Pressing Matters

On Pressing Matters, Philip See speaks to Cliff Lim, Director of Risk & Compliance at Dow Jones to get a sense of how financial crimes have evolved in the region and whether we learnt the lessons from 1MDB. Cliff will also try to connect the dots if the recent unearthing of corruption scandals in Singapore could have been aided by improved compliance following the 1MDB saga.

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Philip See speaks to Kris Cheng, a journalist based in the UK, who used to work for Hong Kong Freedom Press and now works for Voice of America. They discuss the level of freedom of the press in Hong Kong and the difference in coverage between a journalist based in and away from Hong Kong.

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We speak to Angela Christian-Wilkes, researcher from Deakin University about the press coverage of the recently concluded Women’s World cup and how the beautiful game has begun taking on a broad range of social issues.

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For Pressing Matters, Philip See speaks to Simon Huang, journalist and Chief Analyst from Tech in Asia as he helps us unpack how the big ASEAN unicorns, Grab, SEA and Goto,  have performed so far this year and whether the next generation of unicorns will be difficult to emerge as the era of cheap money is over.

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For Pressing Matters, we speak to Malek Ali Founder of BFM Media, with 15 questions about BFM. We trace the ups and downs of the station and ask him how the station has evolved and what his hopes for the future are for the next 15 years.

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Since the military ousted the democratically elected government in Myanmar in February 2021, press freedom in that country has been shoved down the sewers, forcing many journalists, both local and international to exit the country. Sonny Swe the founder of Frontier Myanmar, now operates from just across the border, in northern Thailand, to provide its readers with balanced, in-depth reporting and insights from the ground to help make sense of what’s happening in the country.

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Ibrahim Sani and Luqman Hariz, anchors of Astro Awani and hosts of the Tiber podcast join a discussion on the evolving role of the new room following the latest report from the Reuters - Oxford Institute for the Study of Journalism about the growing role of Digital influencers in breaking and shaping news.

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Philip See speaks to Norman Goh, a journalist from Nikkei Asia, about the outcome of the recently concluded state elections. He recounts the campaign and reflects on the tensions that took place throughout the day. So what's next? When the dust settles, what are the lessons and post mortem of this pivotal vote?

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On Pressing Matters, our guests are no strangers in Malaysia’s media industry as Philip See gets into conversation with Datuk Ahirudin bin Attan aka Rocky Bru and Terence Fernandez about their latest news portal the Scoop as we have a wide ranging conversation and understand their motivations behind the birth of this portal. Phil tries to get the Scoop on the Scoop.

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Bradley C. Freeman, Media Professor & Associate Dean at Sunway University debates with us on whether tech giants should pay online news and local media content. Will Malaysia follow the pathway taken by Australia and Canada?

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