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A new vegan brand from Indonesia has entered the Malaysian market – Green Rebel Foods. Helga Angelina Tjahjadi, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Green Rebel Foods started the business with her partner Max Mandias in September 2020. She shares about the demand for plant-based meat alternatives in Indonesia and Malaysia, and what it takes to expand regionally.  

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Philip See speaks to James Gomez, director of the Asia Centre as we discuss the Centre’s most recent report Internet Freedoms in Malaysia: Regulating Online Discourse on Race, Religion, and Royalty as we have a conversation on how the online universe has created a unique set of challenges on ensuring internet freedom.

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STI is up by 5% on YTD basis but can this positive momentum be sustained? Geoff Howie, Market Strategist, Singapore Exchange gives us that answer whilst examining the REIT sector in detail.

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Bursa Malaysia launched Shares2Share scheme recently, to  enable investors to donate their listed securities or proceeds from their sale towards charities supported by Yayasan Bursa Malaysia. Director of Group Sustainability at Bursa Malaysia, Emilia Tee, tells us about how you can make a difference in generating the funds for charitable and worthy causes. Visit  https://www.bursamalaysia.com/about_bursa/sustainability/yayasan-bursa-malaysia/shares2share  for more info.

Overcrowding in public hospitals have reached alarming levels in Malaysia. Azrul Khalib, Chief Executive, from Galen Centre gives us the reasons for it whilst sounding the warning bells on the urgency of critical holistic reform needed for healthcare.

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Prior to GE15, Khairy Jamaluddin boldly stated his ambitions to become the Prime Minister of Malaysia, before his unceremonious sacking from UMNO last week. Will he become a cautionary tale, akin to Icarus flying too close to the sun or is this merely a long opening gambit in the chess game of politics? We hear from Khairy Jamaluddin himself on what happened and his political prospects for the future.

What makes Singapore’s HDB affordable housing scheme so successful, and can this model be replicated here? We discuss this with Alan Cheong, Executive Director of Savills Singapore with affordable housing being a long standing issue in Malaysia with Bank Negara noting that there has been severe mismatch of demand and supply.

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Can China lift Asia economies? The Covid lockdowns hampered the region’s economy hard. Asia was also unique in that it may have been the first to lockdown but it was also slow to reopen. Some of Covid holdouts like Hong Kong, Taiwan and Japan only played catch-up in recovery with much of the world in the latter half of last year. What headwinds is Asia sailing into and will China reopening be a big boost? For answers we speak to Arup Raha, Head of Asian Economics at Oxford Economics.

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As the Chinese markets reopen after the week long Lunar Year Break, we ask Kingsley Jones, Chief Investment Officer at Jevons Global how the markets will behave in 2023. We are dive into the reopening themes and what are the investment opportunities.

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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.