Live & Learn

Bukit Gasing State Assemblyman Rajiv Rishyakaran is back for his monthly show to discuss the Selangor Budget 2019.

Young people across the world are refusing to be ignored - they are a generation determined to build something better, bolder and new. In conjunction with Universal Children's Day, we speak to two young activists in their own right, Ain Fatinismatulain and Veshalini Naidu, who are working to make a difference in their own ways.

For this episode of Family Time, our fortnightly series done in collaboration with Happy Go KL, we discuss how to best support children who may need additional support or have special educational needs, and what options are available to them, here in Kuala Lumpur. Joining us to discuss this is Rosa Maria Galvañ, a contributor with Happy Go KL.

Every year, QS Enrolment Solutions - a unit of the company that publishes the QS World University Rankings - publishes an International Students Survey. The survey examines the preferences of students who have expressed an interest to pursue higher education outside their home country. What do students want and how are universities catering to these considerations? QSES managing director Andy Nicol explains the findings from this year’s survey.

Vizla welcomes reigning Miss Universe Malaysia 2018 Jane Teoh to discuss the awareness campaign on cyberbullying - #DareToShout. Jane founded the campaign based on her personal experience of cyberbullying, and wanted to use the Miss Universe Malaysia platform to highlight the importance of self-worth and not seeking validation from the virtual world.

The YWCA's Vocational Training Opportunity Centre (VTOC) was initiated to provide skills training for underprivileged young women and girls from economically disadvantaged families. Among others, the aim of the programme was to enable the participants to achieve self-determination and self-reliance in all areas of life. Set the celebrate it's 20th anniversary this November, we find out what the programme has achieved over the past two decades, and plans moving forward, from Joanne Yeoh, the President of the YWCA KL.

Before Ali Raza took on a regional leadership position for a private education group in Southeast Asia, he was advising former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif on education reform in Islamabad. He tells us the story of how an engineer end up in the education sector, the challenges of implementing large scale reform in a politically charged portfolio, as well as how the country that produced Malala Yousafzai is also a country where only 58% of the population is literate.

The National Unity Consultative Council recently released its findings and recommendations for the government. Datuk Dr Denison Jayasooria, principal research fellow at the Institute of Ethnic Studies, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, explains the report’s content.

A special cabinet-level steering committee has been formed to look into Malaysia Agreement 1963 in order to restore Sabah’s and Sarawak’s equal partner status in the federation. Professor James Chin, Director at the Asia Institute Tasmania, University of Tasmania, help unpack what this portends for East Malaysian politics and how it will shape Putrajaya’s interaction with Kota Kinabalu and Kuching.

We catch up with Tan Heang Lee, Advocacy and Communications Officer with the Women's Aid Organisation, to discuss laws on violence against women that we would like the government to reform. We will discuss reforms on laws governing rape, stalking and domestic violence in particular.