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Four Malaysian restaurants received their first Michelin Stars, with two being in Kuala Lumpur, and the other two in Penang. First, we speak to a restaurateur that has been awarded a Michelin star. And then, we talk about where the Michelin guide fits into our food culture.

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Elon Musk was invited to Dave Chappelle's comedy show, where the audience greeted him with boos and videos of this have been circulating social media ever since. We look at what people on Twitter have been saying.

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美国11月CPI和核心CPI双双低于预期，通膨率只是达到了7.1%，这已经是连续好几月，都处于下降的趋势。然而，通膨回到去正常的水平只是时间上的问题，美联储现在是否应该停止升息呢？Trident Analytics创办人林子证将在节目中，分析通膨拐点出现后，美联储的下一步到底是什么？

Former cyptocurrency billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried has been arrested for fraud by the Bahamian authorities, and is being touted as the 'one of the biggest financial frauds in America.' We discuss his arrest, the reputation he holds in the crypto world, and how it all ties into the narrative surrounding his crypto empire.

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“白纸运动”的抗议浪潮下，中国政府放松了严格的防控政策，各地已突然放弃了近三年的大规模控制措施。但是中国突然的解封也让人们措手不及，发烧门诊大排长龙，医疗量能面临挑战。专家建议中国政府必须加快疫苗接种速度，并且考虑进口更有效的疫苗才有办法开始与病毒共存。 

The critical issue of shortage within the nursing profession - serving both public and private hospitals - has carried over across several administrations. In February this year, then-Minister of Health Khairy Jamaluddin said MOH would conduct a detailed analysis and study on the shortage of nurses in government hospitals and clinics. Barely a week into the new administration under Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim, the Association of Private Hospitals flagged the severe nursing shortage in private hospitals, and called on the new Minister of Health to bring in trained foreign nurses. Is liberalisation of the nursing profession, as other countries have done, the way to go? We explore in our Public Health show. 

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We have a new rebranded Ministry of Natural Resources, Environment and Climate Change, led by YB Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad. What are among the issues that he should prioritise? We speak to two Earth Matters regulars, about what they hope the ministry will focus on, as we collectively tackle the triple planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution. First we hear from Andrew Sebastian, the Founder & Chief Executive Officer of the Ecotourism & Conservation Society Malaysia (ECOMY), and in Part 2, we speak to Ili Nadiah Dzulfakar, the Chairperson of Klima Action Malaysia (KAMY) , and member of Gabungan Darurat Iklim Malaysia (GDIMY).

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Recently, health minister Dr Zaliha Mustafa announced an initiative to provide free sanitary pads in the Ministry of Health (MOH) to combat period poverty. She said that the initiative will launch in MOH itself, in which free sanitary pads will be placed in the washroom of the minister’s office. The announcement drew mixed reactions from the public, with many calling it a step in the right direction, while others say the initiative should be targeted better. 

So, is it a good initiative, is it not? Perhaps it’s a great initiative that in a typical Harapan fashion, wasn’t communicated properly. 

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Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few weeks, you’ll have seen social media – and most of the Internet, swamped with AI images. Some of your friends might have even posted them giving examples of what they might look like as a superhero, or as a Pixar character — all manners of interpretations of the human form. And yet, all of these images are not real, convincing as they are, they were created by a series of algorithms.

Technology is moving so fast these days, that we now have chatbots that can convincingly mimic human conversations, that can mimic our voice and can realistically produce ‘art’ - or can they?

On today’s show we’re going to be exploring that idea, and how these algorithms might potentially affect the income and hard-work of the ‘traditional’ artist.

Joining us a little later on the phone is Alan Quah - he’s a Malaysian Comic Artist whose works have graced the pages of Marvel, DC Comics, and Lucasfilm to name just a few and Lai Theng Seng from Studio Behind 90s, an illustrator who worked with Cuckoo and AirAsia, (he did one for Netflix as well) among many big brands.

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FFF Media is an independent social news network, focused on creating video and graphic content. Ariel Koh, the brainchild of FFF Media shares her views on the future of content creation.

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