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We catch up with Bryan Chin, founder of the Malaysian sneaker community leader, SneakerLAH which was recently valued at RM35.2 million from NAVER through its affiliate company and reseller platform, KREAM. The strategic buyout sees KREAM choosing to take 22.47% stake (RM7.48 million) into Shake Hands Sdn Bhd., the parent company to SneakerLAH. How did a small community event wind up with such a valuation? Tune in to find out.

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股权众筹真的是想象中那般简单的融资渠道吗？作为吴文彬口中，上市前的演练，股权众筹显然也算得上高风险投资。因此，除了让企业具备相关操作知识；投资者教育也是相当重要的。

本周的上半期节目中，就让我们先来了解：股权众筹当中，投资者与融资企业之间的关系。

With cost of living rising while wages remain stagnant and the investment markets in turmoil, how do adherents of the FIRE movement (financial independence, retire early) continue with their strategy to work hard and retire early? Is it still achievable in this day and age? Sim Wie Boon speaks to Aaron Tang of mr-stingy.com to find out more. 

The FBMKLCI on a year to date basis is not the worst performing market in ASEAN but still underperforms Singapore and the Jakarta. Can the Malaysian market play catch up? Does the recently concluded result season give us any clues as to whether it is possible. Alexander Chia, Regional Head of Research, RHB Bank tells us.

Having survived through the pandemic, many construction players are now faced with a new set of challenges like rising material cost and labour shortages. Philip catches up with Datuk Dr Lim Jee Gin, group managing director of construction company Nestcon on the Breakfast Grille to discuss how the company plans to navigate rising material costs, labour shortages and returning profit to shareholders.

当我们谈到关于电子品牌的时候，你也许想到的是苹果、华硕、宏碁之类等等的品牌。但我们很少会想到其实马来西亚也有自己的电子产品的品牌。而我国著名电子零售商品牌ITWorld和GLOO，便是SNS网络科技公司旗下的公司之一，在全马各地都可以看到他们的身影。除了销售第三方品牌外，该公还有自己品牌，名为JOI，公司也即将在9月正式在大马创业板上市。SNS公司董事经理吴云汉到我们的节目中来跟我们分享公司上市的布局。

The Department of Statistics Malaysia revealed that more than 70 percent of post-SPM students do not intend to continue with their studies after SPM and STPM. We ask YB Teo Nie Ching, Former Deputy Minister of Education and MP for Kulai what is deferring students from furthering their studies and what actions need to be taken to resolve this.

As concerns over Covid-19 wane, Europe is expected to recover 70% of pre-pandemic travel demand in 2022. The recovery could be attributed to the EU Digital COVID Certificate which helped ease the process of travelling between EU members. Back in 2020 when the pandemic first hit, ASEAN countries did consider an intra-ASEAN travel corridor but it never came into being. And while tourism has returned to the region, did ASEAN miss a valuable opportunity to kickstart tourism recovery earlier?

The summer of 2022 saw major, sustained drought over the globe, from Europe to China to the United States and Africa, with dire ramifications ranging from energy shortages to food insecurity. Dr. Mariam Zachariah, Research Associate working with the World Weather Attribution initiative, at the Grantham Institute for Climate change and the Environment of Imperial College London helps us understand what is driving these dry spells and what we can do about it.