Morning Brief

Following the surprise power outage which for some areas lasted more than 2 hours in the middle of the day we speak to Shukreen Ma, Head Group Corporate Communications, Tenaga Nasional Berhad and what transpired and how can we avoid this situation from repeating itself

With the poultry industry being a victim of government’s several policy u-turns and conflicting messages, we ask Ong Kian Ming how should the government assist local chicken farmers in the short and long term

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Its a tale of two halves for the tech sector with names like Amazon and Apple reporting better than expected numbers while chip makers, Intel and Qualcomm disappointing the street. Daniel Ives, Managing Director of Wedbush Securities helps us make sense of the results and who will be winners in 2022 despite the economic slowdown.

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With Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri confirming that UMNO has decided not to extend the memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Pakatan Harapan, is GE15 upon us? Dr Oh Ei Sun, Senior Fellow, Singapore Institute of International Affairs gives his perspective

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With the poultry industry being a victim of government’s several policy u-turns and conflicting messages, we ask Ong Kian Ming how should the government assist local chicken farmers in the short and long term

Its a tale of two halves for the tech sector with names like Amazon and Apple reporting better than expected numbers while chip makers, Intel and Qualcomm disappointing the street. Daniel Ives, Managing Director of Wedbush Securities helps us make sense of the results and who will be winners in 2022 despite the economic slowdown.

With Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri confirming that UMNO has decided not to extend the memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Pakatan Harapan, is GE15 upon us? Dr Oh Ei Sun, Senior Fellow, Singapore Institute of International Affairs gives his perspective

Yesterday, the Dewan Rakyat passed the Anti-Party Hopping Bill with a two-thirds majority, bringing to fruition a long-sought after political reform in the wake of the Sheraton Move. How much impact will this have on voter confidence as we head into GE15? We get reactions from Danesh Prakash Chacko of Tindak Malaysia.

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Myanmar's military government which overthrew the elected civilian government in a coup d'état on Feb 1, 2021, remains in power today and is doing all it can to quash opposition. This includes executing 4 democracy activists recently. What does Asean have to say about all this clear violations of human rights? Thomas Daniel, a Senior Fellow at ISIS Malaysia talks to us about the intricacies of navigating regional democracy.

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The annual Federal Budget gets a lot of attention from the public and stakeholders, but the same scrutiny isn't paid to state budgets. We speak to Alissa Rode of IDEAS to discuss the importance of state budget transparency and how the state governments stack up against each other.

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