8world | Frontline
Three episodes from 8world's Frontline current-affairs programme examine different pressures in Singapore. One brings together people with contrasting experiences of parenthood, childlessness, and fertility treatment. Another follows men caring for parents and children while balancing work and exhaustion. The third investigates how borrowed licences and concealed operators enable illicit massage businesses, with perspectives from the massage industry, traditional Chinese medicine, and a former secret-society figure.
- Role
- Field Producer
- Location
- 📍 Singapore
Frontline | Fertility rate falls to 0.87 Are Singaporeans going extinct?!
A reported look at why Singaporeans hesitate to start families, following the financial, emotional, and social pressures behind the country's record-low fertility rate.
Frontline | Who Says Caring for Parents Is Only for Women?
This companion story follows male caregivers balancing work, fatigue, and filial duty as they care for ageing parents and sick relatives.
It broadens the series from fertility decisions to the unequal care burdens shaping family life in Singapore.
前线追踪 | 假按摩，真色情？ 前私会党候选帮主揭乱象内幕
An investigative 前线追踪 report on how nominee licence holders, borrowed TCM credentials, and 'front-shop, back-room' setups let some massage parlours mask an illegal vice trade in Singapore.
Massage-chain owner Dickson Mah, TCM practitioner Heng Buck Teck, and former secret-society figure Wong Kee Soon expose the profit-driven ecosystem behind the racket as Singapore tightens its rules.