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美联储越来越鹰，除了美元走强之外，全球股汇市场都遭遇下杀，我们是在迈向下一个全球经济危机吗？还是我们已经处在漩涡里头了？来自域锋环球董事林卓锋，Tradeview资本基金经理黄子伦将为你带来精辟的剖析。

Are our youths equipped with sufficient digital skills when most businesses are moving towards digitalisation? Together with the recent study by DOSM that shows nearly 70 percent of our SPM graduates not wanting to further their studies in tertiary education, what should we be doing to address this? Dr. Nagulendran a/l Kangayatkarasu, Deputy Secretary General at MOSTI joins us to discuss the factors of this situation and the various initiatives being put forward to encourage the interest in Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) among our youths.

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大马卫生部长凯利在7月中时透露，他已经被科学角度与证据所说服，该局将在今年内为大麻中最主要提取物之一的大麻二酚（CBD）拟定合法化框架。或许部分人觉得这一切来得太快？但是大马真的走得太快吗？其实，目前超过40个国家合法化大麻医疗用途，包括英国、德国、意大利、澳州、加拿大、纽西兰、智利、哥伦比亚、希腊、以色列、荷兰、秘鲁、波兰和乌拉圭。我们的邻国泰国它在2018年允许大麻作为医疗用途，今年6月9日进一步允许种植大麻，以及在食品和饮料中限量使用大麻。南洋商报团队还特地飞到泰国采访和考察，在当地有很多深入的观察。

【独家/视频】探索大麻经济 蓬生“麻”中是毒是药?

【独家/视频】国添税收·农增利润 大麻加工业化草为宝

【独家】民间不懂掌握分量可酿祸 监管大麻马虎不得

【独家】杜绝黑市·堵不如疏 大麻能带动旅游经济

Life is relationships, and now more than ever. In this post Covid economy, hit by impending inflation and recessions locally and globally, good personal and professional relationships are what will help us win at work and in life. Jeevan Sahadevan, the founder of LeverageLab, shares eleven powerful strategies to help us master our relationships as we move closer to 2023. 

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Louise Chu, the founder of Claire Organics, started creating handmade soaps with all natural ingredients back in 2012. After operating for a decade, Louise is here to share Claire Organics’ journey, as well as how she benefited from the SME Digitization grant received from the Ministry of Finance from the Budget 2022 scheme.

UK media coverage of the Queen's death and state funeral focused on the narrative of national mourning. But is this an accurate reflection of the diverse views held by the British population on the monarchy? Marcus Ryder from the Sir Lenny Henry Centre for Media Diversity discusses the implications of an absence of media diversity on complex national issues.

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The Straits Times Index (STI) has given up all its gains on a year to date basis but still remains one of the better performing Asia markets. What then is the outlook for the last quarter of the year considering the deceleration of the global economy? Geoff Howie, Market Strategist at Singapore Exchange gives us his outlook.

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With UMNO sending the strongest signal yet that GE15 will be called before the end of the year, we speak to Ibrahim Suffian of the Merdeka Centre for analysis, and what an earlier GE15 will mean for the incumbents and the opposition.

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With Bank Negara announcing a series of new measures last week to help safeguard against financial scams, we speak to Aznan Abdul Aziz, Assistant Governor of Bank Negara Malaysia about the implementation of these measures.

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Oil and gas service and equipment company, Uzma Group has faced volatile oil prices in the last two years leading to a sharp deceleration of earnings. We ask founder and CEO, Dato' Kamarul Redzuan Muhamed about the impact of unstable market conditions, what efforts are being taken to detach from black gold, and of course, if we should buy the stock of this listed company.