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Air Con, written by Shanon Shah and directed by Jo Kukathas and Zalfian Fuzi, debuted to much acclaim back in 2009 - online audiences will now be able to rewatch the original staging with a virtual streaming. The play is set in an elite boys’ school in Kedah, where the murder of a sex worker pulls back the curtains on a world of bullying, violence, and sex crimes. We review the show, discuss its powerful story, and how its themes resonate today.

Everyone's A Critic is jointly presented with CENDANA. For updates on Malaysian arts and culture, visit BASKL.

The Federal Territories Ministry is looking to hold a town hall session with NGOs, groups and individuals who are distributing aid to the homeless at the end of this month. We speak to an NGO to learn what pressing issues need to be raised.

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Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin said yesterday that the government aims to roll out a third dose of Covid-19 vaccine booster shots beginning in October. First, we weigh out the pros and cons of taking the third shot. Then, we look into the logistics of this, especially timing and supply.

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A feminine hygiene company, Libresse, recently pulled down their ad campaigns after receiving complaints that it was offensive and exploitative to focus on female genitals. We take a closer look.

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The second week of the Parliament sitting begins with debates around a number of issues. Highlights include discussions about the floods in Yan last month, children orphaned due to Covid-19, interstate travel, and teacher shortages. MPs also debated the Agong's opening speech last Monday.

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Digital technology has been at the forefront of this pandemic. It has been harnessed to support the public health response, as well as to facilitate daily activities, like learning, working and communicating. We’ve also seen the adoption of digital technology in healthcare to improve patient care, and to put patients in control of managing their health. Smart wearable technology and devices have been helping people do this for years, and has been especially beneficial for monitoring heart activity. We speak to Datuk Dr Razali Omar, Consultant Electrophysiologist & Cardiologist, from Cardiac Vascular Sentral KL (CVSKL), to find out how wearables can change the landscape of heart care, especially when it comes to heart rhythm disorders.

Gibbons provide one of nature's most enchanting concerts - welcoming the sunrise with their songs, as a way to mark their territories, celebrate unions and more. But their songs are being used by poachers as a means to track and capture juvenile gibbons for the wildlife pet trade, and coupled with habitat loss, gibbons are being pushed further into the endangered species list. The Gibbon Conservation Society have been working tirelessly to rescue gibbons who have been poached and kept illegally as pets, and to raise awareness and put a stop to the wildlife pet trade in Malaysia. We catch up with Mariani Ramli, the Founder of the Gibbon Conservation Society about their work and why proper rehabilitation for rescued gibbons is key to their survival.

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 Two weeks ago, the Health Minister YB Khairy Jamaluddin said that while the number of COVID-19 deaths remains high, especially in the Klang Valley, he expects that it will come down in the coming weeks, as the high number is due to the backlog of reported deaths. However, with the number of deaths reported daily still in the hundreds, how do we make sense of these numbers and trends that are presented by the Ministry of Health? What do they tell us about the trajectory of the pandemic in Malaysia? Here to break it down for us is infectious diseases physician, Datuk Dr Christopher Lee. 

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We’re nearly two years into the Covid-19 pandemic now and we’ve seen many things unfold. One of which is how challenging it has been to manage the vaccination process for non-citizen communities. On the security end of things we’ve seen authorities conduct detentions of undocumented migrants during the lockdowns amid heightened border controls. But on the health end of the spectrum, we’ve seen efforts to coordinate vaccinations for the migrant community through industry employers, or through walk-ins. However, some challenges still remain up until today in the process of getting these groups vaccinated. We speak to Adrian Pereira, Executive Director of the North-South Initiative, Dr Tharani Loganathan, public health specialist from Universiti Malaya, and New Su Shern, founder and president of Project Liber8 to find out more.