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Founded in 2013 at a meeting between leaders of Parent-Teacher Associations (PTAs), Yayasan Sarana Pendidikan Malaysia is tasked with complementing the government's role in lifting our education standard. Joining us to explain how they go about their work was YSPM's commercial relations officer, Wafri Zaeem.

In the next part of the show, we talked about Dapur J'07, an initiative to feed the homeless community in KL. Check out the podcast Feeding the Urban Poor.

They are back by demand in a concert together singing. We’ll find out what makes sparks fly between the two that not only the voices meld together but clever repartee and banter. Hear also samples of what the concert might sound like when we get them to sing in the studio.

Our guests--merely teenagers--have performed not just in this country but overseas--nothing short of Carnegie Hall, New York. Jeremy Yeo, Joshua Ng and Debra Grace Lim have competed in prestigious piano playing competitions and have scored prizes. We will find out from them where the drive comes from and what it means to play music and to be inside it.

We get you out of bed, to your first cup of coffee or to your first destination of your day with thought-provoking discussions on ideas, people and events shaping all our lives.

The Ring of Gyges is a myth that makes a curious appearance in Plato's Republic. In this episode, we examine its significance as a way to understand the dialogue and Plato's philosophy writ large.

WVC Malaysian Jazz Ensemble will be presenting Shakespeare in music as part of the klpac celebrations, ringing in the 400th anniversary of the Bard’s death. The musicians will share the challenges and the joys of putting Shakespeare’s sonnets into contemporary jazz and singing them, including composing music based on plays like ‘Titus Andronicus’, ‘Hamlet’, ‘Romeo & Juliet’ and ‘Macbeth’.

Being the World’s first licensed Shariah-based Online Equity Crowdfunding platform, ATA Plus is a proponent for democratisation of wealth and financial inclusion in the ‘new economy’. They believe that matching capital with businesses has a far reaching productive social and economical outcomes. The ecosystem is designed to help partnership between investors and entrepreneurs in lowering the barriers for both to move forward. Investors can leverage on this ecosystem to manage risk in supporting sustainable business.

Amazon Web Services or better known as AWS celebrates its 10th year anniversary this year. AWS has grown rapidly as the fastest enterprise IT vendor to reach US10billion run-rate. But its success story goes beyond pure financials, AWS has worked with organizations like General Electric to startups like Netflix and even local startups like KFit Malaysia. Shane Owenby, Managing Director APAC for Amazon Web Services talks about how any type of organization can benefit from cloud, why, how and everything else.

We get you out of bed, to your first cup of coffee or to your first destination of your day with thought-provoking discussions on ideas, people and events shaping all our lives.

Despite getting all the airtime, the USD ranks pretty lowly in the list of what affects the ringgit.