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According to the e-Conomy SEA 2022 report, about 100 million of the 460 million internet users in SEA have come online in the past 3 years. How can businesses continue to embrace digitalisation, and what resources or support structures are out there to help SMEs build their digital resilience? Claire Featherstone, Maxis’ Acting Chief Enterprise Business Officer, explains.

On this, the finale of our five-part series on Succession Planning, organisational psychologist & CEO of O-Psych, Hetal Doshi, runs us through the seven things executives should never do if you want to be CEO, as well as some unexpected insights from a 10-year Genome study on CEOs. 

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Shahnaz Interiors is dedicated to transforming the nation’s healthcare facilities from monolithic concrete blocks to inspiring and contemporary spaces for healing the patients. Nazrin Shahnaz, the CEO of Shahnaz Interiors shares how they intend to humanise the hospital experience, and why this is crucial in light of the pandemic.

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Interested in a career in ESG? With such rapid adoption of ESG by companies worldwide, the demand for ESG professionals is certainly on the rise. How do you be more ESG-equipped and is there a certificate which you can take? In today’s episode of People Planet Profit, Chong Tjen San discusses this with Bobby Lee, Board of Director - Candidate Engagement from CFAMalaysia.

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What would we do without dedicated number crunchers, to help us make sense of all things accountirelated? Ahead of International Accounting Day - celebrated annually on the 10th of November - we speak to Jason Lo, the Head of Taylor's College School of Professional Studies about this trusted profession, and its role in society. We also discuss the inaugural Taylor’s International Accounting Day festival, which aims to recognise and celebrate the outstanding contribution of accounting professionals in Malaysia. For more information about TIADF’22, please visit https://bit.ly/3MphanH

A recent Merdeka Center survey points to a decline in Barisan National’s popularity. We ask Ibrahim Suffian, programme director of Merdeka Center, on the reasons for this and who stands to benefit.

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After Malaysia was unceremoniously downgraded by FAA, questions were raised about our safety standard. We speak to Datuk Captain Chester Voo Chee Soon, CEO of the Civil Aviation Authority of Malaysia (CAAM), about how challenging it was to restore our status after 3 years. We also asked if the MAVCOM and CAAM merger is still pending.

The Covid-19 pandemic experience underscored the importance of prioritising healthcare issues in government policy. In addition to over 30,000 lives lost to the virus, the pandemic revealed the gaps in Malaysia's creaking public healthcare infrastructure. What should the next government be looking to prioritise in public health policy? Azrul Mohd Khalib of the Galen Centre gives us his election manifesto wishlist.

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Brazil’s next president will be Luis Inacio Da Silva, commonly known as Lula, after he won the run-off race by a majority of less than 2%. Both candidates represent the ends of the left and right spectrums and are controversial characters in the country, and these elements spilled over into the long campaign. We discuss what to expect next with Clara Ferreira Marques of Bloomberg Opinion.

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It is almost a given that the Fed will raise interest rates by 75bp this week. But will the rate of increases taper off from here, as there appears to be signs of inflation abating, money supply growth easing and unemployment inching up. However, the pace of increases may not taper off so soon for UK and Europe, as the inflation there is still high. For insights, we speak to Joe Quinlan, Chief Market Strategist, US Trust-BOA Private Wealth Management.

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