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On Market View, Prime Time's Bharati Jagdish spoke with Geoff Howie, SGX Market Strategist to make sense of the week’s market sell-off and Chinese banks cutting a key interest rate for long-term loans by a record amount, a move that would reduce mortgage costs and may help counter weak loan demand caused by a property slump and Covid-19 lockdowns. The five-year loan prime rate, a reference for home mortgages, was lowered to 4.45% from 4.6%. 

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On SGExtra, Prime Times’s Timothy Go and Bharati Jagdish spoke with Anjali Raguraman, Consumer Correspondent, The Straits Times to find out about the exciting things restaurants and other food services firms can look to, under the refreshed industry transformation road map that was announced on May 19.

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According to a recent study, workers in Singapore have high expectations of being given a pay rise as costs of living increase amid a sharp labour crunch. In The Spotlight, Prime Times’s Timothy Go and Bharati Jagdish spoke with Adrian Choo, CEO, Career Agility International to find out if now is a good time to ask for a pay raise.

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With Singapore's trio of shooters Teh Xiu Hong, Teo Shun Xie and Amanda Mak clinching their second gold medal at the SEA Games on Friday (May 20) in the women's 10m air pistol team event, Team Singapore has secured 45 gold medals, hitting The Straits Times' forecast for the contingent before the Games began.

It also means Team Singapore have produced at least a third-best away showing at the SEA Games. The team may add more medals to their haul with the remaining events taking place over the weekend before the Games wrap up on Monday.

In The Straits Times’ The Big Story, Multimedia journalist Hairianto Dirman spoke with Sports correspondent Sazali Abdul Aziz, who is covering the biennial meet in Hanoi, to find out more.

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Mental health in the workplace is top of mind for everyone these days. While a lot has changed about what we understand about mental health at work, and how widespread poor mental health is, it's worth taking a look at the basics.

In The Spotlight, Prime Time's Timothy Go and Bharati Jagdish spoke with Sanjeev Magotra, Founder and CEO of Joye to find out ways organisations can ensure workplace wellbeing.

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