After nearly 30 years in service, the 1777 non-emergency ambulance hotline will be phased out next year, after just 6 percent of bookings were made through it. So why are so few people using it? Daniel Martin finds out from Chew Lip Heng, Consultant and Trainer in Emergency and Crisis Management, OPSTAR and Serve2Lead.

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Breastfeeding may be natural, but getting started is not always easy. Cheryl Goh speaks with Dr. Mythili Pandi, Integrative Family Physician, Lactation Consultant and Health Advocate to explore how labour, delivery and those first hours after birth can shape the experience, as well as the support that can help mothers and babies find their rhythm.

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Prego’s Tuscan Wine Dinner brings together regional Italian dishes and wines selected to complement every course. Cheryl Goh explores the stories behind the menu, the development of flavours from the region, and how the Prego and Culina teams created the wine pairings with Davide Bizzarri, Executive Italian Chef at Prego, Fairmont Singapore, and Rosario Ferraioli, Operations Manager at Prego, Fairmont Singapore.

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Private markets are becoming more accessible as tokenisation lowers investment thresholds. But wider access also raises questions about liquidity, complexity and investor protection. Cheryl Goh speaks with Inmoo Hwang, Co-Founder, Group Managing Director and CFO of ADDX, who breaks down where Asia-Pacific investors are putting their money, and whether AI, stablecoins and digital-market infrastructure can deliver lasting value.

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The new Online Safety Commission (OSC) to help victims of online harms secure swift content takedowns and restrict offender accounts has opened its doors on Monday (29 Jun). It’s meant to help victims deal with online harms such as doxxing, online harassment, stalking and the sharing of harmful content via a more direct legal avenue to seek help. With the OSC in effect, will it drive people to behave better online or will it make people complacent, leaving the policing to the authorities? Andrea Heng and Hairianto Diman speak with Andrea Chan, Group Head of TOUCH Counselling & Psychological Services, and Dymples Leong, Associate Research Fellow, Centre of Excellence for National Security, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, to find out. 

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On today's (2 July) markets analysis on Open For Business, Andrea Heng and Hairianto Diman speak with Lorraine Tan, Director of Equity Research for Asia at Morningstar.

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The World Bank plans to phase out lending to China by 2031, marking the end of Beijing's status as a borrower after decades of support. The move reflects China's rise to the world's second-largest economy and follows years of pressure from the US to redirect development financing to nations with greater needs. Andrea Heng and Hairianto Diman speak with Johan Sulaeman, Professor of Finance, NUS Business School, to examine what the shift tells us about China's changing role in the global financial system.

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Recently, you’d heard of two kids breaking into an MRT train’s back cabin, wreaking chaos once they got in – the illegal act filmed and put online for all to see. So… Pre-teens prying open train cabin door; why did nobody stop them? Would you have? Daniel Martin discusses further with Dr Carol Balhetchet, Clinical Psychologist, Certified Hypnotherapist and Director of Dr Carol & Associates.

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Over 30,000 advisory notices have been issued over the past three years to tackle indiscriminate bicycle parking. So are you parking your bicycle indiscriminately because you don’t know or don’t care? Daniel Martin discusses further with Associate Professor Zhou Yi, Engineering Cluster, Singapore Institute of Technology.

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Guest: Sani Hamid, Director of Wealth Management, Financial Alliance

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