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2 months ago | 
channelnewsasia.com | Nikki Yeo
Just weeks into his second term in the White House, United States President Donald Trump has introduced a slew of trade policies aimed at exerting political pressure on other countries. What do these moves towards protectionism mean for consumers and businesses, including those in Singapore?
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Dec 7, 2024 | 
channelnewsasia.com | Nikki Yeo
Question: What does a typical 10-year-old Singapore child think about? For many youngsters here, life revolves around fretting over grades, exams, hanging out with friends and heading home after school. Yet, such routine preoccupations were far from the thoughts of a boy named Daren Kwang Poh Chun. At 10, his biggest worry was not scoring As, it was figuring out where to sleep each night. Still in primary school, he ran away from home after enduring a difficult relationship with his two stepfathers.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
channelnewsasia.com | Nikki Yeo
With more than 20 years of experience in male-dominated industries including the technology field, Ms Andrea Tan has had her share of sexist encounters at the workplace. Despite having more than a decade of experience in the financial sector, she was once told that she was not needed to join a discussion about infrastructure because it was deemed “too technical” for her.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
channelnewsasia.com | Amanda Yeap |Nikki Yeo
Feeling frustrated over the uncertainty of balloting for public badminton courts, Ms Yeo who is an avid player decided to join a badminton group in the hope of getting to play her favourite sport consistently. Before this, the 51-year-old and her friends found it hard to book just one court for their friendly game. Then, after she joined the group, she was shocked to find that there were middlemen offering games at various school halls and sports centreson multiple days throughout the week.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
channelnewsasia.com | Nikki Yeo
Since graduating in May this year with a degree in business analytics from a Singapore university, Ms Dhiya Diyana Irwan has sent out 50 job applications but has yet to secure a full time role. For the 23-year-old and many of her peers, the job market appears to be “really bad”.
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Oct 26, 2024 | 
channelnewsasia.com | Nikki Yeo
On weekday evenings after wrapping up my work day, I often head straight to my pizzeria where I pull a night shift laying out dough and toppings for hungry customers. That is, my virtual pizzeria, serving a range of unique toppings spanning eggplant to artichokes – all from my living room. While free of the heat from a real oven and many other challenges of working ata food-and-beverage business, I have my work cut out for me.
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Oct 19, 2024 | 
channelnewsasia.com | Nikki Yeo
These days, I give myself only a brief glance in the mirror – partly because life demands attention elsewhere, but also as a way to avoid dwelling on flaws. A colleague introduced me to "body neutrality" – a concept that suggests a neutral stance towards one's appearance, rather than the celebration encouraged by body positivity. Neither loving nor hating your body sounded more attainable, but still easier said than done.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
channelnewsasia.com | Taufiq Zalizan |Nikki Yeo
NUCLEAR NOT HIGH PRIORITY The headway that Southeast Asian countries have been making with renewables points to the possibility of greening the regional power grid without having to adopt nuclear energy. “According to industry analysis, Southeast Asia has abundant renewable energy potential, estimated to be 40 to 50 times the current total electricity generation in the region,” noted Mr Sharad Somani, partner and head of infrastructure advisory at professional services firm KPMG Asia Pacific.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
channelnewsasia.com | Nikki Yeo |Taufiq Zalizan
Thanks to pop culture depictions of war and news headlines of disasters, any mention of nuclear technology is likely to conjure up images of an atomic bomb explosion or a nuclear reactor meltdown. But in reality, nuclear energy has been harnessed for peaceful purposes to produce electricity since the 1950s. Today, more than 400 reactors are operating in some 30 countries, generating almost 10 per cent of the world’s electricity.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
channelnewsasia.com | Taufiq Zalizan |Nikki Yeo
Southeast Asia's only nuclear power plant lies around 70km west of the Philippine capital Manila. But since its completion in 1985, it has never been powered up. Never mind that the 620-megawatt Bataan nuclear power plant was the culmination of a nearly 30-year nuclear development programme that took more than a decade and over US$2 billion to build. It became a casualty of bad timing.
