From Deadpool to Aviation Gin and now Mint Mobile, Ryan Reynolds has proven to be a marketing genius… or at least the team behind the icon is. As brands flood to the Superbowl to get their 30 seconds of fame for a whopping $5Mil, Reynolds opted to do the opposite and advertise in print media instead. The results are hilarious and wildly effective.

Seven years ago, MIT debuted a landmark project, which allowed everyday people to photograph and rate their streets like a Hot or Not for cities. It was a powerful showcase of how crowdsourcing opinions from citizens could help quantify a city’s appeal and, in theory, help urban designers plan better cities. Less than a decade later, artificial intelligence is taking this idea so much further. FaceLift is a new AI system developed by Nokia Bell Labs Cambridge that allows scientists and urban planners to use a crowd’s aggregated sensibility to actually redesign the look of city streets. 

As icons like James Dean and Carrie Fisher are recreated in the afterlife and summoned by CGI to star in new pictures, are we facing a zombie horde of never dead CGI film stars?

In this episode, we chat with Jonathan Seevaratnam The founder of KL Based Event Entertainment company Jiggee. Jon might have gotten his start as a clown, but he quickly turned that experience into an entertainment empire. Find out how in this episode of beyond performance on BFM.

On this month's edition of the Monthly Property Legal Clinic, we ask Chris Tan of Chur Associates about being a landlord and tenant as well as the issue of fake real estate agents.

Bike-hailing has been in the news lately, with the government allowing them to operate for 6 months during a proof of concept period. Dego Ride started bike hailing back in late 2016 but was then banned shortly after.

Now with the POC the firm is back in business and has the chance to show the potential of bike-hailing, but with with huge players like Grab and potentially GoJek in the mix, can Dego really take off here?

In light of Federal Territories Day tomorrow, we take a look at some of the issues and challenges facing Members of Parliament in our closest Federal Territory: Kuala Lumpur. To do that, we speak to Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad, MP for Setiawangsa, about whether MPs have enough tools to serve their constituents, local council elections, as well as his wishlist as a KL MP.

The Wuhan virus has cast a shadow on the prospects on the growth on Asean economies. We speak to Lee Ju Ye, Economist at Maybank Kim Eng in Singapore to find out which country is most vulnerable and the significance of the Chinese economy to the global economy versus 2003 when there was the SARS epidemic.

Global Value Chains (GVCs) offer huge opportunities for economic growth and human development. However, they have been on the wane in recent years. Malaysia, a keen participant in GVCs, is an underachiever, its growth tempered by a social agenda. Aaditya Mattoo, Chief Economist for the East Asia and Pacific, World Bank, discusses.