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Most of sensible people are enjoying an extra day’s holiday today. Helping you to make the most of that time, Kulturpop’s Matt Armitage is doing a round up of some of the best podcasts for you to enjoy. 

With loan approvals at an all time low and the DIBS scheme put on hold, many would be purchasers are put off from purchasing due to lack of financing. Sheldon Fernandez of PropertyGuru.com.my shares methods and schemes now available to help finance the buying of real estate.

 Hanging on to the past can sometimes be the best way to build a successful future. It certainly worked for GZ Media. Today, they are the world’s largest producer of vinyl records — all thanks to a decision made by the company’s CEO, Zdeněk Pelc. He's here on the show to speak about his journey and challenges faced moving forward.

Andrew Matthews is one of the world’s most widely read self-help authors. His books are best-sellers in the USA, UK, China, Hong Kong, Brazil, Mexico, Russia, Germany, Hungary, Croatia, India, Vietnam, South Korea, and Malaysia – and Iran! We first heard about him through his book "Be Happy" and got to interview him when he released the book "How Life Works."

PDRM has plans to revamp the Kejara and Demerit system. This is to ensure better compliance with traffic laws, as a means to reduce the number of accidents and the resulting fatalities. Today on Current Affairs, we discuss what this means for road users.

This is a report by Nadiah Abdul Aziz.

There's only a 24% chance of an interest rate rise and that's only coming September next year according to bets on interest rate futures. There's also the prospect of currency war which may make gold increasingly more attractive and the Chinese yuan not so.

Putra Business School, formerly the Graduate School Management at Universiti Putra Malaysia, sees the need for the principles of human governance to be taught in B-school programmes. Professor Arfah Salleh, Founding President and CEO  of Putra Business School explains why.

The PAP won the 1959 general election, but then their leaders had to govern Singapore, and they would find this to be much harder than anticipated. They churned out legislation with the twin goals of creating an ideal socialist state in Singapore, and consolidating control. In this episode, PJ Thum describes how they went about achieving these two aims (starting even before they entered government), the mistakes they made, and how their decisions continue to impact Singapore today. 

Please send questions, comments, and feedback to [email protected] or visit thehistoryofsingapore.com. Support the show at patreon.com/pjthum. For all the previous episodes in this series, search for "History of Singapore" on bfm.my.

Last year, as part of the celebrations to commemorate Laura Fygi’s solo career as a jazz singer, Universal Music,  launched a double album with the the singer’s most popular fan-chosen tracks on one CD; and on the second CD, 12 others, described as ‘bonus tracks’. The singer is on her Asian tour and dropped by the studio for us to get acquainted with the person with the voice that sings in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Chinese.

The Morning Run crew gives you their take on today's business headlines:

- Mah Sing doubles down projects amidst weak property sentiment

- ILO predicts 137m jobs lost to automation in Asean

- China's NPLs rise to 2.2% in May

- Brexit causes 'run' on property funds