting sexy again

A taskforce was set up to ensure Singapore has enough accountants and dispel the perception that the profession is boring - a shortage crucial to avoid for the future of Singapore as a financial hub. But can it succeed in making accounting sexy again? Work It's Stanley Leong and Cheryl Goh crunch the numbers with Naveen Sasidaran, partner at RSM Singapore, an assurance, tax, advisory, as well as business support services firm.

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