Your Way Home with Hongbin Jeong

Over the past ten years, Singapore has shown great progress in creating safe working environments with a significant decrease in labour fatality figures. However, this year has the highest number of workplace fatalities, which sparks concern in the public. Most accidents are believed to be avoidable. To better improve safety at the working site, AI is being implemented as the current feasible solution.

In The Spotlight, Prime Time’s Timothy Go and Bharati Jagdish spoke with Udayagiri Vishnu Saran, CEO and Founder, Invigilo Technologies to find out more. 

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US Federal Reserve officials are set to hold a two-day meeting to discuss its monetary policy decision, which increases the fear among investors. There will possibly be a 75 basis point interest rate hike to cool red-hot inflation in the US. In Market View, Prime Time’s Finance Presenter Chua Tian Tian spoke with Suan Teck Kin, Head of Research, UOB on what to expect in the coming week. 

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Industrial real estate has been a top performer among commercial real estate  investments over the past decade. In fact, industrial REITs outperformed all other REIT sectors by over double in 2021. Can industrial REITs outperform in 2022? On SGExtra, Prime Time’s Timothy Go and Bharati Jagdish spoke with Dennis Yeo, Head, Investor Services and Logistics & Industrial, APAC, Cushman & Wakefield to find out more . 

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Malaysia has partially lifted its ban on chicken exports, allowing poultry producers and importers in Singapore to bring in live kampung chickens from across the Causeway. According to importer Kee Song Food, the Malaysian authorities allowed the company to resume importing live kampung chickens on Tuesday (June 14). It will also start bringing in black chicken from Malaysia from Saturday (June 18).

In The Straits Times’ The Big Story, Multimedia journalist Hairianto Dirman spoke with Journalist Melissa Heng to find out more about the developments.

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In the Spotlight this week: What's the latest on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, China’s continuing battle with Covid-19 and a debate in the EU about what really qualifies as “Green Investments”. Timothy Go and Bharati Jagdish catch up with Rob Hugh-Jones, Editor, BBC for the global headlines he’s tracking in the week ahead. 

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