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Remember how everyone took their love for food to the next level during the pandemic? The husband and wife duo behind La Qumar was no exception to this. They took their favourite sauce, toum, and turned it into a business. Saravanakkumar Shanmugam and Lalitha Balakrishnan, the founders of La Qumar Foods tell us more about this. 

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Many of us are worried about the trajectory of Malaysia residential market. On today's property show, we speak to Sheldon Fernandez, Country Manager Malaysia for Property Guru to unpack the different surveys and indexes that Property Guru has in place to measure the sentiment and also market direction. With the concerns of government stimulus waning and bank negara increasing the OPR, are we going to see a down turn in the residential market across the nation?

Philip See asks Professor Steve Keen, an Australian economist and Author of The New Economics: A Manifesto about creating alternative and realistic economics for a world that is trying to recover from the effects of the pandemic.

• He also asked him whether raising rates is still effective in tamping down inflation and why the study of economics need a major reformation to intertwine with energy, environment and social media.

Recent statistics from the Women, Family and Community Development Ministry have revealed that in 2021 alone, 752 senior citizens were abandoned at hospitals by their family members. With Malaysia soon to become an ageing population by 2030, what should the Senior Citizens Act, currently being drafted, include to ensure both the protection of the elderly and the empowerment of their caregivers. Hawati Abdul Hamid, a Researcher at Khazanah Research Institute breaks down the issue for us.

In the region, central banks have also raised rates but what does this mean for Asean banks? Will the economic slowdown eat into earnings? Thilan Wickramasinghe, Head of Research Singapore at Maybank Investment Banking Group tell us the important answer especially since banks are a barometer of an economy.

Malaysia has already lost more than 15% of her beaches with things set to become worse. In the peninsula alone, more than 30 beaches have experienced critical erosion of over 4 metres a year and the National Coastal Erosion Study 2015 revealed that many of these beaches could be lost in the next 10 years or so. Associate Professor Dr Effi Helmy Ariffin, Deputy Director at Universiti Malaysia Terengganu's Institute of Oceanography and Environment (INOS) talks to us about the impact of coastal erosion and if enough is being done to address it.

There is a deepening inversion of the US yield curve, the most since August 2020. Are the bond traders right that a recession is inevitable or do we believe the narrative by the Federal Reserve that they can engineers a soft landing. Carlos Casanova, Senior Economist at UBP attempts to answer that question.

We get you out of bed, to your first cup of coffee or to your first destination of your day with thought-provoking discussions on ideas, people and events shaping all our lives.

2:03 - Do accents bother you?
7:50 - Are we becoming less kind to each other?
14:12 - International headlines
19:57 - Local headlines

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In conjunction with the 42nd anniversary of George Benson's seminal album Give Me The Night, we go through the living-legend's best work over his six-decades of music.
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Breezin’ [Breezin', 1976]

Lady Love Me (One More Time) [In Your Eyes, 1983]

Turn Your Love Around [The George Benson Collection,1981]

20/20 [20/20, 1985]

Livin Inside Your Love [Livin' Inside Your Love 1979]

George Benson & Earl Klugh - Dreamin’ [Collaboration 1987]

This Masquerade [Breezin' 1976]

The Ghetto[Absolute Benson, 2000]

Affirmation [Breezin', 1976]

There are some films - you know the type - that you wouldn't have thought to watch until someone you trust recommends them to you. In this episode of Supercut, we talk about some of the films and shows we'd recommend to whoever asks (and sometimes even when they don't), as well as some of our favourites that someone else said we simply had to watch.