Stay ConnectedSynopsis: Almost every weekday, our ALL-IN-ONE channel showcases discussions on Singapore youth perspectives and social issues, geopolitics through an Asian lens, health, climate change, personal finance and career.
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Produced by podcast editor Ernest Luis & The Straits Times, SPH Media.
Tipping points are a grave threat but it’s not too late for humanity to reduce the risks.
Synopsis: Every first and third Sunday of the month, The Straits Times analyses the beat of the changing environment, from biodiversity conservation to climate change.
The world is on the brink of major changes to the natural world that could have truly devastating consequences for billions of people.
These are parts of the natural world that are at risk of abrupt and irreversible changes. For instance, runaway melting of the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets; collapse of a key ocean circulation in the Atlantic; melting of permafrost; dieback of the Amazon rainforest and warm-water coral reefs. There are many more.
What’s causing this? Man-made global warming is a major reason. So is pollution and over-exploitation of resources.
Planetary tipping points represent one of the gravest threats to humanity, yet many people seem unaware of the danger. And some of these tipping points might be close to, or already past the point of no return.
Yet, there’s still time to stop others from occurring if we act fast.
To learn more about this, we speak to Professor Tim Lenton, Director of the Global Systems Institute at Exeter University in Britain. Tim recently led the biggest study yet into global tipping points.
Highlights of conversation (click/tap above):
1:29 What are planetary tipping points and why should we be concerned?
2:23 What are some examples and how close are we to some of these tipping points?
4:06 And what are the major tipping point risks for Asia?
9:01 Tell us more about the danger from a cascade of tipping points, where one major planetary change causes a domino effect of triggering other tipping points?
14:29 The good news is that there are steps humanity can take – positive tipping points. What are some examples?
17: 40 But humanity has already caused major changes to the planet. Does that mean we have to adapt to a rapidly changing world no matter what we do?
Produced by: David Fogarty (dfogarty@sph.com.sg), Ernest Luis and Amirul Karim
Edited by: Hadyu Rahim
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This Budget 2024 special analysis examines how measures announced would benefit Singaporean youth, from education, to housing, childcare and inflation.
Synopsis: Titled “Building our Shared Future Together”, Budget 2024 was delivered by Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Lawrence Wong in Parliament on Feb 16, 2024.
The plan for revenue and expenditure of the Singapore government was laid out to address immediate challenges like cost-of-living pressures while investing in longer-term goals of strong economic growth, better jobs and a culture of lifelong learning.
We examine how Budget 2024's measures announced would benefit Singaporean youth, from education, to housing, childcare and inflation.
In this special episode, ST assistant podcast editor Lynda Hong hosts two guests:
Ms Cherlyn Ng, 35, a video producer who has two young children. Ms Ng is also a young union leader with Creative Media Publishing Union, which is affiliated to NTUC.
Mr Jod Gill is global employer services partner at Deloitte Singapore.
Highlights (click/tap above):
1:46 Should the SkillsFuture Level-Up Programme, which gives $4,000 to a Singaporean worker aged 40 and above, also in future, include workers in their 30s?
4:38 Cherlyn on how the new SkillsFuture Level-Up programme might in future, help young mothers restart their careers for example; Jod on the impact on younger workers
7:40 Thoughts on the financial support from the (Open Market) Voucher under the Parenthood Provisional Housing Scheme for young couples waiting for Build-To-Order (BTO) homes.
9:08 Would new subsidies for pre-schools be enough to push Ms Ng to consider having a third child? Pre-school subsidy indicative of inflation pressures on younger families?
11:25 Cherlyn on renewed support for cost-of-living measures like CDC vouchers and U-save rebates; Jod on how personal tax rebates can help cushion higher cost of living
15:40 Reacting to how ITE graduates will get S$5,000 when enrolling for a diploma, and a S$10,000 CPF top-up when attaining it
Read ST's Budget 2024 coverage: https://str.sg/6kzj
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Former South Korean foreign minister Kang Kyung-wha also ponders the challenges posed by Kim Jong Un’s moves on missiles and Moscow, and Seoul’s ties with Japan.
Synopsis: Every second Friday of the month, join The Straits Times' associate editor and senior Asia columnist Ravi Velloor, as he distils his experience from four decades of covering the continent.
In this episode, Ravi speaks with Dr Kang Kyung-Wha, the incoming President and CEO of Asia Society. In 2017, she was the first woman to be appointed foreign minister of South Korea, holding the post until early 2021.
They discuss how she handled the Trump administration as foreign minister, the South’s position on nuclear deterrence vis a vis a provocative Pyongyang, and her plans for Asia Society.
Highlights (click/tap above):
4:38: The US is “certainly overextended”; will US interest in Asia survive a Trump return?
10:11 US-China tensions “will probably increase”
15:30 On North Korea: “War preparation is not the right interpretation”
22:36 Analysing the Kim Jong Un-Putin relationship; does South Korea intend to go nuclear?
30:30 On her experience on multilateral diplomacy
34:54 Will Asia Society open a China office?
Produced by: Ravi Velloor (velloor@sph.com.sg) and Fa’izah Sani
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Love is in the air for these wushu athletes.
Synopsis: The Straits Times looks at the talking points in sport every second Wednesday of the month.
In this episode of Sports Talk, Deepanraj Ganesan gets into the Valentine’s Day mood and spoke to a sporting couple in wushu exponents Jowen Lim and Vera Tan.
The pair started dating in 2015 and have since gotten engaged. Lim and Tan who had a good year on the sporting front with medals at the World Championship also have plans to get married pretty soon.
In this episode, they speak about how it all started, whether their relationship has affected their personal ambitions and what’s next for them in and out of wushu.
Highlights (click/tap above):
1:00 How Jowen Lim and Vera Tan fell in love with Wushu
2:15 On meeting each other for the first time
6:20 Do Lim and Tan avoid speaking about Wushu away from competition and training?
9:00 What is the best thing about having a partner who is also an athlete?
11:15 What is next for both Tan and Lim in 2024 both in and out of Wushu?
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Produced by: Deepanraj Ganesan (gdeepan@sph.com.sg), Amirul Karim & Eden Soh
Edited by: Eden Soh
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A seasoned career coach shows what career coaching entails, using host Tay Hong Yi's CV as an example.
Synopsis: Every second Monday of the month, The Straits Times helps you take charge of your budding career and realise your ambition.
Career coaching is a term frequently bandied about in discourses surrounding employment and employability, and related policies.
Though the basic concept is intuitive, some workers may be hesitant to pursue coaching as they are not sure what issues career coaching can help address.
That is why host Tay Hong Yi looks at how career coaching can benefit workers in this episode.
His guest is: Mr Tan Kok Guan, founder of career coaching firm Broccolise
Highlights (click/tap above):
4:51 What should workers prepare before their first coaching session?
9:00 What is the range of career issues coaching can provide clarity on?
12:50 What is the structure of a career coaching session?
17:40 How competence and motivation are not the same thing
21:06 What does Hong Yi's CV show?
28:40 How to spot a good career coach to book sessions with?
Produced by: Tay Hong Yi (hytay@sph.com.sg), Ernest Luis, and Teo Tong Kai
Edited by: Teo Tong Kai
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Empathy for the generation divide and user behaviour patterns may need to be studied more as Singapore digitalises itself rapidly.
Synopsis: Every second and fourth Monday of the month, The Straits Times takes a hard look at social issues of the day with guests.
The hard deadline for full transition from an older card-based ticketing system to the account-based SimplyGo public transport payment system by June 1, 2024 eventually went away. This is after public outcry over SimplyGo’s inability to display fares and card balances at fare gates and bus card readers.
Such negative reactions have raised questions how impactful nationwide policies, like the adoption of SimplyGo, can be better communicated to the public. And is a one-size-fit-all approach even possible for Singapore’s rapidly ageing population that must constantly overcome the first hurdle in adapting to technology?
ST podcast editor Ernest Luis and assistant podcast editor Lynda Hong host two guest speakers in this episode:
Associate Professor Helen Ko from the Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS) for her insights on ageing issues
Ms Neeta Lachmandas, founder of ConsciousService, a training and consulting company, and also a former executive director of the Institute of Service Excellence at SMU and assistant chief executive of STB.
Highlights (click/tap above):
2:33 Technology and convenience versus customer experience and communication
4:55 Selling people the upside on digital policies as well as how to handle major changes; was this just an issue for the 'older' generation?
8:05 Tailoring "instructional design" - the art and science of teaching seniors
11:25 Understanding the need for bite-sized info in small steps across older generations, "empathy" in designing public policy for an increasingly ageing population
18:08 Contradictory "digital transformation" messaging not an issue exclusive to only Singapore
20:45 Why it's good to aim for "universal design"; why seniors are a highly diverse group
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We transport you to Keran, which sits on the Line of Control - a ceasefire line dividing Kashmir into territories administered by India and Pakistan.
Synopsis: Every first Friday of the month, The Straits Times chats with ST’s correspondents in the Asia-Pacific, the US and Europe, about life as it goes on, amid the screaming headlines and bubbling crises.
At a time when people-to-people links are practically non-existent between India and Pakistan, Keran is a rare place where greetings, waves and even smiles could be exchanged. A river, less than 100 metres wide, divides both sides.
Keran, a tiny village of around 1,500, is nestled in a valley within the part of Kashmir that is administered by India. It is here that tourism has boomed in recent years. Visitors come - to stay in houses pockmarked by mortar fragments and to peep into the Pakistan-administered side of the land.
In this episode, ST’s foreign editor Li Xueying chats with ST’s India correspondent Debarshi Dasgupta, who also shares his personal history - of family members being torn asunder after the 1947 partition of South Asia.
Highlights (click/tap above):
1:14 Why India is moving to promote border tourism
3:15 A beacon of hope but one single major terrorist attack in Kashmir can set this story back by many, many years
7:31 A deep and haunting sense of loss when families are torn apart after South Asia was carved up in 1947
13:25 Difficult questions remain: what are the steps that India and Pakistan are taking to heal this long festering bilateral wound?
16:30 Other frontier towns to visit in India
Produced by: Li Xueying (xueying@sph.com.sg), Ernest Luis and Fa’izah Sani
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Wearable tech can help us monitor our heart.
Synopsis: Every first and third Wednesday of the month, The Straits Times helps you make sense of health matters that affect you.
Today, we can easily find heart rate monitors in wearable devices like smartwatches and fitness trackers. As Singapore shifts the centre of gravity in healthcare from acute hospitals to the community with its preventive care strategy Healthier SG, such wearable technology will likely become more popular as they enable us to take charge of our health.
In this episode, ST senior health correspondent Joyce Teo speaks with Clin Assoc Prof Ching Chi Keong, a Senior Consultant at the National Heart Centre Singapore about how one can make use of these devices and just how accurate they are.
Highlights (click/tap above):
1:55 How do ECG readings taken with a smart watch compare with a traditional ECG done in a medical setting? How accurate are they?
3:41 Interpreting ECG readings on your phone and what it means to have a sinus rhythm
11:09 When should you seek medical help?
14:35 Which group of people should use wearable devices to monitor their heart rate?
Produced by: Joyce Teo (joyceteo@sph.com.sg), Ernest Luis, and Eden Soh
Edited by: Eden Soh
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They share their experiences trying to be a part of the discourse at Davos.
Synopsis: The Straits Times speaks with young delegates at the World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting 2024 to find out about their experience.
The WEF, held in Davos, Switzerland, brings together some of the biggest names in politics, business and economics from all over the world every year.
But it has been criticised for being nothing more than a public relations exercise, with a lack of accountability and fading relevance.
Some of the world’s most passionate and engaged young changemakers were in Davos this year. ST’s political correspondent Goh Yan Han speaks with some of them to hear how they tried to make their mark.
They are:
Benjamin Von Wong, Canadian artist and activist
John Dongo, Zimbabwean youth mental health advocate
Luona Cai, partner at Xishi Magic Bag, from China
Marie-Claire Graf, Swiss environmental activist
Daniel Liu, Singaporean co-founder of Morrow Intelligence
Saravanan Sugumaran, Singaporean co-founder of Morrow Intelligence
Highlights (click/tap above):
2:59 Thoughts on Davos and being at the WEF for the first time
11:05 Marie-Claire describes the beauty and the ugly at the WEF
14:14 Trying to be a part of the bigger conversation
25:22 How the WEF can be more relevant to young people
25:45 John Dongo on the need to talk about youth mental health at the WEF
Produced by: Goh Yan Han (gyanhan@sph.com.sg), Ernest Luis and Amirul Karim
Edited by: Amirul Karim
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To secure his 500 colleagues' jobs, this CEO is making them developers. Bonus segment: What could the Dragon Year bring you?!
Synopsis: Every first Monday of the month, listen to the Work Talk podcast to help you work smarter, think deeper and get ahead in your work life.
Vital is the Singapore public service’s central agency for corporate shared services entrusted with managing and transforming corporate services delivery for the government.
For years, Vital had been humming in the background, paying out the salaries and expense claims of more than 100,000 public servants in Singapore.
No one paid it much attention, as its 500 workers chugged along, cutting, pasting, reconciling spreadsheets. Much of their work was laborious, tedious, and honestly, could have been done by machines.
Four years ago, something happened. The agency got a new chief, a new dream, and for its 500 workers - a new aspiration to become citizen developers.
In this episode of Work Talk, ST senior correspondent Krist Boo takes you into Vital to meet Mr Dennis Lui, its chief executive and hear how employees are automating their own work processes.
And in a bonus podcast segment - with Chinese New Year days away - hear what the 2024 Dragon Year could bring you, from Master Ken Koh from The House of Feng Shui.
Highlights (click/tap above):
2:26 Vital's existential crisis; finding the right partner to customise its courses for retraining
5:18 Validation boost: In 2020, the government gives it the mandate to transform corporate services delivery
6:28 The elephant in the room: Addressing fears of automation, advice for employers in similar situations
8:59 Join us at a work station in Vital's office to hear about a citizen developer's work
10:38 Bonus segment: How will your dragon year be?
Produced by: Krist Boo (kristb@sph.com.sg), Ernest Luis, Teo Tong Kai and Amirul Karim
Edited by: Teo Tong Kai
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