Your Way Home with Hongbin Jeong

Bernard Lim speaks to Kurt Wee, CEO and Winston Lumenta, Head, Corporate Development, Celligenics, one of the nominees for this year’s OCBC Emerging Enterprise Awards 2021. This year, the awards recognise small and medium-sized enterprises that demonstrate innovation, resilience, and sustainability despite going through tough circumstances.

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There may be signs that surging natural gas prices are starting to ease, but it's worth revisiting how we got to this situation where some energy producers are being forced to switch to oil and even coal to cover energy shortages ahead of winter in the Northern Hemisphere. It's also happening on the heels of the COP26 Summit in Glasgow. JP Ong spoke to Dr Fereidun Fesharaki, the Chairman of FGE, to trace how we got to these energy shortages, if Singapore's strategy to focus on long-term contracts is a better tactic in these times, the politics behind the shortages, and if the transition to cleaner energy is more complicated than first thought.

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In The Spotlight, Prime Time's Rachel Kelly and Timothy Go spoke to Alex Scott, Climate Diplomacy Lead, E3G, an independent climate change think tank, on what a US-China climate deal means for environmental and geopolitical progress.

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In The Straits Times’ The Big Story, s new protocol, dubbed Vaccination-Differentiated Safe Management Measures + Test, will be piloted to allow fully vaccinated people to do a test before participating in an expanded list of activities.

Multimedia journalist Hairianto Diman spoke to Richard Ireland, acting president of the Singapore Association of Convention and Exhibition Organisers and Suppliers about this new development.

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According to the Urban Redevelopment Authority, new home sales excluding executive condominiums, rebounded by 9% in October from the month before. Meanwhile, more Housing Board upgraders are snapping up condominium units. Prime Time's Timothy Go and Rachel Kelly speak to Nicholas Mak, ERA Realty Network's head of research and consultancy who shares the reasons behind these trends. 

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