Current Affairs

Tan Sri Yusof Basiron, the CEO of the Malaysian Palm Oil Council, and Faizal Parish, the director of Global Environment Centre battles it out on the development of land for oil palm cultivation.

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Bhavna Khandar, Senior Associate of Perenia Carbon, explains what companies are claiming carbon credits in Southeast Asia, the challenges, and what assurances we have that this market is not another subprime crisis in the making.

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Maryam AlKhawaja, Head of Foreign Relations at the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights, gives an account on the protest situation in Bahrain, what political reforms people want, and whether the protests could gather momentum.

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Lim Chong Hoe, Managing director of Kone Elevator (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd, talks about the importance of going green in the context of regenerative lifts, since they comprise some 5% to 15% of an entire building’s energy consumption.
He discusses demand outlook, popularity, durability, capital costs, potential savings, maintenance and management.

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Ahmad Hadri Haris, National Project Leader of Malaysia Building Integrated Photovoltaic, tells how we can benefit from the feed-in-tariff programme when we install solar panels in our homes, and how to tell if a solar panel company is greenwashing. He also briefly compares nuclear and solar energy.

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Dr Nahrul Khair Alang Md Rashid - President, Malaysia Nuclear Society (MNS) and Gurmit Singh, Chairman at the Centre for Environment, Technology and Development Malaysia, discuss the government's plans to build and operate a 20-billion ringgit plant by 2021 to address Malaysia's burgeoning energy needs, in the context of alternative sources, environmental concerns, qualified personnel, capital cost and energy production.

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Tan Sri Sulaiman Mahbob, Chairman of MIDA and former Director-General of the EPU, discusses Malaysia's human capital predicament in the context of Brain Drain and flaws in the Education system.

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Sonia Randhawa, Director, Centre for Independent Journalism and Jac SM Kee, an Internet Rights activist, talk about the need to protect Malaysian press and Internet freedom, given recent government statements that it might seek to control the Internet by putting it under the purview of the Printing and Publications Act.

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Wan Saiful Wan Jan, Chief Executive of the Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs (IDEAS), talks about the ideals Tunku Abdul Rahman stood for in particular the government should not be involved in business. The interview is in conjunction with his birthday and IDEAS' first anniversary.

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Mohd Nizam Basiron, the Head of the Centre for Straits of Malacca at the Maritime Institute of Malaysia explains the piracy situation particularly in Gulf of Aden where Malaysian tankers have been attacked by Somali pirates, and how the Malaysian-Thai-Indonesian government had reduced attacks in Straits of Malacca and South China Sea.

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