Your Way Home with Hongbin Jeong

Explosions rang out before dawn in Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, and several cities, after Russia announced a military operation. Shehzad Haque and Melissa Hyak spoke to Pushan Dutt, Professor of Economics and Political Sciences, INSEAD about the situation in Ukraine.

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Hong Kong has announced a S$139 billion budget for next year with most of the money devoted to dealing with its deteriorating Covid-19 situation. Rachel Kelly spoke to Claire Huang, Hong Kong correspondent for The Straits Times to discuss the key takeaways from the 2022-23 budget, as well as updates and analysis from the territory.

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In The Straits Times' The Big Story, Multimedia journalist Hairianto Dirman spoke to Associate Professor Alex Cook, vice-dean of research at NUS' Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health about Singapore's present Covid-19 situation with new cases jumping to a record high 26,032 on Tuesday. The previous highest number of cases recorded was 19,420 on Feb 15.

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The Singapore Budget 2022 statement unveiled ambitious targets to tackle climate change, including an increase in carbon tax and plans to achieve net zero by mid-century.

On Eco Money, hosts Shehzad Haque and Melissa Hyak spoke to Ng Wai Mun, Assistant Editor, Eco-Business on the sustainability initiatives in this year’s Budget. 

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The carbon tax rate in Singapore will be increased from the current $5 per tonne of emissions to between $50 and $80 by 2030, a move that will help the nation reach new, more ambitious climate goals.

Finance Minister Lawrence Wong said in his Budget speech that the aim is for emissions to dwindle to net zero by or around 2050, 

On Sustainable Singapore, hosts Shehzad Haque and Melissa Hyak spoke to Som Shantanu, Regional Engineering Director of GE Gas Power on what the carbon tax price increase means for the energy market in Singapore.

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