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

- Top Glove now covering the SGX

- Retail sales sink 4.4%

- IKEA races towards sales goal

- Maybank slowly scaling the Forbes list

If you were to Google time management tips online, you'll find a barrage of different types of techniques and advice. We cover a few with Amarjeet Singh, a motivational speaker. He talks to us about the most common challenges in time management, and what we can do to overcome it.

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

- Bad weather drives decelerating consumer inflation

- Tencent gaming on Clash of Clans

- Dong Grows in Size

George Soros translated his worry of the world by selling stocks and buying gold. Mario Draghi's appeal to the Eurozone to spend more as well as sliding German bond yields may support Soros's crisis theory. The only place left to hide may be gold according to Tim Mulholland.

We all dream of leading a jetsetter's life. As the person who dared to dream, Thomas Flohr, founded the fastest growing private jet company in the world, known as VistaJet. During the financial crisis, when rivals were cutting down on spending, he forged ahead, spending more money and received even more orders from clients. We invite Thomas to talk about his flight plan to success. 

The National Security Council Act 2016 passed into law on Tuesday, without receiving royal assent. For the first time, an Act was gazetted without royal assent using Article 66(4A) of the Federal Constitution. This provision in the law allows a Bill that does not receive the King’s express formal endorsement, to automatically become law after 30 days. Today we look at the concerns regarding the National Security Council, returning to the 80s Constitutional crisis and the post-May 13th National Operations Council as reference points. We also ask if it is true that what the then Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohammad tried and failed to do decades ago, the current PM has achieved. And following these concerns can the Act be challenged in court as unconstitutional.

“In Fraudem Legis” is a latin expression meaning “in circumvention of the Rule of Law”.

This report is by Sharaad Kuttan.

The PAP left-wing and its mass base were furious with Lee Kuan Yew’s right-wing adventurism and selfishness. A confrontation with the Lee Kuan Yew faction over the heart and soul of the PAP became inevitable. But with the PAP in pole position to win the next election, this confrontation would have far-reaching consequences: the winner would get the opportunity to define the next government of Singapore. In this episode, PJ Thum describes how the left and right of the PAP manoeuvred to gain the upper hand in the PAP, and the impact of the outcome on Singapore’s future. 

Please send questions, comments, and feedback to [email protected] or visit thehistoryofsingapore.com. Support the show at patreon.com/pjthum.

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The proverbial complaint from the public often is that ticket prices to concerts are expensive, what more when the performers are unknown quantities (or of uncertain quality). The musicians justify and explain why tickets to a classical music festival is high and at the same time share the program that they will be performing in the Johor Bahru Classical  Music Festival 2016

Data plans for our smartphones have become a fixed and unavoidable spend. We look into some ways on how to have more bang for your data buck.

The Soorya India Festival will be held in Kuala Lumpur with Odissi exponent Uthara Mano; Bharatanatyam dancer and choreographer, Meenakshi Srinivasan, both from India; and local artists from Temple of Fine Arts Malaysia. Our guests give pointers to explain the differences among these dances, which include a Katha performance.