The Health Ministry has redoubled efforts to combat dengue this year, having launched a two-month enforcement programme that ends this June. This is not the first attempt at promoting an anti-dengue campaign, but it is the largest and the most comprehensive seen so far.

Today we look at the progress that’s been made in combating this health scourge as well as the challenges faced in carrying out this campaign.

This is a report by Keith Kam and Lyn Mak.

The release of Q1 GDP figures indicates a cautiously optimistic outlook for the Malaysian economy. Listen to Jameel Ahmad, Chief Market Analyst at FXTM explain the key areas to look out for.

Despite that strong 1.7% GDP growth Japan achieved in the first quarter, investment in the private sector was weak.

Further stimulus is needed otherwise a slowdown will ensue.

A US-Japan political standoff is also developing because of the yen's strength.

Investments are now risk-off.

Around eight million tonnes of plastic bottles, bags, toys and other plastic rubbish end up in the world’s oceans each year. Australian natives Pete Ceglinski and Andrew Turton founded the Seabin Project, an innovation that could potentially be a simple, game changing solution to this global problem. We catch up with Pete to learn more about what's essentially the world's first automated trash bin for the sea. 

We get you out of bed, to your first cup of coffee or to your first destination of your day with thought-provoking discussions on ideas, people and events shaping all our lives.

Why do we do what we do, and how can we get better at it? In a groundbreaking exploration of the science of productivity, Pulitzer prize winning journalist Charles Duhigg draws on the latest in neuroscience and the experiences of CEOs, educational reformers, airplane pilots and Broadway songwriters, to present us with a more human way of thinking about how productivity works. 

The volatile business environment has not only affected corporate Malaysia and large conglomerates. Smaller businesses are also feeling the pinch. These include coffee-shops and mamak stalls - a staple and big part of Malaysian food culture. Post-GST, operators are also having to cope with increased costs from foreign worker levies, reduced subsidies and weak consumer sentiment.

We discuss how these operators are managing cost inflationary pressures and if that glass of teh tarik costs way more than it should.

 Beyoncé may have launched her last two albums in rather unorthodox ways but the proof is in the pudding with approximately USD3 million in sales per day of her latest - Lemonade. Maya Tan and Angeline Teh discuss the lessons to be learnt from the unlikely but undisputed Queen of Marketing - Beyoncé.

Over the last few weeks we’ve had annoying tech companies, crazy and inspired inventions and now we’re debunking tech myths. It’s almost as if Kulturpop’s Matt Armitage gone all BuzzFeed on us.

Is Virtual Reality really the next big thing or will it make us look like fools in the future? The Geeks talk about Google's Daydream and Google's latest patent on sticking people in front of their autonomous vehicles.