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The Investigative Trail
The banana money trail: Prices rising in Singapore, but farmers not gaining
The cost of bananas from the Philippines has shot up, but farmers are struggling with losses, so where is the money from ...
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Inside the Storm
How a Buddhist monk turned CEO revived Japan Airlines from bankruptcy
When JAL was state-owned, it had picked up some bad habits. After privatisation, it lacked the instinct for survival. Inside ...
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Entrepreneurs
The challenges entrepreneurs face in Singapore, and what it takes to succeed
Is Singapore a good place for inventors? What rejections should they be prepared for in running a start-up? Their struggles ...
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Stories of Survivors
A dream unfolds for artist living in IMH, with a special exhibition and meeting
As a child, he learned painting from eminent artists like Choo Keng Kwang. After 40 years, Sim Kah Lim gets to see his idol ...
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Home, truly, after 8 years: A divorced mum's search for housing security
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Facing Ageing
8 seniors on a social media mission to build a S$15 million home
Almost all of them had never used a smartphone, but within weeks, these elderly residents of St John's Home learnt to shoot a ...
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She gave everything up to save Malaysia's wild gibbons
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Family Ties
‘Masculinity crisis’ in China leads parents to enrol kids in boot camp
A Beijing club has set out to save young boys from being ‘effeminate, petty, weak-minded and emotionally fragile’, and to turn ...
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Super Children
Raising an 11-year-old maths marvel who craves a challenge
Aarushi Maheshwari can work on university-level problems and is a chess champion. But with her parents not wanting her to skip ...
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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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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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InspirAsian: The Series
They are the individuals who bring light to others' lives - nominated by CNA Insider viewers in Malaysia and Indonesia.
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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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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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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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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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