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Our resident heritage conservation expert Elizabeth Cardosa returns for our first monthly episode of the year to walk us through her work and how they assess how heritage buildings should be managed. Should they be renovated to accommodate contemporary use? How should they be dealt with if they’re planning to repurpose these buildings? And what if these buildings need to be demolished? She elaborates on the considerations that needed to be taken, and more, on this episode.

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Long stares, detailed monologues, anger that you can't take your eyes off of - all hallmarks of Intense Actors. After a week of discussing both Ralph Fiennes and Christian Bale, we're dedicating this week's Supercut to actors that never turn that dial down, and what makes them so compelling.

We continue our mini-series on resolutions for our ministries to achieve in 2023 by looking at the Ministry of Health. First, we discuss what the priorities should be when it comes to public health. Then later, we hone in on the wellbeing of our doctors.

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After years of shoddy Bahasa Malaysia subtitles for English movies, people are now praising some recent examples of great translations. We get into it.

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近期在菲律宾，一公斤洋葱的价格上涨至鸡肉和猪肉的2到3倍，甚至已经飙升到高于每日最低工资的水平，就连牛胸肉也比洋葱便宜30%。而随着菲律宾洋葱价格不停上涨，全球粮食危机的问题也再次敲响警钟，提醒全球人民糧食危機迫在眉睫。

We look at the UMNO General Assembly, and the headlines swirling around it.

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For many of us, a fall might be nothing more than some scrapes and bruises, but for people aged 65 and above, falls can be detrimental as a main contributor to disability and morbidity among older adults. In September last year (2022), the World Falls Task Force, composed of experts from 39 countries, published the World Guidelines for Falls Prevention in Older Adults, to provide a framework so that we can better prevent and manage falls among older adults. Here to share more about that on this is consultant geriatrician Prof Dr Tan Maw Pin, who was also part of the steering committee and the Lower-and-Middle Income Countries Working Group in the development of the guidelines. 

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最近如果有关注汽车市场的朋友，应该会对一件事情感到特别振奋人心，因为森那美最近便在本地推介的首款比亚迪电动车，销量相当火热，首2周预订突破1000辆.到底比亚迪是一家怎么样的公司呢？本期市场追踪让我们来好好了解一下，这家中国新能源汽车的崛起。

First-time MP, YB Syerleena Abdul Rashid recently won the Bukit Bendera Parliamentary seat in Penang with a comfortable 42 000 majority, at GE15. She is also the ADUN of Seri Delima, a seat that she won in 2018. What’s interesting is Syerleena is also a musician – a guitarist and a songwriter with multiple bands, to be specific. On today’s episode, she joins us to have a conversation about why she pursued politics, her ideologies, the challenges faced by Malay politicians in DAP, the rise of religious fundamentalism in Malaysia, even in Penang and her passion for the arts.

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Sabah politics is in the limelight over the past couple of weeks, as the government was first on the verge of collapse but now seems to have stabilised with the formation of a state level unity government. But what exactly happened? Who are the major players involved? And what does this all mean for Sabah politics moving forward? We unpack