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Elevators in optimal working condition are vital to the productivity of businesses due to the constant flow of movement in and out of buildings. And since APAC is already home to 40 percent of the world’s lifts, and is still growing rapidly, WeMaintain sees an opportunity to demonstrate their value. Benoit Dupont, Co-Founder & CEO, WeMaintain shares more about the PropTech company and how they can aid building operators and maintenance teams.

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Regional Round-up Ep 14: Thailand plans to reopen by January 2022

09:10 mins

Synopsis: Every week, The Straits Times analyses South-east Asia's top news developments.

The Straits Times' regional correspondent Leslie Lopez chats with Money FM's Elliott Danker about the following points:

1. Current protest situation in Myanmar and peace deal situation (1:45) 
2. Situation after Myanmar's National Unity Government (NUG) declares a state of emergency (2:53)
3. Outside government views on the China-Myanmar corridor (4:36)
4. Thailand's plans to fully reopen without quarantine by January 2022 (5:41)

Produced by: The Breakfast Huddle, Money FM 89.3, Hadyu Rahim

Edited by: Dan Koh

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China's crackdown on overextended property developers has led to a surge in loan losses. Abhilash Narayan, Senior Investment Strategist, Standard Chartered Private Bank discuss the contagion effects as well as El Salvador's rocky start to making Bitcoin legal tender.

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A recently launched research report by ACCA and PwC titled ‘Finance functions: seizing the opportunity’ with PwC, provided insights on whether the pandemic has created opportunities for finance roles. Joseph Alfred, Head of Policy – Singapore, Australia, NZ and Oceania, Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) shares more about the findings and opportunities that the finance function can help leverage on, in a post-pandemic world.

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Initially launched at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival as a movie streaming platform for indie and international films, an interesting discovery led FilmDoo to branch into online language education. Weerada Sucharitkul, CEO & Co-founder, FilmDoo and FilmDoo Academy shares how one's pick of world's cinema can be an interactive video lesson for language learning on FilmDoo and how they are differentiating itself from traditional language schools and other language-based edtech. 

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Leslie Lopez, Regional Correspondent, Straits Times gives an analysis of Myanmar's National Unity Government (NUG) call for a revolt against the junta, how this threatens the China-Myanmar corridor, Thailand's plan for a full reopening without quarantine by January, and more. 

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Speaking of Asia Ep 5: Could a China Evergrande collapse cause an Asian crisis?

12:21 mins

Synopsis: Join The Straits Times's associate editor Ravi Velloor, in this series of podcasts as he distils his experience from four decades of covering the continent.

In this fifth episode, he discusses the debt worries of China Evergrande, the world's most indebted real estate company, and asks whether there could be a regional economic crisis should this firm collapse, just as the failure of Hanbo Steel in Korea in January 1997 was a forerunner to the Asian Economic Crisis.

1. The collapse of Hanbo Steel in South Korea in 1997 (1:30)
2. Red flagging Evergrande's problems and the risks of putting all eggs in a China basket (3:20)
3. Soros warns that an Evergrande collapse could cause a crash (4:55)
4. Why fallout from Evergrande can be handled and need not be cataclysmic (6:50)
5. Other significant developments that could hurt sentiment if combined with an Evergrande collapse (8:05)
6. A triple whammy may just be too much excitement (11:10)

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Produced by: Ravi Velloor ([email protected]), Hadyu Rahim and Fa'izah Sani

Edited by: Hadyu Rahim & Fa'izah Sani

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China Perspective Ep 12: China's economic strategies and plans for climate change

11:30 mins

Synopsis: Every week, The Straits Times analyses the latest developments in China.

Dr Oh Ei Sun, Senior Fellow at Singapore Institute of International Affairs, stands in for The Straits Times' China bureau chief Tan Dawn Wei, who is on leave. He chats with Money FM 89.3's Elliott Danker about the following points:

1. How will President Xi JinPing's mission to narrow the wealth gap affect the rich? (1:35)
2. Benefits in China's plans to set up a third stock exchange in Beijing (3:00)
3. Agenda of Britain's senior climate change official Alok Sharma in Tianjin (5:09)
4. Sinopharm's newly-developed Covid-19 vaccine (6:28)
5. China overtaking the US to be the world's largest economy by 2031 (7:53)

Produced by: The Breakfast Huddle, Money FM 89.3 & Fa'izah Sani

Edited by: Dan Koh

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Alvin Chow, CEO of Dr Wealth talks about what to look out for when investing in special purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs, on the back of the SGX's approval for listing such blank-cheque companies that could give retail investors here even easier access to them.

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Being recognised by Gartner signifies that Cyclone Robotics has become a world-leading RPA provider, especially after the company was shortlisted as the only Chinese RPA provider and recognised as the 'Outstanding Performer' by Forrester Wave, another global leading independent research firm in March this year. Dr Jia Kui, Chief Product Officer, Cyclone Robotics shares more about Gartner’s 2021 RPA Magic Quadrant list and how RPA contributes to Singapore’s vision as a Smart Nation.

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