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In the week leading up to GE15, we unpack the political news and speculation of the day with a panel of guests, looking at it all with (hopefully!) some warmth and humour. Today, we talk about how getting to know your MP online is akin to long-distance dating.

We catch up with representatives from the Pakatan Harapan and Barisan Nasional coalitions about the campaign they’ve been running, what the mood is like, and the criticisms that have been leveled their way.

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Pakatan Harapan's candidate for Padang Serai, M. Karupaiya passed away this afternoon, just two days before polling day. We speak to a PKR representative about the late incumbent MP, and what his passing means for the Padang Serai seat.

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美国政府公布了最新的数据显示，当地的通膨是达到了7.7%，单单是以科技股为主的纳斯达克指数，上周便大涨了8.84%这样的涨幅。但不少市场人士还是保持疑惑的态度，尤其当前通膨距离美联储2%的目标，依然还是有一段距离，更何况全球也有可能在明年面临经济衰退的问题，因此这波的涨幅是另一个牛市的开始，还是昙花一现的反弹。域锋环球董事林卓锋将在节目中，深入地分析通膨拐点是否已经出现，以及后市的展望。

With voting day around the corner, Malaysia Information Literacy Education (MILE) have come up with "Are you Yang Bijak?", a browser game to help young first-time voters recognize misleading information, extensive politicking and propaganda. We speak to MILE about the game and how it aims to tackle political misinformation.

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 In our increasingly ageing population, more of us will live longer, and are more likely to require some form of surgical procedure, whether minor or major. While surgical techniques and medical care have advanced tremendously to ensure that surgery is safer for older patients, it doesn’t mean that these procedures are without risk. On this episode of Healthy Ageing, we speak to Dr Dhanupriya Sivapathasuntharam, Consultant Geriatrician from Royal London Hospital, about her area of specialty: the perioperative management of older adults.

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Research shows that the environment and climate change is a top issue for young people around the world, as youths will be the most affected by climate change and biodiversity loss. With many young, first time voters heading to the polls this GE15, how can youths concerned about climate change drive both their activism and their participation at the ballot box? We discuss this and more with Natasha Zulaikha, a Conservation Scientist and the Co-founder of Coralku.

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Greenpeace Malaysia recently conducted a study ahead of GE15, scraping Malaysia's Parliamentary Hansard from 2018-2022, and using more than 100 environmental keywords.  The results showed that questions with environmental keywords only surfaced about 8.4% of times over the last four years - clearly showing our leaders are not prioritising a holistic and meaningful approach to dealing with environmental crises. We speak to Thing Siew Shuen (Senior Program Manager, Greenpeace Southeast Asia) and Margo Prebenda (Regional Research and Investigation Coordinator , Greenpeace Southeast Asia) about the findings of this study, and how Malaysians can use this information to vote for the environment in GE15.

When it comes to elections, people often think about big coalitions. Take GE15, for example, in which all the attention has been on juggernauts such as PN, BN, PH, GPS and the likes. But these are not the only parties running for elections. Apart from smaller parties, there are also individuals who run in elections not representing any party or coalition. I’m talking about independent candidates. 

So, what goes through the mind of an independent candidate? Why do they run in elections? What do they hope to achieve? 

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