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With everyone feeling the squeeze from the extended lockdown on their wallets, the big players in the fitness industry have started to report higher membership cancellations, as people reassess where and what they spend their money on. But some gyms are proving to weather this storm better than others. Noel Chelliah, Chief Exercise Officer at DailyMuscle, which provides group fitness classes and semi-private training with a strong emphasis on community building, talks to us about the gym's shift to the online sphere.

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One entity that’s working really hard to ensure that the repercussions for SMEs from the MCO are minimal, is SME Corp Malaysia. SME Corp is the central coordinating agency under the government that coordinates the implementation of development programmes for SMEs, provides business advisory services to them and acts as the central point of reference for research and data dissemination on SMEs and entrepreneurs. CEO of SME Corp, Azmi Said joins us on Voice of SMEs today. 

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KidZania Kuala Lumpur is an interactive learning edutainment theme park for kids to role-playing adult activities and one could imagine even after post-MCO, it would be pretty difficult for them to get back to any sort of previous norm. We spoke to Shahrul Nizar, the General Manager or Mayor at KidZania.

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Tanamera is an all natural, plant based health and beauty product range, inspired by remedies and herbs of Malaysia tradition. Mohamad Faisal Ahmad Fadzil, the Managing Director of Tanamera Tropical Spa has been a guest on our shows a couple of times and also a guest speaker on a few of our events. Faisal is one who truly embraces the local spirit and tradition in his business. We figured it would be good time to chat him up on how he’s been dealing with the current situation.

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Leverage Lab's Jeevan Sahadevan shares manoeuvres in today's challenging business scene together with his clients, Dr Fauziah Mohd Yunus (Klinik Pergigian Fauziah) and Shafiqah Shafie & Iylia Fahmi (pinkboxcereal.com). Discussing everything from cash flow, leadership, marketing tactics to pivoting strategies; get insights on what you can do now and when MCO ends.

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Food delivery services have been in the news a lot lately, worldwide. Whilst the global economy slows down, the men and women on motorbikes get what food we want to us fast. But at what cost? We manage to speak with Sayantan Das about the current business model of foodpanda, and what's going to happen when Ramadan gets thrown into that mix.

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The Ramadan season is just a few days away and while there’s been a lot of conversation about the bazaars and balik kampung activities, a big part of Ramadan is also heading out to the mosque for prayers and practising their faith. But as we all know, the MCO and COVID-19 pandemic has changed this year's Ramadan drastically.

This is again where technology plays a huge role in helping people to stay connected. Muslim Pro is the number one Islamic app globally on the Apple App Store and Google Play with over 80 million users. This time of the year is typically the start of busyness for them. But now with the pandemic, they’re capitalising on the surge of users.

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According to Unesco, the COVID-19 pandemic has had an unprecedented impact on the education sector around the world with 138 countries forced to close schools and universities. This has affected 1.37 billion children and youth - or nearly 80% of the world’s student population. Going online doesn’t mean this solves the problem because online education comes with a whole different set of external challenges like connectivity as well as internal investments that need to be made as well. But one education group that has been toying with online and offline, a dual learning approach is Sunway Education Group.

Dr Elizabeth Lee, the CEO of Sunway Education Group came on the show to tell us more. 

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These are unprecedented times for those handling HR. In less than a month, Human Resource leads have had to quickly shift focus from managing the safety of employees in the workplace to remotely managing new realities of pay cuts and retrenchments for business survival. We speak with HR specialists MyWave Sdn Bhd about solutions to the challenges being faced by HR leads today and get some insights into what the world of work could look like, when we eventually go back to work.

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EPIC Homes builds houses for the Orang Asli community. COVID-19 has halted those plans for the time-being, but that doesn’t mean the company is backing down. With the COVID-19 Alliance for Orang Asli, EPIC continues to aid their community with donations, food, and supplies - to ensure that the Orang Asli are safe and well-stocked during this time. We speak to John-Son Oei, Founder and CEO of EPIC Homes, about shifting gears, gathering data about donation drives, as well as plans for EPIC in the near future. 

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