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Daily Cuts - Tech layoffs 2025: Why companies like Meta, Microsoft and Amazon are cutting jobs

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The tech industry is undergoing another round of job cuts in 2025, with leading companies reducing their workforce to streamline operations and focus on strategic goals. This follows a trend of mass layoffs that began in 2022, with job losses continuing through 2023 and 2024. Andrea Heng and Elakeyaa Selvaraji speak with Florie Mae Salazar, Senior Manager, Tech & Transformation Division at Robert Walters Malaysia, for more.

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Daily Cuts - A Letter to Myself: Chef Sam Wong retraces his footsteps from shoes to Cantonese cuisine

Chef Sam Wong is a self-taught chef behind Lucky House Cantonese Private Kitchen, which he runs with his wife, Dr Yap Lee Yee from their house along Upper East Coast Road. Chef Sam shares how he started in the wholesale shoe business and trekked his way to becoming such a sought-after Cantonese private home dining chef with a waiting list that can stretch up to a year.

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Daily Cuts - Myanmar’s civil war: Trouble still looms one year on

Violence threatens to escalate in Myanmar, one year after rebel armies launched an offensive on the military junta, plunging the country into civil war. Its embattled ruling generals are pushing to hold another election, this time in 2025. Leong Wai Kit, CNA's Johor-Myanmar-ASEAN correspondent brings Andrea Heng and Hairianto Diman the latest from the troubled nation. 

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Daily Cuts - The DeepSeek debacle: A deep dive into China’s AI disruptor

China’s DeepSeek AI app shook the tech world, even prompting US President Donald Trump to declare it a wake-up call for American tech companies. A week after its launch, it became the most downloaded AI chatbot in app stores, and challenged the need for costly materials and operations for AI. Andrea Heng and Hairianto Diman study the implications of DeepSeek on the industry and find out what its limitations are for users – and its creator, Liang Wenfeng. On Asia First, Kyle Rodda, Senior Financial Market Analyst, Capital.com speaks with them.

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Daily Cuts - Is a pay rise enough to retain healthcare workers?

Singapore Today's Lance Alexander and Daniel Martin speak with Dr Jeremy Lim, Associate Professor at the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, NUS, on whether a pay rise is enough to retain healthcare workers. 

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Daily Cuts - Understanding the US helicopter-plane crash

Singapore Today's Lance Alexander and Daniel Martin speak with Shantanu Gangakhedkar, Senior Consultant, Aerospace and Defense, Asia-Pacific, Frost and Sullivan, on what could have happened. 

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