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Up Close: GE2025 – At 35, he is an SME boss running to be a PAP MP for Sembawang GRC, with a nudge from Tin Pei Ling Mr Ng Shi Xuan, the youngest PAP candidate from Sembawang GRC, said that it’s good to have more private-sector candidates such as himself stepping forward. “We’re fully invested in Singapore … and we’re very hands-on people.” 👨‍💼🇸🇬 https://tdy.sg/42CCsGE @todayonlinesg

Up Close: GE2025 – Standing for elections is more about conviction than credentials, says WP new face and Harvard grad Mr Michael Thng's first introduction to WP was in 2006 when he attended the party's rally at the Serangoon Stadium as a junior college student. In the next General Election, he started volunteering and has continued since then, even while living in the US. 🎒🎓 https://tdy.sg/3S1KLa6 @todayonlinesg

Up Close: GE2025 – Son of Liu Thai Ker, this PAP new face in Aljunied GRC knows what it's like to give up on your dreams It was through a friend that Mr Daniel Liu got involved in volunteering at the Meet-The-People Sessions in Chong Pang ward under Nee Soon GRC. “I didn’t know what they did. I didn’t even know that the volunteers were there to write letters. I thought it was some kind of meet-and-greet thing.” 🎵🎧 https://tdy.sg/3EAROUe @todayonlinesg

Up Close: GE2025 – chance encounter queuing for food behind Leong Mun Wai set this PSP new face on the path to politics A conversation with his daughter cemented Mr Lawrence Pek’s decision to step forward and try to run as an election candidate for the Progress Singapore Party. “I remember she said something, like, ‘If you don’t do this, then who will?’” 👨‍👨‍👧‍👧 https://tdy.sg/4jjBc2j @todayonlinesg

Up Close: GE2025 – after rejecting the party several times, this PAP newcomer is now ready to give her all for this 'heavy responsibility' Ms Jasmin Lau, who did not want to join politics, once approached her former boss, Deputy Prime Minister Gan Kim Yong, for guidance. He gave her an hour of “marriage counselling” instead., she said. 🏀🙅‍♀️ https://tdy.sg/445coXd @todayonlinesg

Big Read: GE2025 – Deciphering the broader shifts behind PAP's record slate of new faces Picking potential election candidates from the private sector are nothing new for PAP. But this time, more business owners and executives are on the list. 🗳 https://tdy.sg/4cNgZzB @todayonlinesg

Up Close: GE2025 – He’s a prize-winning singer and Pritam Singh’s legislative assistant. Now add ‘potential candidate for Tampines GRC’ “That was the year that really shook me from my political slumber to my political awakening,” WP member and potential candidate Jimmy Tan said. Find out what made him join the opposition party. 🇸🇬 https://tdy.sg/4jyqPri @todayonlinesg

Up Close: GE2025 - The PAP new face whose friends thought he'd join an opposition party Mr Dinesh Vasu Dash loves Metallica and any “hardcore anti-establishment" type of music, he said. 🎸 https://tdy.sg/4lytL92 @todayonlinesg

Voices: As a child, I loved reading. As a parent, here’s how I’m teaching my kids to love it too "To me, reading isn’t just entertainment. It’s a great way to teach kids and youths values and life lessons," mum-of-five Kelly Ang said. 📖 https://tdy.sg/4czkjhI @todayonlinesg

Mental Health Matters: Harness the power of micro habits to make the changes you want in your life The advantage of micro habits is that they help you get the change you want without needing to shift to a high-achiever gear. 🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️💪 https://tdy.sg/42sesGa @todayonlinesg

Up Close: At 82, she dances, dresses as she wishes and dismisses her 'old-fashioned' critics “Sometimes they criticise how I dress, saying, ‘Oh, you’re so old you cannot wear that … you must only wear dull colours. You cannot be trendy. Your hairstyle must be the old fashioned type and you cannot wear nice earrings like these'," Madam Rosalind Koh said of her critics. 💃🏻🎤 https://tdy.sg/43K0vWw @todayonlinesg

Visual Stories: The Singapore human milk bank that dispenses ‘liquid gold’ to premature babies WATCH: "With three boys, it can be a challenge to expect one mummy to provide sufficient breast milk," 40-year-old Koh Chee Hui said of the strain on his wife and why they turned to donors’ milk. 🤱🏻https://tdy.sg/4lpldRS @todayonlinesg

Voices: When love becomes control – what the hottest K-drama today gets right about family and sacrifice "True family loyalty ... is not about maintaining appearances. It’s about creating a space where each member feels safe, valued and free to be themselves," Ms Nicole Chan said. 🍊🍊 https://tdy.sg/4cr4sBE @todayonlinesg

Ground Up: The daily pains and extra costs of living in an HDB block where lifts cannot be upgraded Madam Helen L, a 77-year-old resident living in one of 140 HDB blocks that do not have a lift serving all floors, recalled how paramedics could not find her flat and asked her to meet them on the ground floor instead. 🏘 https://tdy.sg/3YsGTT8 @todayonlinesg

Big Read: GE2025 – With a large number of multi-cornered fights on the cards, will this play into PAP's hands? Sources who have attended opposition "horse-trading" talks over the years told CNA TODAY that such meetings are no longer as productive as they used to be. 🗳 https://tdy.sg/4j5DFgI @todayonlinesg

Voices: Being the reliable one at work nearly burnt me out. Here’s what I learnt Being dependable at work shouldn’t mean drowning in extra tasks. Writer Kelvin Kao has been the overloaded employee and the manager unintentionally piling it on, but here’s how he says we can all do better. 💻😓😵‍💫 https://tdy.sg/3EhyyuG @todayonlinesg

Voices: I was insecure about my curly hair all my life. Now in my 30s, I'm finally embracing it "Over time, as I learnt to care for my textured hair, I started to reframe my perspective, seeing my curls not as a curse, but as a gift from my mother and my ancestors," CNA Lifestyle's senior journalist Melissa Stewart said. 👩‍🦱 https://tdy.sg/3G6ZZb9 @todayonlinesg

Up Close: Singapore sailor Cecilia Low trades medals for meetings, wins over corporate leaders with ‘can do’ attitude "I’m not from a well-to-do family, so (even then I knew) there is not much to fall back on. But my mum always said, if you do things half-heartedly, the chance of failing is higher,” national sailor Cecilia Low said. 💼⛵ https://tdy.sg/4l7saH4 @todayonlinesg

Adulting: Financial infidelity can erode trust as badly as emotional or physical betrayal, experts say "Think of it as a merger of two companies. Both of you need to know what the other is bringing in terms of assets and liabilities," one therapist said about the importance of financial transparency in a relationship. 🤥 https://tdy.sg/3YpUXge @todayonlinesg

Big Read: Jumping on the Studio Ghibli AI trend? It's costing the planet more than you think Studio Ghibli-style dreams, but at what cost? A viral AI image trend lit up the internet, but behind the charm is a growing environmental toll. 🌍😢🤖 https://tdy.sg/3FT9HxY @todayonlinesg