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Daily Cuts - Soaring With Sky Shen: A Musical Journey

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Melanie Oliveiro speaks with singer-songwriter Sky Shen about his music career which has been going from strength-to-strength since winning the 2015 SPD Youth Aspiration Award, an award which allows youths with disabilities develop their interests and talents. Shen, an artist with muscular dystrophy, will talk how video game music sparked his songwriting journey, what it’s like performing to a global online audience when live-streaming his music on platform Twitch.tv, topics his music covers and how non-profit organisation ART:DIS has played a significant role in his life.


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Daily Cuts - AI in elections: What to look out for and why it matters

The year of elections has been fraught with fake news, foreign interference and internet trolling, even by the world’s most influential figures. A recent example: Elon Musk making a Kamala Harris deep fake advertisement go viral. On Asia First, Andrea Heng and Hairianto Diman examine the potential uses of generative AI in the political landscape with Dr Karryl Kim Sagun Trajano, Research Fellow for Future Issues and Technology (FIT), RSIS.

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Daily Cuts - Failure in sports: Why defeat is so hard for athletes

More than physical endurance and attaining outstanding athletic abilities, coping with failure is arguably one of the toughest aspects of competitive sport. Together with an expert Dr Jay-Lee Nair, Sports & Exercise Psychologist, Changi General Hospital, Hairianto Diman and Susan Ng draw the curtains to unveil the deeper rationales behind the screams of anguish, broken racquets and fiery post-match press conferences. 

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Daily Cuts - Why India is so susceptible to landslides & what will fix it

Deadly floods triggered by heavy rain have claimed the lives of hundreds in a district in Kerala, India, mostly tea estate workers. Hairianto Diman and Susan Ng examine the factors that make India and parts of South Asia more susceptible to weather-related disasters like landslides than other regions in the world with Dr. Nirupama Agrawal, Professor of Disaster & Emergency Management, York University, Toronto

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Daily Cuts - Tech Talk: Samsung's new Buds and Ultra Watch

Singapore Today’s Daniel Martin speaks with Kevin Tan, Head of Product Marketing, Mobile eXperience, Samsung Singapore, about their new Buds and Ultra Watch.

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Daily Cuts - #TalkBack: Have you been put off buffets?

On #TalkBack, Singapore Today's Lance Alexander and Daniel Martin speak with Chan Fong Ying, Senior Food Safety Consultant, ISRC Pte Ltd, about whether the recent spate of food poisoning incidents here have put some people off buffets.

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