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Recently on social media, renowned healthcare expert Prof. Dr. Adeeba Kamaruzzaman lamented the fact that Malaysia was losing its best and brightest medical graduates to Singapore every year. This reignited a long, ongoing debate on how to tackle the pervasive brain drain in key economic sectors. Dr Niaz Asadullah, Southeast Asia Lead at the Global Labor Organisation, Professor of Economics, at Monash University Malaysia tells us if we can reverse this structural issue.

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In spite of economies largely reopening in 2022, there were still many trials and tribulations for companies this year due to rising inflation, higher cost of borrowing due to the central banks raising interest rates and consumers generally tightening their belts. This had contrasting impacts on two sectors where banks generally benefited and the F&B sector did not.

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2022年马上便要结束，但市场对于明年全球经济可能会面临衰退的担忧，似乎没有减少。国际货币基金组织最近发布报告便显示，全世界有超过三分之一的经济体将在2023年出现萎缩，而美国、欧盟和中国这三个最大的经济体将处于增长停滞的状态。国际知名经济学家丹斯里沈联涛，将在节目中剖析明年全球经济衰退的预期，并点出面对潜在性的衰退风险，大马应当如何自处？

Extra ingredients are usually a welcome addition in a dish but not when it comes to rodents and insects. We speak to Jeremy Lim, Vice-President at Persatuan Pemilik Restoran dan Bistro as to what are the minimum health and safety standards for the F&B sector and is compliance and enforcement the real issue?

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The Shanghai Composite Index is down 15% year-to-date but has bounced off its October lows following the China Party Congress meeting that month. Since then, there were a slew of changes with regards to Covid-19 restrictions which were fast and abrupt. More recently China said it will remove quarantine requirements for inbound travellers from January 8. Has the Chinese economy passed its most challenging period and what sectors and stocks should investors be keeping their eyes on in 2023?

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Tech billionaires, beautiful Greek islands... and murder! Fortunately for the characters on this getaway, Detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) is on the case and will peel away at the layers of this mystery to uncover the truth. Glass Onion, the highly anticipated sequel-of-sorts to Rian Johnson's critically acclaimed Knives Out, lines up Kate Hudson, Jessica Henwick, Edward Norton, Kathryn Hahn, and Janelle Monae in a film that's already being called one of the best releases of the year. In this episode, we discuss what we love about Glass Onion, if it has downsides, and if it's a worthy follow-up to Knives Out. 

According to a CodeBlue report, seriously sick non-Covid patients have had to wait at the emergency and trauma department Red Zone for an average of two to three days, sometimes going up to six days for admission into scarce critical care beds. The Health Minister has announced that they are drawing up plans to resolve this issue. We discuss what's needed.

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回顾今年，整个市场最超出预期的，大概就是美联储货币政策的大幅转向，在罕见的大幅升息下，全球的资产表现在2022年都乏善可陈但明年美股的表现会更好吗？还是有更多未知的黑天鹅事件在等着我们？本期节目Trident Analytics创办人林子证将回顾今年市场行情表现，以及2023年国际市场的前景。

作为全球 19 个北极熊栖地之一，『西哈德逊湾』被称为「北极熊之都」。然而，在全球暖化的浪潮下，当地北极熊数量正在以令人震惊的速度骤减。气候问题，并不是单纯的环境议题；而是涉及民生、经济、全人类的重大课题。以加拿大这处北极熊旅游胜地为例：除了学术研究，从四面八方、为北极熊而来的观光旅客，一年就能为当地引进超过 3 千万令吉的经济收益！那么，环境与气候危机这道题，究竟该怎么解？北极熊是否又正朝着灭绝的重点蹒跚迈进呢？

In this Year in Review Special on Resource Centre, Jostein Aksnes from Bangkok-based Seven Peaks talks to us about navigating Asia’s booming digital economy, as well as digital trends we can expect to see in business in 2023.

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