Morning Brief

Siti Aiysyah Tumin from Khazanah Research Institute (KRI) unpacks for us the recent SOCSO scheme for informal care workers and discusses what improvements can be made to broaden social protection coverage for those in the informal care economy.

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We speak to Gary Ng from Natixis about the recent China's private debt implosion with Huarong and Evergrande and will the Chinese Government bail out these corporates that are potentially too big to fail.

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The Yang di-Pertuan Agong is scheduled to officiate the opening of the 14th Parliament session later today. This will be the first session under the government led by new Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob. Dr Hamidin Abdul Hamid, Research Fellow at Ilham Centre tells us what to expect from this session and will this MOU that is being signed by the government and PH hold?

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Siti Aiysyah Tumin from Khazanah Research Institute (KRI) unpacks for us the recent SOCSO scheme for informal care workers and discusses what improvements can be made to broaden social protection coverage for those in the informal care economy.

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We speak to Gary Ng from Natixis about the recent China's private debt implosion with Huarong and Evergrande and will the Chinese Government bail out these corporates that are potentially too big to fail.

Image credit: Pixabay.com

The Global War on Terror was launched in response to the September 11 terror attacks in New York, activating multi-lateral international action and cooperation to counter-terrorism. But have these initiatives had the intended effect? We discuss the lessons that can be drawn from the Global War on Terror two decades post 9/11.

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The MySejahtera app has been improved in terms of user experience with a check-out feature. How else can the app be used and upgraded to improve our pandemic response? Dr. Kelvin Yii, the Member of Parliament of Bandar Kuching weighs in on the conversation including why cases have been rising rapidly in Sarawak despite high vaccination rate.

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At the recent Global Education Conference and Postgraduate Colloquium hosted by UNIRAZAK, Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Aziz the finance minister said that the government has to consider unorthodox economic solutions to respond to extraordinary situations like the pandemic. We deep dive with Professor Geoffrey Williams at Malaysia University of Science and Technology on possible unorthodox prescriptions for Malaysia in the longer-term.

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At the recent Global Education Conference and Postgraduate Colloquium hosted by UNIRAZAK, Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Aziz the finance minister said that the government has to consider unorthodox economic solutions to respond to extraordinary situations like the pandemic. We deep dive with Professor Geoffrey Williams at Malaysia University of Science and Technology on possible unorthodox prescriptions for Malaysia in the longer-term.

Image credit: Abdul Razak Latif / Shutterstock.com

The Global War on Terror was launched in response to the September 11 terror attacks in New York, activating multi-lateral international action and cooperation to counter-terrorism. But have these initiatives had the intended effect? We discuss the lessons that can be drawn from the Global War on Terror two decades post 9/11.

Image credit: Lars Mudler / Pexels.com