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Dr. Sarena Che Omar from Khazanah Research Institute explains how the energy crunch is also affecting the price of fertilizer and how severe the effect will be on rice production and prices.

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Equity market valuations are stretched and caution needs to be exercised with benchmark US bond yields a good monitoring barometer, says Tim Mulholland, President, TJM Limited, in Chicago.

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The show that aims to expand and showcase the boundaries & limitations of jazz music from the old classics to futuristic compositions from all over the world. Nu-jazz, afro beat, acid jazz, hard bop, free jazz - we cover them all!
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01:24 - Ruby Rushton - Yardley Suite

5:15 - Joomanji - Sweet Music (feat Saraa Maria)

09:27 - Atjazz - See Line Woman (The Realm Remix Edit)

13:55 - Hiatus Kaiyote - And We Go Gentle

18:00 - Mighty Sugarcane - Made Of Love

23:00 - Soulstance - Lead The Way

30:25 - Alfa Mist - Bumper Cars

36:04 - Yazmin Lacey - 90 Degrees

41:23 - Donald Byrd - Street Lady

In this episode of I Love KL, we speak to the dynamic duo behind Once Upon A Time With Ms. Susan and Ms. Elaine, a virtual storytelling platform for children that was started during the height of the pandemic to help kids cope with the lockdown. Elaine and Susan join us on the show to share how they got here and what it’s like to entertain kids via Zoom.

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From Orson Welles to Steven Spielberg, Akira Kurosawa to Jordan Peele, Federico Fellini to Greta Gerwig, directors are very often the engine that drives movies. Many outshine onscreen stars, with particular styles and themes associated with them, and often go on to shape entire genres of filmmaking. In this Supercut, we look at the person behind the curtain, so to speak, and talk about our favourite auteurs.

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Batu Kawan MP Kasthuri Patto has called for the government to ratify Cape Town Agreement (CTA) which would protect Malaysian fisherfolk and Malaysian waters. We discuss the significance of this.

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Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin has said that the national testing strategy will be made available on the CovidNow website starting tomorrow. We speak with former Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Dzulkefly Ahmad about what he hopes to see from the strategy.

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The MySejahtera team has revealed that its check-in QR registration function has been misused by “malicious scripts” to send OTP’s and spam emails to users. We look into why this happened.

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Malaysia has now joined a handful of countries around the world that have begun giving out another round of vaccinations for people who have been fully vaccinated, and this began in Sarawak a little over a week ago. We’ve heard it being called both a “third dose” and a “booster shot”, but is there a difference between the two? And would needing this extra shot mean that your immunity is waning? Here to answer those questions and more is Dr Yasmin Gani, infectious disease physician from Hospital Sungai Buloh.

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We hear the words “gene therapy” and immediately many people may be fearful of what it means, that it would involve altering our genes, and thus who we are. But what does it really involve, and how might it change treatment in the future? We explore with neurogeneticist Dr Azlina Ahmad Annuar from Universiti Malaya, and Assoc Prof Dr Cheah Pike See from the Department of Human Anatomy, Universiti Putra Malaysia. 

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