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Market research reports have shown that offline retail will be the dominant channel of retail sales in the foreseeable future. But as mall operators struggle to track daily sales or provide retail rebates and tenant support in response to Covid-19 events and lockdowns, business decisions only prove harder to navigate on a daily basis. Jun Ting, Chief Executive Officer, Aimazing, shares about his company's solution that could possibly improve the brick and mortar retail scene, as well as aid both tenants and landlords. 

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Lee Kian Soon, CEO, Astral Asset Management, discusses where the value plays are amid the jitters around China with the regulatory clampdown and Evergrande contagion fears.

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Your next plate of chicken could be more expensive as chicken prices are set to increase, driven by the higher cost of raw materials, such as corn and soybean — the main ingredients in poultry feed. The Breakfast Huddle's Elliott Danker and Bharati Jagdish chat with Song Seng Wun, Economist, CIMB Private Bank about how will this increase impact F&B establishments that rely on chicken. 

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Power Play Ep 5: Politics now hampering US-China climate cooperation

10:03 mins

Synopsis: On the third Friday of every month, The Straits Times examines various facets of the US-China rivalry and its implications for Asia. 

Join Charissa Yong and Danson Cheong - ST’s US and China correspondents respectively based in Washington DC and Beijing - as they chat about the following:

1. US' special presidential envoy for climate John Kerry facing icy reception at Tianjin (0:32)

2. China's mistrust due to America over-promising and under-delivering (2:37)
3. Why US-China climate cooperation is like an 'oasis' surrounded by a desert (5:40)
4. Cooperation seems unlikely at the UN COP26 climate summit in November (7:17)
5. China's plans to build another 200 gigawatts of coal power would affect the world's climate efforts severely (8:20) 

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Edited by: Dan Koh

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Sani Hamid, Director of Wealth Management, Financial Alliance, discusses how China is cracking down on the "seven deadly sins" and reports about Temasek and GIC planning to invest more in the local stock markets.

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As part of a pilot travel scheme to allow travelers vaccinated against Covid-19 to enter Singapore without quarantine, many saw the first flight under the Vaccinated Travel Lane (VTL) to Frankfurt, Germany took off recently. Aaron Wong, Founder, The MileLion shares more about his experiences as one of the first few people to fly out of the country and potential problems with the SG-Germany VTL. 

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