Zaidel Baharuddin, Vice President, MUDA explains what effective policy measures they would put in place to address youth unemployment and their struggles to keep up with increasing cost of living

Fandbee began life as Lee's Frozen Foods in 1972 at a small retail shop in Kampung Attap, KL. Today, 60 years and 3 generations later, it continues the business in Malaysia, Cambodia and Vietnam. Fandbee's Managing Director, Gareth Tan, shares how the company managed to weather at least 4 global recessions, the Asian Financial Crisis and pandemics.

Sunway University has been recognised as the best in Malaysia in graduate employability. On this episode, Prof Sibrandes Poppema, President of Sunway University, joins us to share his thoughts on why Sunway graduates are highly employable, as well as why families should visit Sunway University’s Open Day in August.

After Undi 18 and automatic voter registration being made law in Malaysia, should we follow the path set by Singapore and Australia to implement compulsory voting. We discuss if this is the right way forward and what could be the impediments to this?

The dust is far from settled in China’s property sector, after the collapse of property giant Evergrande last year. In the latest turn of events, large numbers of homebuyers in China are withholding mortgage payments for homes that property developers have yet to complete. With China’s economy seeing a marked slowdown stemming from Beijing’s Zero-Covid policy amid an ongoing outbreak of cases, what are the implications of a property sector meltdown, which makes up some 25% of China’s GDP? Economist Gary Ng breaks down the issue.

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With Malaysia remaining in Tier Three in the US State Department’s annual Trafficking in Persons Report 2022, we ask migrant rights activist Adrian Pereira why we continue to rank at the bottom on this issue

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This week the Federal Reserve will be meeting. All eyes will be on whether they will raise rates by 75 or 100 basis points. Stephen Innes, Managing Partner at SPI Asset Management gives us his projections and what this means for markets.

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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.

2:15 - A Gentle Reminder To Check-In With Your Friends 

7:11 - TikTok vs. Journalism 

15:38 - International headlines

22:25 - Local headlines

Patrick Teoh takes you on another foot-stomping, hand-clapping ride down memory lane as he blows dust off his vinyl collection to bring you a selection of hits from the 60s to 80s.

This week’s episode of A Bit of Culture features KulturPop’s Matt Armitage and the return of Aidil Rusli, from the band Couple and Playburst. Matt starts the show by talking about digital amnesia and whether our reliance on devices is making us forgetful and complacent. Kam then puts his music hat on to talk about the 4/4 beat, and why we need to ban drum machines, leading to a very interesting input from Aidil and Matt. In the second part of the show, Aidil talks about the constant battle of art vs money in Malaysian cinemas, and whether we can have both at the same time.