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We take a look at the housing situation in Malaysia, and address some current issues. First, we discuss reports that only four developers are capable of build-then-sell models - the most secure for first-time buyers. Then, we discuss whether affordable housing should be a human right. To conclude, we ask: how does the government enter the picture?

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With the unveiling of the Occupational Safety and Health Master Plan by the Prime Minister yesterday, we speak to safety practitioner Dr. Krishna Bala. He reflects on his takeaways from his professional journey in the safety field, and also discusses his recent book, My Life In Safety.

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In conjunction with World Sight Day, this month’s open clinic segment features clinical optometrist Vinodhini Naidu to answer all your questions about low vision problems and other vision-related issues.

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Recently, Kamarazaman Yaakob, who is the brother to Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob, recently announced that he’s launching a new party called Parti Kuasa Rakyat. Kamarazaman has said that his party will champion the poor and be a BN-friendly party. This announcement, which seemingly came out of nowhere, has got many wondering if Malaysia needs another political party in an already saturated political landscape? Oh Ei Sun helps us unpack.

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The good news is, schools have reopened. But not every child is back in school yet, and blanket rules are still being applied to tackle the reopening of schools in Malaysia. In the final episode of our series, we first catch up with Joanna Menon Lim, the  Co-Founder of the Buka Sekolah Kami Campaign, for a progress report on the campaign, before revisiting all the other five episodes we've done in the series, which outlined the different impacts school closures have had on children. 

This series is done in collaboration with Buka Sekolah Kami! a coalition of teachers, parents, educational institutions, medical professionals and grassroots organizations, who believe that the cost of school closures greatly outweigh the benefits. They are advocating for policy makers to prioritize the reopening of schools on a national level, and the need for a decentralised solution, and an end to blanket policies. 

Over in Silicon Valley, employees who do not want to return to the office are challenging the popular management philosophy that serendipitous, in-person collaboration is necessary to fuel innovation. We discuss the recent rise in internal employee activists there, its ripple effects that will impact white-collar workers elsewhere, and if employees in Malaysia will also take up this unexpected fight.

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Think about all the times that you connect to your streaming service, or you upload a document somewhere, or even when you log into one of your bank accounts - How do you think that data is accessed?

Would you be surprised to find out that a lot of that data is stored in ‘The Cloud?’ But what exactly do you know about Cloud Computing? How long has it been around, and where did it start? And how much of the world in which we live in now, is dependent on it?

Just as the pandemic was beginning to gain traction in China, and before it spread anywhere else, we spoke with the owner of the KLoé hotel Ng Ping Ho. Now, 18 months on as we hopefully see things slowly return to normal, we thought we’d drop back in to see just how things worked out for the hotel, and how they managed to survive.

It’s a wonderful thing to be able to say you are newly debt-free. Paying off your debt is like being handed a blank piece of paper on which to write the next chapter of your life. But while many of us aspire to be debt free, the reality is that most of us will have to live with debt until old age. Is this a bad thing though? How can you make debt work for you and live with it positively? What are the important factors to consider when in debt? Felix Neoh of Finwealth Management answers all these questions.

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As the economy reopens and the country transitions to an endemic Covid-19 strategy, employers are faced with the conundrum of how to manage the return of unvaccinated employees to the workplace. How are businesses approaching this issue? We get the position of the Malaysia Employers Federation (MEF), as well as their wishlist for Budget 2022.

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