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This is an edited recording of the panel discussion that was held at the BFM Health & Living Live 2016 on April 2nd. In Part 1 of 6, presenter/producer Meera Sivasothy spoke to Datuk Seri Dr S Subramaniam, Minister of Health, for an overview of the health ecosystem. Find out how decisions made on a policy level affect you. BFM Health & Living Live 2016 is presented by AIA, The Real Life Company.

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 - The Bad Plus - Seven Minute Mind

6:42 - Robert Glasper ft Bilal - Ghetto Walkin'

9:52 - Allison Miller - Slow Jam

15:28 - Mark Guiliana Quartet - One Month

23:04 - Gregory Porter - Fan The Flames

27:09 - Jose James - God Bless The Child

33:40 - Omer Avital - Three Four

42:40 - Robert Glasper ft Erykah Badu - Maiysha (So Long)

50:02 - Miles Davis - So Near, So Far

Jose Mourinho’s appointment as Manchester United’s manager last week was reportedly held up by negotiations over his image rights, which belongs to Chelsea Football Club since 2005. What are image rights and how does it affect an athlete or sports professional like Mourinho? Helping us to understand how income is made beyond the sports arena are lawyers Richard Wee and Lesley Lim.

The writing and publishing of children’s books in Malaysia is very much a burgeoning market. There is a growing audience of Malaysian parents that demanding for content that is both local and relatable for their children. But what does the landscape look like? What are parents looking for? And how good are our local writers and illustrators?

This week, on Afterwords, Uma speaks to Raman Krishnan from Silverfish Books and Peter Duke from Oyez!Books about the writing and publishing of children's books in Malaysia.

Malaysia's banking sector remains tepid, with loans growths in April declining 6.3% y-o-y. The landscape remains competitive as banks compete for deposits. Impairments in the industry are still a concern, thus, pressuring Net interest margins (NIMs). Wong Li Hsia, Analyst at TA Securities projects loan growths to be stable at 5.8% supported by a stable interest environment and job market.

The saga of the unfavourable viral post is a reflection of greater competitive pressures within the telco sector. The 2 new players added to the 3 incumbents will benefit consumers while at the same time challenge the industry.

The other challenge is the online revolution and how a leader like Maxis will respond to it.

Running a business may not be as difficult as it seems. Raymond Gabriel runs a Sustainable Entrepreneurial Development programme which tracks high-need communities with micro businesses and the goal is to increase their income. This programme has trained 12,000 entrepreneurs from marginalised communities, which saw incomes raised by 400%. With the success of the program, Raymond shares some of these self-sustainable business models. 

Businesses today conduct a large portion of their business online, to modernize their business processes and meet the needs of the digital customer. Yet, a fast growing threat looms for these businesses as they took to the digital world as a source of growth – fraud. The threat of fraudsters is real and is expected to hit the highest among enterprises in Asia Pacific. Jeff Price, Managing Director for South East Asia for Experian dives deeper in their recently released Asia Pacific fraud report.

The goal of education is to engage students with appropriately challenging materials, but what is the role of schools when students have different levels of academic aptitude? The dilemma is especially pronounced when there is limited resources to allocate between setting up a gifted curriculum or investing in a special needs programme. Explaining the role schools can play in nurturing gifted and talented students is Dr. Philip Whitehead, an assistant professor of educational leadership and management.

This is the second episode in our series on gifted children, listen to Episode 1 - A Blessing or Challenge? where we spoke to Dr. Inderbir Sandhu, who is the former vice president of the National Association of Gifted Children Malaysia (NAGCM).

Mark Stevenson is an entrepreneur, author, broadcaster, occasional comedian and expert on global trends and innovation. He’s the founder of The League of Pragmatic Optimists, an organisation that creates meeting places in cities and towns across the globe “where people who want to make the world better can meet, generate ideas and projects, and find collaborators and have their neurons tickled in the cause of improving the story of humanity.” We catch up with Mark to find out about the 8 principles of pragmatic optimism that the league lives by.