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They're creepy and they're kooky/ Mysterious and spooky/ They're all together ooky/The Addams family. If you sang along to that, Wednesday might be the show for you. Part-YA coming-of-age, part whodunit, part dark comedy, Wednesday explores what happens when Wednesday, this child of woe, goes away to a boarding school where mysterious events keep happening. It features Jenna Ortega in a pitch-perfect performance, Tim Burton being both executive producer and director, and of course... bonus Christina Ricci! We discuss the series, and whether it achieves the highs of Addams Family shows past.

Local Government Development Minister Nga Kor Ming said that restoring local council elections isn't his immediate priority. It prompts the question on the value of them, and whether it should be done at all.

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TIME Magazine has named our very own Michelle Yeoh as their Icon of The Year. She has earned Oscar buzz for her latest starring role in Everything Everywhere All At Once (which she quite literally is).

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Indonesia has passed a new criminal code, including sex outside of marriage, cohabitation, and criminalizing insults towards the President and state institutions. We talk about whether this is a political move, or a sign of growing conservatism.

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有别于一般人所了解的科技股、油气股等热门的板块，马股的教育股鲜少被人提起，但却拥有无限的发展潜能。随着新政府的成立，很多人都寄望教育能够成为被重点发展的领域之一，以提升我国未来在国际市场的竞争力。

马联保险（MAA）日前宣布以约1千万令吉收购一家意大利公司，以发展海外教育事业，期望能带来稳定的收入，这也让一些投资者突然注意到教育这一块，但这个领域未来能不能像其他领域一样受到投资者青睐？乐天交易零售主管刘松增将分析教育板块的前景。

Describing the work he does as “literally anything under the sun for sustainability," Abdul Razak Abdul Aziz, the founder of Social Eco Enterprise Development for Sustainability or SEEDS Malaysia, likes to get involved any way he can, working towards promoting a more ecologically-friendly lifestyle for us all. Together with his wife Intan and their family, they have been running a natural farming and sustainable living centre in Klang since 2017, and Razak believes that when it comes to farming, "it’s all about the soil - brown, living soil.” It was World Soil Day on the 5th of December, and we catch up with Razak about his work in permaculture, sustainable living and discuss ways we can all become “soil-mates” towards a greener future.

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For decades, Palestinians have suffered injustice and oppression at the hands of the violent Israel Zionist regime, backed by the United States government. There have been many attempts to resolve this conflict peacefully, but negotiations have always fallen through. 

Question is, can there be peace and justice in Palestine?

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安华指出前朝政府在未经竞标程序，直接颁发总值70亿令吉的防水灾计划，要求政府必须重新评估，确保遵循透明原则。根据当今大马的报导，公正党署理主席拉菲兹在大选期间指控，看守政府在国会解散后通过直接招标的方式，颁布数十亿令吉的项目给巫统朋党的公司。

Influencer marketing has been gaining more traction with major brands engaging influencers to create awareness on their products or services. But how effective is this form of marketing? We speak to Jan Wong, Co-founder & Online Strategist at OpenMinds Resources to get his take on influencer marketing and how it can be leveraged for today’s businesses.

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Elevandi is a non-profit organisation set up by the Monetary Authority of Singapore and Jael Tan, its Government and International Lead – shares how she built a fintech ecosystem in Singapore and why organisations should start monetising fintech to adapt to the global digital economy landscape.

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