Last year, Malaysia joined the Madrid Protocol becoming the 106th member of the Madrid System. The Madrid System enables brand owners or entrepreneurs to protect their brands in 122 countries, including the United States, Australia, the United Kingdom and Brazil. However many are still in dark about this. We speak to Ramakrishna Damodharan, Managing Director of Adipven about why this is important for your business and to provide a better understanding of the new protocol.

In honour of World Environment Day today, the co-founder of Tanamera, Mohamed Faisal bin Ahmad Fadzil, discusses how Tanamera has stuck to their core principles of using raw materials for their home spa & beauty products over the past two decades, as well as the environmental impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and how businesses can capitalise on the growing trend towards sustainable consumerism.

Kontakte is a talent sourcing platform. They developed a platform that is the first of its kind where they connect readily available professionals with companies looking for immediate hires. Traditional recruitment platforms take companies anywhere from 1 week to 2 months to source their talent. On the Kontakte platform, talent sourcing times are under 1 day.

Why should you care about #CreditScores?

Roshan speaks to Hann about the importance of credit scores as well as the dos & don'ts, how Credit Scores work and tips to maintain (or improve) your score.

While equity markets have rallied in the last few days, the Malaysian Ringgit has also appreciated against the US dollar. We ask Han Tan an analyst from FXTM why and is it the case of US dollar weakness or the Ringgit strengthening. We also ask about safe haven currencies and should it be considered when the mode is risk on.

Should Grab and GoJek be worried about Lalamove’s growing presence in the region?

Hong Kong Unicorn Lalamove has been described as the Uber for logistics. While primarily a B2B service, the platform’s awareness in Malaysia has grown as merchants & customers used Lalamove as an alternative to GrabFood during the Movement Control Order. Roshan gets into their potential IPO, expansion into India and Indonesia, profitability and Malaysian operations.

Health Director-General Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah revealed this week, that one Covid-19 case has been detected within the Sungai Buloh prison population. While the Health Ministry has now commenced screenings of the more than 800 inmates and 700 employees, the case has raised important questions over whether our prison system could potentially withstand a Covid-19 outbreak. For more insight, we speak to Dr. Tharani Loganathan, of the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, at Universiti Malaya.

The International Civil Aviation Organisation has published a series of health recommendations for airlines, including obligatory donning of face masks, but stopping short of leaving every other seat open on planes. To get a sense of whether these recommendations will be enough to restore confidence in the aviation industry amid global pandemic fears, we speak to aviation expert Ron Bishop.

With Covid-19, are capital markets quiet? Are there any deals in the pipeline? We speak to Alessandro Cannarsi, Partner in the Private Equity Practice at Bain & Company on what to look out for. He also chimes in on why its important for companies to have a long term growth plan before coming to public markets or run the risk of share price under performance.

On the back of an emerging bull run in Asia and the US, we reach out to Tony Nash, CEO of Complete Intelligence, for his thoughts on whether or not this momentum can be maintained, oil prices, as well as the ECB's bond purchase programme.