Pressing Matters

In today's Pressing Matters, Philip See speaks to Ushar Daniele a broadcast journalist based in Malaysia to unpack the progress or lack of from the recent United Nations Climate Change Conference or Conference of the Parties or in short COP28. We get a sense of what was achieved and the work still required to meet the 1.5 Celcius goal set out by the Paris Agreement in 2015.

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Medicine San Frontier (MSF), or Doctors Without Borders regional director Paul Brockman gives us a sense of the situation of the Rohingya crisis taking place, and talks about the motivation behind their recently produced short animation film titled “Lost at Sea” about a story that reflects the atrocities faced by the Rohingya as they seek refuge.

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Today's all about unpacking the two of the biggest stories that took place this year in the crypto industry. Philip See speaks to Sam Reynolds, Journalist at Coin Desk, as he helps us unpack the imposition of FTX and the downfall of the two major dominant figures of the crypto industry names, Sam Bankman Fried, short for SBF from FTX and Chan Peng Zhou, short for CZ from Binance. Sam helps us contrast and compare the journey of these two very consequential leaders.

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On Pressing Matters, Philip See speaks to Dr Benjamin Loh, senior lecturer at the School of Media and Communication at Taylor's University on the state of our media and the effectiveness of the government's plan and proposed media council.

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On Pressing Matters, Philip See speaks to Nat Tan Zhai Yun, editor of ESG at the Edge Malaysia. We get a sense from her on how ESG, short for Environmental Social and Governance is covered by journalists in Malaysia and whether Corporate Malaysia risks being accused of greenwashing.

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On today’s Pressing Matters, Philip See speaks to Dr. James Gomez, Regional Director at Asia Centre as we reflect how national and global citizenry can be embedded within Malaysia’s youth. This issue comes to the fore in view of how our public education has decided to embrace social causes such as the Solidarity with Palestine week. We get James’s perspective and views on whether these efforts really help us reinforce the ideals of what it takes to be a global citizen in our next generation.

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On Pressing Matters, Philip See speaks to Dr Abdul Rahman Yaacob, Research Fellow in the Southeast Asia Program at the Lowy Institute, on how ASEAN governments have been responding to the Israeli-Palestine conflict taking place in Gaza. They will be discussing the impact on domestic politics and the repercussions it may have on other conflicts within ASEAN as well as whether there will be a shift in strategic alliances between China and the West.

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Philip See speaks to Khalil Majeed, Co-Founder & Project Director of Faqcheck, as we have a broad ranging conversation about disinformation. Khalil helps us unpack how he is building a mini-army of fact-checkers and we ask him how easy is it to get to the root cause of disinformation.

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Philip See speaks to Sha Hua, a reporter from The Wall Street Journal's Singapore bureau as we have a discussion with her on her recent article titled ‘A nation goes for dominance – of World’s stinkiest fruit’. We get her insights into the Chinese Love affair of the Durian and we ask her the lengths the Chinese have gone to to meet their growing appetite for this thorny fruit.

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We speak to Nazri Noran, Chief Executive Officer, Media Prima Audio to get a sneak peek of Media Prima’s strategy on its radio business. We ask him whether former Minister Khairy Jamaluddin’s gig as guest DJ in Hot FM has helped the station and whether his radio presenters feel threatened by the presence of Aina Sabrina, Malaysia’s first AI Radio DJ.

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