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The Attorney General Chambers has advised that all civil servents and documents must now identify Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin by his legal name, Mahiaddin Md Yasin or Tan Sri Dato Haji Mahiaddin Md Yasin. We look at how this directive came to be.

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The last few weeks in politics and the pandemic have been especially volatile, leaving many of us feeling hopeless and fatigued. To work through this collective burn out, we speak with someone who works in advocacy about how they keep driving for change. Then, we look at how business owners are forging ahead despite these difficult times. Finally, we hear from a psychiatrist on how to deal with this feeling of fatigue or mental exhaustion.

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More and more people have been investing in cryptocurrencies, with many groups believing that digital currencies are an ideal investment option. Dhanya tells us more. Image Source: Austin Distel, Unsplash

The reports of alleged sexual harassment and abuse within our sports industry has emphasised the need for us to call for serious actions to be taken. Cindy Ong joins us to speak about her experiences, and what we can do to better protect our atheletes from abuse.

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Medical experts have been talking about COVID-19 variants and the importance of genomic surveillance, but what exactly does that involve? With variants of concern spreading across the country - and the world - we are joined by consultant urologist Dr George Lee and Dr Dale Fisher, Professor of Infectious Diseases at the National University of Singapore to find out what effective genomic surveillance looks like, what Singapore is doing to keep track of variants within their borders and what Malaysia can learn from our neighbour. 

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The Pit Stop Community Cafe is a social enterprise working towards solutions for homelessness, urban poverty, and hunger, among others, in our capital city. Since 2016, they’ve been providing both hot meals and job training for people from the homeless and urban poor communities in KL, but like many social enterprises and soup kitchens, the past 15 months have not been easy for them. Yet, they have been soldiering on to continue the work that they do, and to find out more about that and how people can lend a helping hand, we speak to the co-founders of Pit Stop Community Cafe, Joycelyn Lee and Andrea Tan.

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 Phase 2 of the COVID-19 vaccination programme is now underway. In this ongoing series, senior citizens who have gotten their jabs share their stories, to allay fears and concerns about getting the vaccination. This episode features Puan Sri Dr Rebecca George, 87, who is one of Malaysia’s earliest female paediatricians.

The FreedomFilmFest has been bringing socially relevant, human rights films to Malaysians since 2003. Now, as we stay home to stay safe, the folks behind the Freedom Film Network are releasing a specially curated FFF film playlist every Friday - dubbed ‘Weekend Watch with FreedomFilmFest' - on their YouTube channel, giving us plenty to watch, and lots of food for thought. This weekend's playlist is centered around the theme of refugees, as it's World Refugee Day this Sunday, and we speak to Hari Azizan, the director of the short documentary The Invisible Children, which explores how refugee children in Malaysia lack access to education, and how that impacts their life and development.

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The FreedomFilmFest has been bringing socially relevant, human rights films to Malaysians since 2003. Now, as we stay home to stay safe, the folks behind the Freedom Film Network are releasing a specially curated FFF film playlist every Friday - dubbed ‘Weekend Watch with FreedomFilmFest' - on their YouTube channel, giving us plenty to watch, and lots of food for thought. This weekend's playlist will be focussing on the lives of refugees, in conjunction with World Refugee Day this Sunday. We speak to Nor Arlene Tan, the co-director of "Selfie with The Prime Minister" which is a short film about Ziaur Rahman, a Rohingya refugee who grew up in a refugee camp and was trafficked seven times by human traffickers, before ending up in Malaysia. The film is a short look into his day-to-day life as a refugee in Malaysia, and his quest for normalcy and freedom.

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Instead of nose swabs and test tubes, there may be a faster way to determine Covid-19 infections. In a study conducted in the UK, dogs were able to detect Covid-19 on clothing worn by infected people with up to 94.3% sensitivity.