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The recent rumours swirling around the news of Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner’s divorce have revolved around how Turner hasn’t been present in her children’s lives in recent months, despite that she has been away filming, and that has sparked a conversation about the double standard in parenting that we still see today among working parents. Here to dive more into this and how it also impacts the well-being of both parents - and children - in a family are Najmin Tajudin from makchic and Lavender Tan, a clinical psychologist. 

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Bukit Bintang is set to host the International Sports & Fitness Festival in conjunction with the World Day of the Deaf (24th September) and also in conjunction with Malaysia Day festivities. Under the umbrella of the AFT International Sports and Fitness Festival, the sporting extravaganza aims to bring together over 100 hours of Sports, Fitness and Wellness experiences under one virtual roof across the region, partnering with city councils, tourism bodies, business retailers including small business vendors and community sporting groups with a focus on promoting racial harmony and promoting inclusion in sports. We find out more from Nikki Yeo and Jasmine Low, co-founders of GoInternationalGroup.com who are the brains behind this mammoth multi-city undertaking, and Ng Yih Chen, the Chairman of the BBKLCC Tourism Association who is helping to unite malls in the area for Move8 VR Walk-a-Hunt.

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For more than 10 years, Anton Protsiuk, who’s the programs coordinator at Wikimedia Ukraine, has been focused on decolonising Ukrainian knowledge and preserving languages. He joins us in today’s episode to discuss his work and how the Russian invasion of Ukraine prompted a wide reevaluation of the Ukrainian cultural legacy. 

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Social workers may not be a very visible profession but they work to protect and help some of the most vulnerable in our society. But as we continue to hear reports that we simply don’t have enough social workers, what are we doing to also protect them and the work that they do? 

In conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the formation of the Malaysian Association of Social Workers, we speak to Dr Teoh Ai Hua, president of MASW and Saskia Blume, chief of child protection at UNICEF Malaysia, on why a Social Work Profession Bill is needed. 

To find out more about the joint UNICEF-MASW campaign, “Heroes Among Us”, click here.

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Apa Kata Wanita Orang Asli or Amplifying the Voices of Young Orang Asli Women is a collaboration between the Freedom Film Network and young Orang Asli women from various tribes in Malaysia, which aims to amplify their voices through storytelling. Through the content they create, they hope to articulate their lived realities, and demand for equality and rights for their community in Malaysia. We speak to Eliana a/p Tan Beng Hui, Rosdila Ngah Roslan and Yaliyana Lenab, who are all content creators with the collective, to find out more about this collaboration, and to discuss why is it important for the voices of Orang Asli youths to be heard, especially those of young women.

The Refugee Festival 2023 will be taking place at the Kuala Lumpur Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall (KLSCAH) from the 8th - 10th of September. The event was founded by investigative journalist Mahi Ramakrishnan and was first held at Black Box Publika in 2016. The event has since grown into an annual affair with even more participation from various refugee community leaders.

We discuss The Refugee Festival with Hasan Al-Akraa, a Syrian refugee, founder of Refugee Emergency Fund and Mohammad Ali Safdari, a refugee from Afghanistan and a musician. 

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Have you ever had that one famous movie star, athlete or public figure that you really admired? Perhaps you’ve even had a “celebrity crush” or feel like they could be your friend? Most of us have probably formed at least one parasocial relationship in our lives, and with social media, these individuals feel more relatable than ever. Why do we form such attachments to people we don’t know? And when does that behaviour border on unhealthy, or even dangerous? Joining us on the show to share more about the psychology behind this is clinical psychologist Dr Joel Low. 

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We're set to celebrate 66 years of Merdeka on Thursday, and as the nation commemorates, we too want to remember the historic occasion, by paying tribute to our Bapa Merdeka, Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-Haj, one of the prime architects of our Federal Constitution, and our Prime Minister from 1957 until September 1970, who was instrumental in gaining Malaya's freedom and sovereignty without war or bloodshed. Joining us to do this are two trustees from Yayasan Tunku Abdul Rahman (YTAR),  Datin Sri Sharifah Menyalara Hussein (CEO and Founding Director of M&C Saatchi Malaysia) and Emeritus Professor Datuk Dr Hj Shad Saleem Faruqi (Holder of the Tunku Abdul Rahman Chair, University of Malaya). While we reminisce about the past and our country's journey to independence, we also look forward to the future, and wonder what it holds for our nation.

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If you’re a fan of Masterchef Australia, the name Adam Liaw would be a very familiar one to you. Adam took home the title in the second season of the series back in 2010, and he has since gone on to publish cookbooks and host TV shows, establishing himself as a household name in Australia, and arguably in some households here as well. The Malaysian-born Australian cook, author, and TV presenter joins us in the studio to share more about how his heritage has influenced his career in food and whether he plans to film a series in Malaysia one day. 

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The Kuala Lumpur and Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall (KLSCAH) is running a human rights exhibition called FREEDOM. This exhibition will be divided into various sections, allowing visitors to visualise and understand the concept of freedom, to revisit the path that leads to where we are at today, and to reflect on what freedom is, and what it means to us.

We speak to some of the brains behind the exhibition. 

Event details are as follows:

Date: 23rd-31st August 2023

Time: 9am-6pm

Venue: Kong Choi Exhibition Room (First Floor of KLSCAH)