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According to the Malaysia National ICT Association or better known as PIKOM, the number of IT graduates produced each year, which numbers about 30,000 is not enough to cater to the growth of the industry. Scary isn’t it? To help overcome this, Cloudera, a provider of data management and analytics platform built on Apache Hadoop, recently launched BASE, Big Analytics Skills Enablement, initiative in Malaysia. Doug Cutting, the Chief Architect for Cloudera explains.

Datuk Paul Low, Minister in the Prime Minister's Department, responsible for promoting Governance, Integrity and Human Rights, has pledged that a Political Donations Act will be tabled to the Cabinet by next month. The Act will include laws to bar foreign influence on the domestic political system, and create transparency and accountability. We explore the Act's policy proposals, and their implications on Malaysian politics.

This is a report by Wang Junmey.

Homegrown digital payments firm Soft Space has developed a device that works with smartphones to accept credit card payments. CEO Chang Chew Soon shares why Soft Space had to go overseas to get their start, and his dreams of Malaysia becoming a "cashless society".

Softbank is going splurge $32b to buy over ARM Holdings whose microprocessors power most of the world's handphones. ARM is also British which gives a kind of silver lining for UK firms in the aftermath of Brexit. On the other hand, Abenomics and the performance of the yen will no doubt have some bearing on Japanese M&A activity.

She has been breaking tensions in the room with her jokes since she was a youngster, Atsuko decided to dedicate her life to making people laugh and entertaining everybody as much as she can. Now, Atsuko's making the masses laugh harder than they have ever been, she's also in Malaysia to record for Comedy Central's Stand Up, Asia! Comedy Central will be on HyppTV CH609. Find out more about Atsuko from our podcast!

Also, don't forget to check out her website here and here!

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The world has seen great gains in terms of female empowerment but what does that mean? On today's show, we zoom in on womenomics in the Muslim world, the progress that has been made thus far, and if the Fourth Industrial Revolution, when AI and robots take over the world, is a boon or a bane. Saadia Zahidi is a co-author of two WEF reports: The Global Gender Gap Report and The Future of Jobs.

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 - Soul Jazz Unit - Pentatonic

5:55 - Dandy & Melania - Yesterday

10:17 - BADBADNOTGOOD - Cashmere

15:39 - SK Radicals - Troubled Times

21:49 - Bossa Nostra & Vicki Anderson - Solaria

25:35 - Theo Crocker - Meditations

31:15 - Ithamara Koorax - I Get A Kick Out Of You

35:11 - Takuya Kuroda - Piri Piri

42:48 - Banda Brasileira - Cosmic Girl

48:06 - Roy Hargrove - The Stinger

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The image of teenagers has become synonymous with social media use - some would even say overuse. Dr Chua Sook Ning, Clinical Psychologist discusses  how the number of “likes” can affect the reward circuitry and cognitive control in teenage brains.

2016 is the 400th death anniversary of William Shakespeare. Activities and performances commemorating the works of the Bard by universities, festivals and performance troupes have been going all year, including here in Malaysia. We speak to two Shakespeare scholars from Universiti Malaya’s English Department, who are themselves organizing a Shakespeare festival at the end of July, about why they think the works of Shakespeare endure.