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In the age of technology, fewer people are picking up books to read. However, Jacqueline Ng successfully built an alternative book empire with the main mission to make books affordable and accessible for everyone. We chat with her about her passion for books, the challenges she had to overcome, and how she came up with an idea to start this business with her husband, Andrew Yap. 

Communication has proven to be a key priority especially as COVID-19 continues to rage on; but for frontliners especially, direct, clear, and instant two way communication is absolutely essential.  Solomon Lorthu, managing director at the Penang design center and site operations at Motorola Solutions Malaysia talks about the two-way radio, the R&D process for product innovation, and how the company has been handling the effects of the pandemic close to home. 

Aerodyne Group, a Malaysian drone solutions company, has over 400 drone professionals operating in the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAS) service sector and manages over 300,000 infrastructure assets with 110,000 flight operations across 35 countries globally. To build up the drone economy, it has pivoted to data intelligence, integrated solutions and Drone Tech, Data Tech and Digital Transformation. Roshan Kanesan speaks to its founder, Kamarul A Muhamed, about the group's partnerships globally, working with regulators in Southeast Asia, as well as the level of government support and funding adequacy.

According to the World Bank, Malaysia could transition into a high-income economy in the next five years. However, for this to become a reality, the country will have to undertake further reforms. For some insight into what this might entail, we speak with Richard Record, the World Bank's lead economist for Malaysia.

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With travel bans still tightly in place globally, the aviation industry continues the struggle to survive. McKinsey Partner Steve Saxon gives us an update on how airports have been surviving this past year, and how they will need to adapt moving forward.

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Keith Kam speaks to En. Thaib Mustafa, Head of Cybersecurity Products and Services for TM ONE, about cyberattacks and cybersecurity. Discussed are how and why cyberattacks occur, what companies need in order to increase their cybersecurity, and how TM ONE can help.

Ho Siew Kei, Cyber Risk Executive Director of Deloitte Malaysia, answers our questions about cybersecurity, and whether current measures are really up to the mark when it comes to avoiding future data breaches.

Jack Kouzi helps us navigate through the upcoming Grab IPO, the current investment climate and how the Chinese government is clamping down on Alibaba and Tencent.

We get you out of bed, to your first cup of coffee or to your first destination of your day with thought-provoking discussions on ideas, people and events shaping all our lives.

2:30 : Is it worth turning down managerial positions sometimes?

9:28 : Can the younger generation unite around an ideology?

16:06 : International headlines

22:33 : Local headlines

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Poet, recluse, mystery - Emily Dickinson's writing was only discovered after her death, and has been studied for over a century since. With her allusive, unconventional style, singular punctuation, and preoccupation with the themes of death and mortality, her work (and her personal life) has long fascinated readers. In this episode of Bibliography, we talk about the life and work of Emily Dickinson, and try to understand what we can actually learn and understand from a body of work read entirely without its writer to contextualise it.