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Daily Cuts - S1E32: Technology gives him a voice

Toh Kok Peng has Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, or ALS, a neurological disease that causes muscle weakness, which affects his speech, among many other things. He started leaning on eye-tracking technology to find his voice and continue in his career. He “speaks” to Daniel Martin in this edition of Tech Talk through this technology.

Guests: Toh Kok Peng, Vice President, Motor Neurone Disease Association Singapore; Tan Xuet Ying, Treasurer, International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication. She is also a Senior Speech Therapist at Tan Tock Seng Hospital.

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Daily Cuts - S1E265: En route to a more sustainable future

Singapore Today's Lance Alexander and Melanie Oliveiro speak with the Centre for a Responsible Future's Richard Hartung about how his organisation empowers people to make healthy and sustainable choices through advocacy, education and engagement.

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Daily Cuts - S1E264: Cashing out your HDB nest egg

Singapore Today's Lance Alexander and Melanie Oliveiro speak with Ku Swee Yong, Director at International Property Advisor, about whether is it a good time for elderly flat owners to cash out their HDB nest eggs, as resale values climb in recent years.

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Daily Cuts - S1E263: International Jazz Day

Singapore Today’s Melanie Oliverio and Justine Moss speak with Tan Weixiang Tan, the Jazz Association of Singapore’s Senior Associate Music Director and Norwegian clarinet virtuoso Felix Peikli who’ll be coming here just for the concert “Swing! Swing! Swing!” It celebrates UNESCO International Jazz Day, which will be held on Sunday, 30 April.

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Daily Cuts - S1E262: The Kuihmaker

From savoury epok-epok to sweet wajik gula melaka - Singapore Today’s Melanie Oliverio and Justine Moss speak with the man behind The Kuihmaker, a home based business that has grown quickly into a physical store in Bukit Batok West.

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Daily Cuts - S1E261: Eldest Daughter Syndrome

Why is #EldestDaughterSyndrome trending on TikTok and does it rob eldest daughters of their childhood? Singapore Today’s Melanie Oliverio and Justine Moss speak with Professor Yang Hu from the Department of Sociology at Lancaster University to unpack this issue.

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