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One of Southeast Asia’s largest SME digital financing platforms, Funding Societies Malaysia, along with renowned online food and grocery delivery platform, Foodpanda, have put their heads together to introduce a new pre-approved financing service that allows SMEs to get a financing plan without any repayment of principal for the first three months.

Due to the pandemic, the event industry has come to a halt. With prolonged closure, survival seems bleak. We speak to Jermaine Bee from The Ark Event Space to discuss more on the adaptations she had to make in order to survive and the possible solutions that can be explored in order to move forward.

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As part of our 64th Merdeka Day celebrations, we’re taking a look this week at Malaysia: The Next Chapter - companies and people who exemplify the potential in Malaysia’s future. Steven Lee, proprietor of Ban Wah Textiles, shares the shop’s history stemming from the era of World War 2, his pride in passing on his family business to his son, and how he is faring through the storm of the pandemic.

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Malaysia once had the largest weightage on the MSCI Emerging Markets Index at 33% but that has dropped to a 2.5% weight.

Even from a market capitalisation perspective, Malaysia has been eclipsed by almost all other Asean countries except for the Philippines and Vietnam. Pankaj C. Kumar, business commentator tells us the hard truth as to how vibrancy can be returned to our capital markets.

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Terms like unemployment, underemployment, upskilling, social protection and inequality are issues we’ve been hearing more about in the last few years as Malaysia’s economic structure took a hit from the pandemic. But these are not new issues. In conjunction with Merdeka, Tricia Yeoh of IDEAS and Nell Omar of the Centre joins us in a discussion on the way forward for Malaysia’s economy.

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Dr Vinod Balasubramaniam from the Jeffrey Cheah School of Medicine & Health Sciences provides detailed explanation on the rationale, process and approvals required if Malaysia does begin manufacturing its own vaccines as the pandemic lingers on.

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Adrian Ang, Research Fellow from the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies helps us unpack how the US Afghanistan pullout has short term and long term ramifications on US foreign policy and how will this impact Joe Biden's popularity in the US.

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Jack Kouzi explains why China tech has reached its bottom as the recent regulatory crackdown has sent China tech stocks to new lows.

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随着我国开放更多经济领域，经济复苏再度出现曙光。然而，如今疫情依然严峻，每日确诊数据连续多日超过2万宗，内需消费市场更是相当低迷，令业者好奇如今他们的机会在哪里？不久前刚加入国家复苏理事会的中小型企业公会会长拿督江华强从疫情爆发以来，便多次发出诉求，经历了超过1年的时间，他在洞察中小型企业在疫情中转型有何看见？同时，江华强也将在这期节目中分享，中小企业应该如何在经济大开放中重新开始，以抓紧市场先机。