Daily Cuts

About Daily Cuts

The best interviews from CNA 938 on current affairs, health, entertainment and money, curated daily The views and opinions shared during this podcast series are those of the hosts and guests and do not necessarily reflect the views of Mediacorp Pte. Ltd. or its group of companies.

Publisher

CNA

Category

news

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

14 Mar 2024

Latest episode

6 Mar 2025

Latest episodes

1 of 2,460 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   6 Mar 2025

   Tourism tax – the effectiveness and impact on tourism figures

   A new tourism tax is set to come into force in Thailand. Travellers will be charged 300 baht or S$11.80. Thailand is not the first country to impose this tax. Bali has imposed something similar and Japan is considering increasing its tourism tax to fund initiatives that address overtourism. Andrea Heng and Hairianto Diman assess the effectiveness of such tax and the impact it has on the tourism figures with Gary Bowerman, director, Check-in Asia and Asia Travel & Tourism Analyst See omnystudio.com/listener (https://omnystudio.com/listener) for privacy information.

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   6 Mar 2025

   Singapore begins hiring foreigners as auxiliary cops

   Singapore has begun recruiting auxiliary police officers from five more countries, to meet rising security needs amid a shrinking local workforce. As of December, such officers have been recruited from Sri Lanka, Myanmar, the Philippines, India, and China. They form around 3% of the total auxiliary forces in Singapore. Andrea Heng and Hairianto Diman find out what this solution looks like in the long run with Claribel Low, Senior Analyst, Social Cohesion Research Programme, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University See omnystudio.com/listener (https://omnystudio.com/listener) for privacy information.

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   6 Mar 2025

   Would you get beauty treatments in someone else's home?

   An article out on CNA.asia looks at the rise of home-based salons and their draw compared to the traditional brick-and-mortar shops. Andrea Heng and Hairianto Diman speak with Cleo Chang, owner, home-based eyebrow embroidery business on how she ensures and assures potential customers of the safety of her treatments, and her customer Stacy Chng on why she has decided on a home-based salon over a traditional shop. See omnystudio.com/listener (https://omnystudio.com/listener) for privacy information.

Inside a recent episode

Wine flights with The Vine Migration

Published 22 Mar 2024 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Each one with its own unique story or journey, as you guys mentioned as well. There are certain flights which are a little bit more, I would say, classical, you know, for guests who are not so adventurous, you know, with their wines. We do have flights like based off regions, like the Bogon, which is all wines from Burgundy. We have the flight Coptoscana, which is wines from the Tuscany region in Italy as well. All the way to interesting flights based off grape varietals, like the what I will call the triple K, but it's actually known as the Avarinio, Avarinio, Avarinia. I know it's a bit of a mouthful, that's why I call it the triple A. […]

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Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Dr Mustafa Izzuddin
• Chen Wei Zhong
• Justin Chou
• Dr Jong Eun Lee
• Bernie Utchenik

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YouTube views

1,399,130,112

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Spotify

5.0 / 5

5 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 83 / 100

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Quality

94

Social presence

0

YouTube

93

Engagement

85

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