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A total of 14 million doses of the Sinovac vaccine will be sold by Pharmaniaga Bhd to interested states and private companies from this month until September.

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Business associations across the causeway have called for help in areas such as rental relief, wage support and loan moratoriums as Singapore tightens measures amid a resurgence in Covid-19 infections in the community.

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Many have called for complementary medical services to be allowed to continue operating during the first phase of the National Recovery Plan as they alleviate the burden on an already overloaded healthcare system.

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POMEN is an automotive maintenance platform connecting car drivers with nearby workshops, all from a single click of a button in a single App, offering a 24/7 assistance for Malaysian drivers that is able to connect to an ecosystem of registered workshops, wherever you are. Is this the ideal tool for the non-mechanically minded driver?

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Founded in 2014, WhyQ started out as a hawker-first digital ecosystem enabling hawkers in Singapore to deliver cooked food and order wholesale raw-material supplies aided with integrated POS systems. WhyQ works to digitalise not just hawkers, but also small businesses such as MSMEs across all industries and sectors in Malaysia.

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Following up from our episode last week on BNPL - or Buy Now, Pay Later - today on the show Roshan Kanesan expands the conversation on credit and debt, and take a look at what good debt management looks like with writer Suraya Zainuddin of ringgitohringgit.com and Licensed Financial Planner Idham Idris from Wealth Vantage Advisory.

Other episodes to check out:

> Buy Now, Pay Later: Good, Bad, or Complicated? -

> Wedding Planning: Critical Advice, Common Mistakes, And Taking On Debt

> Bankruptcy: Basics, Impacts, And Way Out

Dr. Juita Mohamad, Fellow at ISIS Malaysia, discusses the rising incidences and the govt's policy response on the country's homeless, their plights considerably worsened by Covid-induced economic distress.

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Russia and Malaysia have had diplomatic ties since the 1960s, yet bilateral trade values remain low. How can this be improved and is the production of Sputnik V vaccines in this country be part of that? We speak to H.E. Nail Latypov, Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Malaysia to find out.

The Cansino vaccine was given conditional approval for emergency use in Malaysia by the Drug Control Authority on June 15. We speak to Dato Mohd Nazlee Kamal, Deputy Group Managing Director of Solutions Group Berhad which entered into a deal with China’s CanSino Biologics to distribute the vaccine on their plans and the contributions to Solutions Group's bottom line.

The Tokyo Olympics will begin this week against the backdrop of rising cases in Japan and around the world. Already, more than 70 people associated with the Games have tested positive for the virus. And the head of the Japanese Olympic Committee even suggested that the Games could be canceled depending on case numbers. We speak to Tokyo-based journalist William Pesek for insight into the mood in Japan ahead of the opening ceremony, and what this means for Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s political future.

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