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Singapore dreaming: Painting his world, from behind a mental institution's walls
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Family Ties
A 71-year-old and her grandchild on a green journey together, to find closeness again
Emma wants to save the earth from choking on waste. Mildred doesn’t see the point. On The Red Dot finds out whether this ...
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A Singaporean tourist, a Cambodian tuktuk driver, and their unexpected friendship #AcrossAsean
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Entrepreneurs
Trust and respect: Why Muslim women are this home salon owner's biggest clients
Half of hairstylist Winnie Lai's customers in her HDB home are Malay-Muslims who appreciate the privacy. Some have become fast ...
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The Investigative Trail
How a S$3,000 bill became S$30,000: The truth behind retailers' instalment plans
Lured by low monthly repayments, some buy their electronics and furnishings on hire purchase, not realising how much higher ...
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His music of yesteryear makes the sick, lonely elderly dance and smile once more.
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Stories of Survivors
Left half-paralysed in a holiday crash, she walks at her wedding three years on
A New Zealand holiday ended in a horrifying accident and life in a wheelchair. But Jean Ling tells On The Red Dot how she ...
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She gave everything up to save Malaysia's wild gibbons
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Facing Ageing
'Like a knife poking my heart': Loss, loneliness and the killing pain of elderly depression
Chronic illnesses beset them, they lose loved ones, and their memory plays tricks on them. Depression is a battle many seniors ...
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This 81-year-old granny from Taiwan is shattering track records and preconceptions about aging.
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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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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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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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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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