Evening Edition

The government is proposing for 2 government-linked cooperatives to get into poultry farming to bolster Malaysia's food security. We get into what this means for the industry, as well as our food security.

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A cinema branch was fined RM 45,000 by the Ayer Keroh sessions court for profiteering, after being found to have overcharged customers for F&B sold at their concession stand. We speak to senior lecturer of law, Dr. Ong Tze Chin to understand how profit crosses the line into profiteering.

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SPM results are out, and Congratulations Ain is trending! This is after Ain Husniza shared the top marks she got despite the hate messages she received for purportedly prioritizing activism over her studies.

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Have you tried booking a Grab during peak hours recently? Earlier this month, it was reported that some drivers have been turning off their apps during peak hours, thanks to the crazy traffic lately. We got an anonymous Grab driver to break this down for us from their perspective.

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Google suspended one of it's engineers after he argued that their AI system LaMDA was showing signs of conciousness. Google has since denied LaMDA's sentience, a response which has raised suspicions over how far they have actually come in their AI development. We dive into this story, and what it would mean for an Artificial Intelligence system to gain sentience.

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A conversation on the act of paying for public toilets is trending on Twitter, following a tweet from Marina Ibrahim of DAP on complaints that public toilets at the Taman Ungku Tun Aminah bus terminal were too expensive. She explained that the public's usage of these restrooms have been less than ideal, and that these charges are used to accomodate price of goods and the salaries of workers. We join the discussion.

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According to economist Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Malaysian data on labour and foreign workers are inaccurate. Based on telco estimates, there are about 6.7 million foreign workers but based on labour data, there are about 15 million people in Malaysia's labour force, of which only 2.2 million are foreign workers. We speak to Dr Niaz Asadullah about this disparity in numbers and discuss the importance of getting it right.

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The pandemic has been tough on many people, and animal welfare groups have been no exception to this, as they struggle to stay afloat during these difficult times. We talk about how the situation has been, and the efforts that have been made to get more consistent funding.

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200 smart lamp posts are going to be installed around the Klang Valley, to help with 5G networking - they also come equipped with safety features and the latest technology... and they cost approximately RM154,000 each. Which has of course prompted questions about how this price is justified, and how this contract was awarded in the first place. We dive into these tricky issues of procurement and transparency with Sri Murniati Yusuf from IDEAS.

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A tweet talking about the lack of maintenance of Stadium Shah Alam is making its rounds on twitter, as people go back and forth between sharing their memories with our various cultural landmarks, and pointing out our country's issue with maintaining our iconic buildings. We get into it.

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