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CV entries need not always be entirely corporate or academic; perhaps your hours logged on Call of Duty, Fortnite, or Minecraft could have also given you many skills to add to your resumé.

 Like the process wasn’t painful enough. No thanks to Covid-19, annual performance reviews are now happening online. But how do you evaluate employees following such a challenging year? And how do you do this while working from home? Is it possible to go beyond performance to evaluate potential? Founder and Principal Consultant at Thread Advisory, Claudia Cadena walks us through the steps.

With digital transformation leapfrogging due to the pandemic, data analytics is more important than ever. But data itself isn’t a one-size-fits-all solution. InsightzClub, for instance, specializes in real-time behavioral and passive data, providing clients with valuable insights into the changing nature of consumer behavior. We speak to Mritunjay Kumar, co-founder and CEO of InsightzClub, about the ways his startup is engaging with big-name clients, as well as some interesting trends that have cropped up over the last couple of years. 

CPO prices have breached RM4000/tonne recently on the back of low palm oil inventories and bad weather conditions in South America impacting the supply of the key substitute oil, soybean. But is this rally sustainable and which planter stands to benefit? Alvin Tai, Soft Commodity Analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence, gives us his views.

Having built a regional used-car selling platform before moving into direct-to-consumer sales, Eric Cheng and his team at Carsome are now contemplating a potential flotation on a foreign exchange.

Dr Lau Cher Han, Chief Data Scientist at LEAD, briefs us on the features and efficacy of Malaysia's contact tracing app and the opportunities that could be tapped further.

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Following his election as US President, Joe Biden and his envoys are meeting Japan, India and Australia as members of an anti-China alliance known as the “Quad”, before engaging with top Chinese diplomats in Alaska at the highest-level face-to-face talks between the two sides since Biden took office.

Dr Adrian Ang, Research Fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, discusses what's at stake.

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Tan Hai Hsin, Managing Director of Retail Group Malaysia, dissects January retail sales data and offers a deeper dive into what many expect will be a recovery year for this much-beleaguered sector.

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Joe Quinlan from the US Trust-BofA Private Wealth Management dissects the recent US equities rally, which sectors are expected to continue to shine and whether he expects the stimulus checks to trickle down to markets.

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.

3:16 : Will COVID-19 be a boon or a bane to office-sharing spaces?

9:58 : Why has the pandemic affected working mothers disproportionately?

17:01 : International headlines

23:00 : Local headlines

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