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Heartache and duty: At 77, the petrol pump attendant who must keep working
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He's the 23-year-old who wants to change the way we think about bus drivers
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Super Children
My 8-year-old, the computer prodigy - and why we moved him to Melbourne
Seth Yee knows three programming languages and thinks at the level of students more than twice his age. But he struggled with ...
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Singapore's butterfly children
Born with 'the worst disease you never heard of', they struggle to live normal lives as they grapple with stigma.
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Adopting Keyuan
China orphan who broke our viewers’ hearts finds a home, 4,500km away in Singapore
Eight-year-old Keyuan is spending his first Chinese New Year in Singapore with his new parents - who fell in love with him ...
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This 81-year-old granny from Taiwan is shattering track records and preconceptions about aging.
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The Investigative Trail
The monstrous scale of plastic bag wastage in Singapore
Do Singaporeans know the extent of the resources needed to fuel their plastic bag usage, and the amount of bags that is wasted?
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The farmer who gave them light
With little more than his own resourcefulness, he turned the river's power into electricity for 600 homes. #InspirAsian
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Inspir Asians
Once too poor for $1-lunch, hero now rallies a town to bring hope to families
T-shirt salesman Kelvin Wan used his modest income to help families in Kuching - until his own family couldn’t afford it anymore.
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ITE's special breed of teachers & students
It takes a resilient kind of student to rise above life's hard knocks; and an unorthodox sort of teacher to help them succeed.
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When your child teeters between life and death, these folks stand and hold the line... inside the children's ICU.
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Another year, another victory
When the doctors say your child has months to live - this is how far can love, hope and a fierce devotion take you.
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Food Heroes
Michelin-star chef Andre Chiang fulfils a promise to an ice-cream uncle
The day before he closed his restaurant for good, he handed Mr Ng Teak Boon - a familiar face to CNA Insider viewers - a ...
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Vanishing Home Recipes: Regional edition
We source the secrets of homecooks who are preserving dying or forgotten ways of preparing old-time recipes.
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Finding Sayfullah's Voice
"You could see from his body language he wanted to tell you a lot of things." The story of a boy, his iPad and a mother's love.
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A special school, built on love
They sold their house, she gave up her career. All to build a safe world for their son and hundreds of other youths.
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The Mavericks
For two champions, a lion's sacrifice of blood, sweat and family time
The training is hard, injuries are common, and their relationships with their loved ones suffer. But these two lion dancers ...
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A boy, an 83-year-old loner, and the unlikely friendship that changed them
What a 10-week social experiment in inter-generational relationships reveals.
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Why young Singaporeans are picking up dialects
More are going for classes in Hokkien, Teochew and Cantonese - in part to bridge the generation gap.
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Special Report
A CNA Insider series exploring the issues of elderly poverty in Vietnam, South Korea, Singapore and Myanmar.
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Stories of Survivors
Bankrupt, divorced, then son dies of cancer: How one man survived to rise above it all
He came close to ending his life and was locked up for drink-driving. Jimmy Ong tells On The Red Dot what gave him the will to ...
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A face of homelessness today
At 35, he sleeps in food outlets, washes up at public toilets - and has been trying to work and study his way out of destitution.
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Lives in limbo: CNA Insider's Lam Shushan documents the Rohingya refugees' tales of loss and of compassion
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Entrepreneurs
How Ninja Van's 'smart and ruthlessly aggressive' co-founder hooked a big investor
At 27 and with no logistics experience, Lai Chang Wen started a company that netted S$45m in investments. A mattress on the ...
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Inside the Storm
Once bleeding billions, how Philips reinvented itself for the digital age
Seemingly past its heyday as an electronics giant, the company turned to healthcare to survive – and now thrive. Inside the ...
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