Evening Edition

Where is Industry4WRD heading after it was tabled by the government two Budgets ago?

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Over the weekend, residents in Singapore rushed into supermarkets to clear out shelves of goods, after the country raised its pandemic preparedness alert level for the coronavirus outbreak from yellow to orange. We look the effects of panic buying and how governments manage it.

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Nike has unveiled its official 2020 Olympics uniforms and footwear for US, France and Brazil athletes, and they're partly made out of recycled shoe parts.

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An agency under the ministry of communications and multimedia has launched a programme to accelerate digital adoption among people with disabilities. We speak to the person who championed the initiative about what's needed to increase the participation of the disabled community in the digital economy.

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Poverty in the UK has risen, although unemployment rates have dropped. We look at how employment rate and standard of living relate to one another.

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Tun Mahathir has announced that only poor students are eligible for the free breakfast programme, however a report on Khazanah Research Institute argues that while breakfast for all students is costly, it can be provide great social benefits.

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Bong Joon Ho, director of the award winning Korean film Parasite, recently credited its international acclaim to the film's nuanced and elegant subtitles. We speak to Kam Raslan about what makes good subtitles and what often gets lost in translation.

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Some parents are giving allowances to their children on e-wallets to monitor their spending. We discuss how parents can cultivate healthy financial habits in their children.

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Transport restrictions due to the city lockdowns in China are preventing animal feed from getting delivered to poultry farms.

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We look at the political and economic implications that Brexit will have on the United Kingdom, and what to expect as it begins working out the terms of its divorce from the European Union.

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