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Daily Cuts - Soaring With Sky Shen: A Musical Journey

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 - Being better protected in the event of another global tech outage

Singapore Today's Lance Alexander and Daniel Martin speak with Associate Professor Goh Weihan from the Infocomm Technology Cluster at the Singapore Institute of Technology about being better protected in the event of another global tech outage.

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Daily Cuts - Insect Protein - Better than Meat?

In July 2024, the Singapore Food Agency allowed 16 species of insects to be approved as food in Singapore. Work It's Chew Wui Lynn and Cheryl Goh speak with Hiew Yuen Sheng, Director at insect protein manufacturer Altimate Nutrition, to find out whether the announcement has boosted business, and how they have refreshed their product lineup in anticipation of rising demand.

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Daily Cuts - The Art and Science Behind The Life of An Icon, Frida Kahlo

In ‘Culture Club’, Melanie Oliveiro speaks with Gail Chin, co-curator of ‘Frida Forever and exhibition producer, ArtScience Museum, together with Joshua Lau, assistant curator, ArtScience Museum, about the ongoing immersive exhibition ‘Frida Kahlo: The Life of an Icon’. The exhibition's Southeast Asian premiere features eight thematic spaces that bring Mexican artist Kahlo’s story to life. Chin and Lau also discuss ‘Laid Bare: Frida's Inner World’ which reveals a more intimate portrait of Kahlo during the final years of her life.

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Daily Cuts - Fashion for Cancer

In ‘Made in SG’, Melanie Oliveiro finds out more about Fashion For Cancer (FFC) 2024 – a charity fashion show with cancer survivors as runway models. Ong Bee Yan, founder of Fashion for Cancer will talk about its origins, how her team chose this year’s cancer survivors cum runway models, and how much FFC aims to raise for cancer research and patient support. Prem & Dorothy, a husband and wife team – also both cancer patients – joins the conversation to share their experience taking part in FFC 2024.

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Daily Cuts - How Singapore’s schools are changing curricula to keep up with rapid tech growth

These days, it’s no longer enough to just have a general tech degree. Some Institutes of Higher Learning (IHLs) in Singapore are revising their IT and digital modules for their undergraduates. Andrea Heng and Hairianto Diman find out how one IHL is revamping their curriculum on Asia First with Professor Steven Wong, Director of Centre for Digital Enablement, Singapore Institute of Technology

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