The Straits Times Podcasts
The Straits Times
Synopsis: Our ALL-IN-ONE channel showcases our discussions on Singapore youth perspectives and social issues, geopolitics through an Asian lens, health, climate change, money, career, sports, pop culture and music.
Follow our shows on your favourite audio apps Apple Podcasts, Spotify or even ST's app, which has a dedicated podcast player section.
Produced by podcast editor Ernest Luis & The Straits Times, SPH Media.
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S1E3: Boss, I am not data stupid; you never trained me: Work Talk Podcast
The Straits Times Podcasts
04/27/22 • 15 min
S1E127: Every tool in the climate shed: How CO2 removal is a step towards net-zero
The Straits Times Podcasts
07/20/24 • 25 min
As more carbon dioxide accumulates in the atmosphere, the urgency is growing for safe and sustainable methods to remove this main greenhouse gas from the air to limit the impact of climate change.
Synopsis: Every first and third Sunday of the month, The Straits Times analyses the beat of the changing environment, from biodiversity conservation to climate change.
CO2 is the main greenhouse gas in the atmosphere. We can’t see it, we can’t smell it but we can definitely feel its growing impacts as the planet heats up with devastating consequences. And every year, it keeps accumulating.
Human activity is producing about 40 billion tonnes of CO2 a year. That’s mainly from burning fossil fuels and deforestation.
To fight climate change, we not only need to slash CO2 emissions, we would also need to remove billions of tonnes that our human activities had earlier emitted into the atmosphere.
And that means dramatically scaling up carbon dioxide removal technologies. We’ll never reach the Paris Agreement’s climate targets by 2050 unless we remove at least four times more CO2 from the atmosphere every year than we do at present.
That’s the conclusion of a major study on carbon dioxide removal released in June 2024.
So what exactly is carbon dioxide removal, or CDR? And what is needed to really get investment pumping?
In this episode, ST's climate change editor David Fogarty hosts one of the lead authors of the report, Gregory Nemet, a Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s La Follette School of Public Affairs in the United States. Greg studies the process of technological change and the ways in which public policy can affect it.
Highlights of conversation (click/tap above):
1:44 How does carbon dioxide removal (CDR) help in the fight against climate change?
3:12 The difference between CDR and carbon capture and storage (CCS)
4:58 Main findings from the recently published global report on CDR
7:58 Examples of the different types of CDR
11:43 What are the costs?
19:55 What are the environmental risks from CDR? How to ensure scaled-up methods can be sustainable?
Produced by: David Fogarty ([email protected]), Ernest Luis & Hadyu Rahim
Edited by: Hadyu Rahim
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Special edition series:
True Crimes Of Asia (6 eps): https://str.sg/i44T
The Unsolved Mysteries of South-east Asia (5 eps): https://str.sg/wuZ2
Invisible Asia (9 eps): https://str.sg/wuZn
Stop Scams (10 eps): https://str.sg/wuZB
Singapore's War On Covid (5 eps): https://str.sg/wuJa
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S1E104: Eliminating cervical cancer in Indonesia a movement, not a programme
The Straits Times Podcasts
12/21/23 • 16 min
Indonesia’s bold plan to catch cervical cancer early will see 50-60 million women screened and vaccinated
Synopsis: Every fourth Friday of the month, The Straits Times' US Bureau Chief Nirmal Ghosh shines a light on Asian perspectives of global and Asian issues with expert guests.
Indonesia’s bold plan to eliminate cervical cancer as a public health concern - the country’s cervical cancer rate is higher than the global average - is being approached not as a programme but as a movement, says its Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin
The plan aims at using thousands of primary health clinics and also private sector partners across the sprawling and diverse country, to screen 50-60 million women early for cervical cancer - because catching it early is the key to bringing down the numbers.
Currently roughly 70 per cent of cases are diagnosed when they are already in an advanced stage - and the fatality rate is high.
The Minister, a nuclear physicist and among other things former CEO of Indonesia’s micro lending bank giant Mandiri Bank, spoke to Asian Insider host Nirmal Ghosh on this episode, stressing that early intervention and a massive vaccination drive, enabled by wide buy-in across the government and private sector - the result of a wide consultation process - will reduce the fatality rate.
Highlights (click/tap above):
00:48 Indonesia's cervical cancer rate is higher than the global average
04:28 Reducing mortality rate to below 30 per cent, possible but with early detection
06:37 The key strategy is to fix this problem earlier, not later
07:45 First: Massive immunizations for about 50 to 60 million Indonesian women
11:16 Approach as a movement, not a programme
12:55 Providing healthcare facilities to private sectors - free screening, free vaccine
Produced by: Nirmal Ghosh ([email protected]) and Fa’izah Sani
Edited by: Fa’izah Sani
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Your Money & Career: https://str.sg/wB2m
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#PopVultures: https://str.sg/JWad
Music Lab: https://str.sg/w9TX
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Special edition series:
True Crimes of Asia (6 eps): https://str.sg/i4Y3
The Unsolved Mysteries of South-east Asia (5 eps): https://str.sg/wuZ2
Invisible Asia (9 eps): https://str.sg/wuZn
Stop Scams (10 eps): https://str.sg/wuZB
Singapore's War On Covid (5 eps): https://str.sg/wuJa
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S1E21: Return To Office: Why are we still talking over each other?
The Straits Times Podcasts
09/03/23 • 19 min
Could “return to office” save workplace toxicity?
Synopsis: Every first Monday of the month, the Work Talk podcast helps you work smarter, think deeper and get ahead in your work life.
“There are elements of working hybrid that can easily lead to situations that become toxic. And that is one of the things that we want to recognise, so we can recognise when those are happening and cut them off,” says associate professor Mark Mortensen, of organisational behaviour at Insead university.
If you are reading this on the way to the office, or at your workplace, you may be one of those who wonder why you have been summoned back to the office.
About 79 per cent of Singapore workers are showing up on mandated days, more than the global average of 75 per cent, says a report by workplace strategy and design firm Unispace.
In this episode, ST's senior correspondent Krist Boo hosts Prof Mortensen, who cautions that long-term hybrid work could lead to workplace toxicity. Joining the podcast too, is Ms Yoshi Kakimoto, head of talent acquisition at Informa, and Mr Mark Ng, the social content lead at employment portal JobStreet.
They round up hybrid work from the perspectives of business, HR and Gen Z, and also question if the downsides of seeing too much of one’s colleagues might justify working from home.
Highlights (click/tap above):
5:29 Do companies offering hybrid work have an edge in hiring?
8:25 Why doesn’t anyone talk about the downsides of Return To Office?
12:07 How could bosses resolve the discord over the number of remote days?
14:21 Is an equilibrium in sight?
16:39 How do young people find mentorship in a hybrid world?
Produced by: Krist Boo ([email protected]), Ernest Luis, Teo Tong Kai and Hadyu Rahim
Edited by: Teo Tong Kai
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Music Lab: https://str.sg/w9TX
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Special edition series:
True Crimes Of Asia (new): https://str.sg/i44T
The Unsolved Mysteries of South-east Asia (5 eps): https://str.sg/wuZ2
Invisible Asia (9 eps): https://str.sg/wuZn
Stop Scams (10 eps): https://str.sg/wuZB
Singapore's War On Covid (5 eps): https://str.sg/wuJa
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S1E33: Hong Kong's vanity car plates a creative outlet as freedoms narrow
The Straits Times Podcasts
06/06/24 • 18 min
The affordable luxury of personalised car licence plates are proving an enduring and endearing avenue for self-expression in a changing Hong Kong
Synopsis: Every first Friday of the month, The Straits Times chats with ST’s correspondents in the Asia-Pacific, the US and Europe, about life as it goes on, amid the screaming headlines and bubbling crises.
HEY YU, DREAMER, ADD OIL. The messages on Hong Kong's vanity car plates can draw nods of appreciation or chuckles for the city’s motorists. They can tell you a thing or two about their owners' status, sense of humour and beliefs.
Since the authorities made these special plates possible 20 years ago, Hong Kong has seen a proliferation of such plates on its roads. And along with it, communities have sprung up online devoted to sightings of this phenomenon.
In this episode, ST’s foreign editor Li Xueying chats with Hong Kong correspondent Magdalene Fung on the motivations behind this trend and what it reveals about Hong Kongers' deepest desires and obsessions.
Highlights (click/tap above):
0:50 Why vanity plates aren’t just for vanity’s sake alone
3:20 What Hong Kong’s vanity plates reveal about the city and its people
9:55 How a car with a special plate came to be impounded in Hong Kong on the anniversary of China’s Tiananmen incident
12:33 The biggest changes in Hong Kong society in recent years
Read Magdalene Fung’s article here: https://str.sg/KKxa
Produced by: Li Xueying ([email protected]) and Fa’izah Sani
Edited by: Fa’izah Sani
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Special edition series:
True Crimes Of Asia (6 eps): https://str.sg/i44T
The Unsolved Mysteries of South-east Asia (5 eps): https://str.sg/wuZ2
Invisible Asia (9 eps): https://str.sg/wuZn
Stop Scams (10 eps): https://str.sg/wuZB
Singapore's War On Covid (5 eps): https://str.sg/wuJa
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S1E1: 'My ISIS fighter brother turned me into an advocate against terror': Invisible Asia Ep 1
The Straits Times Podcasts
05/19/21 • 10 min
Invisible Asia Ep 1: 'My ISIS fighter brother turned me into an advocate against terror'
10:23 mins
Synopsis: The Invisible Asia Podcast is a special edition series in which The Straits Times casts the spotlight on people and communities living in the shadows of their societies where they exist largely unseen, unheard and little talked about. Do follow all nine episodes of Invisible Asia over the next two months on The Straits Times podcast channel on Apple podcasts, Spotify or Google podcasts.
The Straits Times' regional correspondent Tan Jia Ning narrates and also speaks to Muhammad In’am Amin, 44, in Indonesia.
He is the founder of Kopi Gandroeng in Jogjakarta, the base for his counter-terrorism organisation Yayasan Lingkar Perdamaian (Peace Network Foundation).
In'am's brother, Wildan Mukhollad, was the first Indonesian to die fighting for the Islamic State terrorist group in the Middle East, in 2014. Wildan was only 19.
- In'am recalls how Wildan became radicalised soon after leaving to study in Egypt (2:25)
- Their family is labelled as "terrorists" and ostracised in their village after Wildan's death (3:28)
- In'am rebuilds life in Jogjakarta, helping to pull vulnerable youth back from the brink of religious extremism (4:49)
- His strategy proves an effective alternative to the government’s deradicalisation programmes (6:17)
- The Quran's words of tolerance, mercy and kindness must ring louder than those of war and jihad, In'am says (8:35)
Read Tan Jia Ning's story here: https://str.sg/Jjhe
Produced by: Tan Jia Ning, Magdalene Fung, Ernest Luis & Adam Azlee
Edited by: Adam Azlee
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S1E1: Is there a pandemic turnover tsunami affecting Singapore companies? - Work Talk Podcast Ep 1
The Straits Times Podcasts
02/06/22 • 10 min
S1E9: From caviar to holidays to love, Japan still land of vending machines: Letter From The Bureau
The Straits Times Podcasts
03/03/22 • 22 min
S1E2: Is HR getting it wrong trying to police workplace romance? - Work Talk Podcast Ep 2
The Straits Times Podcasts
02/20/22 • 14 min
S1E79: Jowen Lim and Vera Tan on their love for wushu and each other
The Straits Times Podcasts
02/13/24 • 15 min
Love is in the air for these wushu athletes.
Synopsis: The Straits Times looks at the talking points in sport every second Wednesday of the month.
In this episode of Sports Talk, Deepanraj Ganesan gets into the Valentine’s Day mood and spoke to a sporting couple in wushu exponents Jowen Lim and Vera Tan.
The pair started dating in 2015 and have since gotten engaged. Lim and Tan who had a good year on the sporting front with medals at the World Championship also have plans to get married pretty soon.
In this episode, they speak about how it all started, whether their relationship has affected their personal ambitions and what’s next for them in and out of wushu.
Highlights (click/tap above):
1:00 How Jowen Lim and Vera Tan fell in love with Wushu
2:15 On meeting each other for the first time
6:20 Do Lim and Tan avoid speaking about Wushu away from competition and training?
9:00 What is the best thing about having a partner who is also an athlete?
11:15 What is next for both Tan and Lim in 2024 both in and out of Wushu?
Read: https://str.sg/iqt7
Produced by: Deepanraj Ganesan ([email protected]), Amirul Karim & Eden Soh
Edited by: Eden Soh
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Your Money & Career: https://str.sg/wB2m
ST Sports Talk: https://str.sg/JWRE
#PopVultures: https://str.sg/JWad
Music Lab: https://str.sg/w9TX
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True Crimes Of Asia (6 eps): https://str.sg/i44T
The Unsolved Mysteries of South-east Asia (5 eps): https://str.sg/wuZ2
Invisible Asia (9 eps): https://str.sg/wuZn
Stop Scams (10 eps): https://str.sg/wuZB
Singapore's War On Covid (5 eps): https://str.sg/wuJa
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How many episodes does The Straits Times Podcasts have?
The Straits Times Podcasts currently has 2079 episodes available.
What topics does The Straits Times Podcasts cover?
The podcast is about Podcasts, News Commentary and News.
What is the most popular episode on The Straits Times Podcasts?
The episode title 'S1E21: Analysing PAP's GE2020 vote share drop: The Big Story Podcast' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on The Straits Times Podcasts?
The average episode length on The Straits Times Podcasts is 16 minutes.
How often are episodes of The Straits Times Podcasts released?
Episodes of The Straits Times Podcasts are typically released every 22 hours.
When was the first episode of The Straits Times Podcasts?
The first episode of The Straits Times Podcasts was released on May 24, 2018.
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