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In this week's Stocks to Watch, we're joined by Shekhar Jaiswal, Senior Equity Head & Team Head (Singapore), RHB Investment Bank to discuss how
transport operator Comfortdelgro can pass on higher costs to run its business and how ST Engineering's well diversified business has helped the company in the current volatile market environment. 

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In this morning's The Breakfast Brief, we discuss the factors leading to shares of Netflix closing down more than 35 percent overnight and Tesla's first-quarter profit and sales topping estimates, sending shares up post-market 6 percent. 

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Synopsis: The Straits Times analyses South-east Asia's top news developments in this weekly podcast.

Dr. Oh Ei Sun, senior fellow at Singapore Institute of International Affairs, stands in for The Straits Times' regional correspondent Leslie Lopez who is on leave, and he chats with Money FM 89.3's Elliot Danker.

In this week's episode, we discuss the latest news of troubled Sri Lanka making a request to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for Rapid Financing Instrument (RFI) support to mitigate supply chain issues.

Taiwan records a spike in Covid-19 cases recently and the Indonesian government's latest survey reveals that almost all Indonesians have developed antibodies against Covid-19.

Produced by: Leslie Lopez ([email protected]) & Money FM's Breakfast Huddle team

Edited by: Nadhirah Kamarudin

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Recycling, which was once promoted as the silver bullet to fighting pollution and climate change has unfortunately got itself a bad rep. Here in Singapore, according to statistics released by The National Environment Agency (NEA), our domestic recycling rate remained at 13 percent in 2021, unchanged from 2020's figures, a 10-year low. So what are we missing here, how did recycling earn itself a bad reputation? Danny Foong, General Manager, High Performance Polymers, Arkema shares his views. 

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Singapore was once described by the New York Times as a place ‘so clean that bubble gum is a controlled substance'. The definition of ‘cleanliness’ for most of us must have changed over the last two years due to Covid-19. GERMii will be partnering with SoftBank Robotics to introduce and engineer innovative products and technologies in the field of cleaning and sterilisation. Harold Van Haltren, CEO, GERMii shares his views on the future of cleanliness and how GERMii will be part of it. 

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In this week's episode, we discuss the latest news of troubled Sri Lanka making a request to IMF for Rapid Financing Instrument (RFI) support to mitigate supply chain issues. Taiwan records a spike in Covid-19 cases recently and the Indonesian government's latest survey reveals that almost all Indonesians have developed antibodies against Covid-19.

Dr. Oh Ei Sun, Senior Fellow, Singapore Institute of International Affairs gives us his analysis of those headlines. 

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