Deep Dive

Record prices have been set in the private residential market and HDB prices have been rising steadily over the past year. What’s behind these trends and who is driving demand? Significantly, does this point to a creeping wealth gap making HDB flats unaffordable for young first-time home buyers? Lin Suling speaks to Ismail Gafoor, CEO of PropNex and Dr Lee Nai Jia, Deputy Director of the Institute of Real Estate and Urban Studies (IREUS) at the National University of Singapore.

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Primary school girls posing with their friends, intimate pictures leaked by ex-lovers and even innocent personal Instagram videos. Thousands of images and videos were bartered in shady online chat groups. Who are these people and what goes on in this sleazy Internet underworld? Nisha Rai, an NUS undergraduate who uncovered the latest tranche of 60 such chat groups, gives Lin Suling a harrowing account and AWARE volunteer and lawyer Priscilla Chia explains what needs to change.

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The 4G leaders called DPM Heng’s decision to step aside a setback to succession planning. What’s behind the decision? What implications does this delay have for the ruling party, the Government and the country? And could the upcoming Cabinet reshuffle provide clues on the kind of leader a post-COVID Singapore needs? Lin Suling sits down with Dr Gillian Koh, Deputy Director of the Institute of Policy Studies and Dr Eugene Tan, law professor at the Singapore Management University.

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She’s a distinguished diplomat with a string of honours to her name. Professor Chan Heng Chee, Ambassador-at-Large at Singapore’s foreign affairs ministry and chair of the Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities at the Singapore University for Technology and Design speaks to Lin Suling on her new book World In Transition: Singapore’s Future, women in leadership and the changes she sees in Singapore society.

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How effective can such diets be for weight loss, reducing your cholesterol or burning fat? Can they be dangerous? And what role does culture play in weight management? Lin Suling finds out from Aptima Nutrition’s Jaclyn Reutens and NUH Director of the Centre for Obesity Management and Surgery Asst Prof Asim Shabbir.

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