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Daily Cuts - UN Global Refugee Forum

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The Global Refugee Forum has just opened with a call for an "immediate and sustained humanitarian cease-fire" in Gaza. The three-day forum, which is set to end on Friday, is the largest international meeting on refugee issues. Andrea Heng and Susan Ng spoke with Mary Crock, Professor of Public Law, University of Sydney who tells us the importance of this Refugee Forum. She started with the importance of this Refugee Forum.

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Daily Cuts - Talking about the (hot) weather with Dr Winston Chow

At a special outdoor broadcast at Asia Square on 28 September, we wanted to know if high temperatures will become the norm, and how we can prepare for it. Joining us to address this hot topic was Dr Winston Chow, Co-chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group II; he's also the first Singaporean to take up such a role. 

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Daily Cuts - Stretching our dollar with the Weeblings

At a special outdoor broadcast at Asia Square on 28 September, we chatted with TikTok "finfluencers" Sara and Aaron Wee — better known as The Weeblings — and got some tips on how young professionals in Singapore can make their budget go further.

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Daily Cuts - New recommendations for career planning with more autonomy

Singapore Today's Lance Alexander and Daniel Martin speak with NTUC Assistant Secretary-General Desmond Choo and Sarah Lim, a manager in the civil service who's also a caregiver, about the labour movement's 10 recommendations to give workers here more autonomy in career planning.

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Daily Cuts - Thriving in the emotional wilderness

Melanie Oliveiro speaks with John Lim - Speaker, Registered Social Worker and author of "Take Heart: Thriving in the Emotional Wilderness". He’ll talk about what inspired him to write the book about a young man who attended to his depression by using “call to action” ways – like unlearning what society teaches us. He also discusses how he counsels youths with mental distress as well as working with families and individuals facing severe distress in their lives.

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Daily Cuts - A licky bit of home in Hanoi

Melanie Oliveiro speaks with Kimberly Lim, a writer at RICE media, about her solo trip to Hanoi and finding a little bit of home there. While travelling around, she discovered that our familiar Singapore Ice Cream Sandwich (Ice Cream Loti) has found success in the Vietnamese street markets, more so than back home.

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