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During the height of the Covid crisis, China's economy was the bright spot but will that change in 2022? Is the Evergrande crisis over or is this the start of a property bubble? We ask Gary Ng, Asia-Pacific economist at Natixis these questions. Image credit: Unsplash.com

Universiti Malaya Press has published a book aiming to educate Malaysians on the electoral process, written by two former members of the Electoral Reform Committee, which was established to review election laws and systems. We spoke to Dr G Manimaran, one of the authors, to find out more.

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Today, we look into the trending hashtag #CucukMYAZ as more AstraZeneca vaccine recipients receive their booster shots.

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After years of being rejected, a group of Malaysian mothers, whose children were previously denied citizenship because they were born overseas to foreign fathers, finally managed to start the process to get the children’s citizenship confirmation certificate at the National Registration Department (JPN) yesterday. We discuss their response to this, and what it took for them to get to this point.

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On this edition of Best of Beyond the Ballot Box 2021, we look back at the year that was in Malaysian politics – from infighting in UMNO, another scramble for numbers in Parliament to Ismail Sabri’s 100 Days as Prime Minister.

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Carmelo Ferlito from the Center for Market Education calls for more thoughtful and structural reforms in the economy in order to drive more private investment as the government grapples with dealing the short term financial pressures caused by the floods. Image credit: Shutterstock.com

The travel and tourism sectors were the hardest hit by the pandemic as global and domestic borders shuttered. How have different industry players navigated the patchy border reopenings? We revisit conversations on travel and tourism amid the uneven pandemic recovery. Image credit: Unsplash.com

The recent floods have left many car owners in despair with big bills but what are the options to ease the pain from the government and also the private sector. Danny Tan from www.paultan.org tells us. Image credit: Unsplash.com

Equities will still outperform other asset classes despite omicron and inflation. But when should you take some money off the table. Lee Kian Soon from Astral Asset Management gives us the answer. Image credit: Unsplash.com

2021 has been a whirlwind of surprises - from ABBA's comeback, Foo Fighters venturing into disco-boogie, to an unexpected east-west collaboration of Coldplay & BTS - new music was served in abundance too with more producers & musicians spending a majority of time in the studios due to the absence of live-shows. As per tradition, the Pulse crew shifts through the new releases and pick their favorites tunes of the year that was.

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Little Simz - Woman (feat. Cleo Sol)

Kanye West - Junya (feat. Playboi Carti)

Atjazz - See Line Woman (feat. Dominque Fils-Aime)

Pink Pantheress - Just For Me

Kareem Ali - I Feel It All (Warm Up)  

Hiatus Kaiyote - Get Sun (feat. Arthur Verocai)

Bonobo - Otomo

Faye Webster - A Dream With a Baseball Player

CHAI - Nobody Knows We’re Fun

Silk Sonic - Smokin Out The Window