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Professor James Chin, the Director of the Asia Institute at the University of Tasmania in Australia, is in Sarawak as an independent observer in the elections. He tells Melisa Idris what he's seeing during the campaign rounds.

There are a lot of assumptions regarding the property space that might not be true. Especially the information provided on the Internet are often layered with wrong details and the younger generation is finding it hard to understand the market. Property PriceTag is a new startup in town that’s set to increase transparency in the property world and reach out to the millennials with comprehensible bitesize information. 

Outsourcing investments to external fund managers (EFM) has been a longstanding practice in EPF. According to the annual report, about a quarter of 2015's investment income was attributed to EFMs. We ask the question of whether this is worth it.

Also EPF will be making a radical change to another kind of investment outsourcing. Members' optional unit trust investments will be put online to reduce/eliminated sales-related fees that can come up to 5%. We also question the principles behind doing this.

Zack Yusof gives you an interesting selection of music and his insights on the style, the singers and the stories behind the songs.

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0:08 - Pavement - Rattled By The Rush

5:38 - Gruff Rhys - I Love EU

10:24 - Cate Le Bon - Wonderful

13:30 - Escondido - Black Roses

17:43 - Greys - No Star

20:40 - Little Scream - Love As A Weapon

26:03 - Bjork - Venus As A Boy

31:11 - Guided By Voices - Please Be Honest

33:13 - The Kills - Heart Of A Dog

38:00 - Wire - Internal Exile

41:28 - The Shop Assistants - Safety Net

44:53 - Arbour Labour Union - Mr Birdsong

We don’t need many words for this 5 time beatbox champion and a regular Tedx speaker. Cody Foo or commonly known as Coex, is by far one of the friendliest and most down to Earth people we’ve ever met. He started BeatNation in the hopes of making sure that beatboxers around the world will get to pursue their dreams without having to worry about earning a living - they now have around 2,000 members nationwide. Cody loves Defence of The Ancients very much and he managed to secure funding to organize a regional e-sports competition somewhere at the end of this year. DoTA fans, be on the lookout for that!

If you like what you heard, head over to the website! That Time Of Night.

Brainstorming is often the go-to method when we're faced with challenges and stumped for solutions.  But it can be a highly flawed experience - there is a lack of direction and focus that rarely results in true innovation. And the term "think outside the box", can have the opposite effect of inspiring creativity. Alan Iny, the Senior Specialist for Creativity and Scenarios at the Boston Consulting Group and co-author of Thinking in New Boxes, joins us to explore exactly why "out of the box" is not sufficient, and how to find useful and practical new boxes, for sustainable creativity. 

Masquerading as the biography of a fictional comic book artist, “The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye” is, in fact, an incredibly meta meditation on the meaning of history, the role of biography, and the way our stories - our own personal narratives - shape the world around us. This week, on Invisible Cities, Uma speaks to author and artist Sonny Liew about Charlie Chan's subjunctive Singapore.

Show Notes:

i. You can find yourself a copy of "The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye" here.

ii. For more of Sonny's work, check out the Secreter Robot Spy Factory. 

iii. "The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye" launched in 2015 to some controversy resulting in Singapore's National Arts Council taking back the grant they had awarded towards the publishing of the book. You can read more about why here.

Join us as we spin you our weekly collection of jazz music, sweeping across multiple sub-genres, comprising of both contemporary & classic compositions.

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0:00 - Nina Simone - Love Me or Leave Me

4:27 - Bossa Nostra & Silvia Donati - Roxanne Nao Ligar

7:15 - Snarky Puppy - Tarova

11:38 - Charlie Hunter - Enter The Dragon

18:40 - Julian Lage - Nocturne

21:51 - Bonobo - Animals

29:36 - Caravan Palace - Aftermath

32:33 - James Taylor Quartet - Elle

39:12 - Nomade Orquestra - Samurai

45:06 - Kenneth Whallum - Ghost Town

50:11 - Jose James - It's All Over Your Body

Following the first trading session of May, Joe Quinlan, Chief Market Strategist, US Trust-BoA Private Wealth Management shares why he's not holding to the old adage “sell in May and go away”.

However, with several risk events to watch out for in the coming months, should investors be looking to avoid summer volatility? Listen to the podcast to find out more.

Forward-thinking new music from everywhere. Saturdays and Wednesdays (repeat) 9pm with Tim Sharp.

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0:00 - Anomy - Split

5:35 - Dellux - Missing U VIP

10:46 - Iglooghost - Ell (ft. Rocks FOE)

13:37 - GL - Grip

17:39 - Client Liaison - World Of Our Love

22:54 - Braille Face - Glow

26:54 - VIKTORIA - Nothing More

29:43 - Robot Roch - Eclipse (Dnte Remix)

36:20 - Nikita Quasim - Simple Things

40:30 - Noer The Boy - Simple Things

43:55 - Nunca Duerma - Acid Jazz

47:06 - Guest Mix - Edd Fisher

98:37 - Rainbow Chan - Nest

102:34 - OCDANTAR - Sad Child

107:30 - Dave Harrington Group - All I Can Do