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Edelman has been tracking trust amongst the segments of business, government, NGOs, and the media since 2012 in Malaysia. The 2017 Edelman Trust Barometer revealed that trust is actually in crisis at the moment. Here to share with us on this study of trust is Managing Director of Edelman, Robert Kay.

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On February 20th-22nd, Endeavor Malaysia hosted the 69th International Selection Panel (ISP) for the first time in Kuala Lumpur. The ISP KL brought together entrepreneur candidates and business leaders from 15 countries, selecting 18 high-impact entrepreneurs. Aaron Patel, founder of iHandal was one out of two Malaysian companies that were selected at the ISP joins us and shares his experience.

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This is the continuation from last week’s conversation on the relationship between food and IP law. We’ve covered trade secrets, copyright and trademark laws previously. This round, we’re looking into patent protection and also industrial design protection.

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The easiest way to protect your recipes is to make it a trade secret. But Lim Eng Leong, Trademark Manager at Henry Goh & Co thinks otherwise. He believes that there are other means of protecting your food under the Intellectual Property umbrella. We will go through the elements of IP law which includes copyright, trademark and patent protection.

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On average, Malaysian SMEs take 46 days to pay back their debts. Kesh Singh, founder of Kollect Systems shares the current dire situation especially with the reinforcement of GST Act and the solutions available to automate debt recovery for businesses.

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From a small neighborhood flower shop founded in 1979, Alissar is now one of Middle East and North Africa region’s leading floral solutions providers. Charif Mzayek took over his father’s business and transformed the entire industry by advising cut flower growers on advanced eco-friendly technologies. The Endeavor Entrepreneur in Jordan shares his plans to expand into Southeast Asia with a new B2B platform, floranow.com.

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If you doubt it, chances are you can’t afford it. According to statistics from Malaysia Department of Insolvency, on average of 60 people declared bankrupt everyday and 26% of it are car loan defaulters. Did you know that you can be declared as bankrupt without even you knowing it with debts as low as RM30,000? As severe as this sounds, there aren’t enough information in the world wide web. Folks from NTC Insolvency talks about how one should react and navigate after the declaration of bankruptcy and also possibilities of being discharged.

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It’s common today to hear about lifestyle diseases such as inactivity. We spent hours slouching over our desks with bad posture for hours everyday. Do you think employers should take into consideration of a Workplace Wellness Program? Are we at a stage where it’s becoming an issue to the public health? Anwar Anis, CEO at Pantai Hospital KL and Wong Wen Yin, Head of Dietetic Unit at Pantai shares their award-winning worksite health promotion and intervention program for their employees.

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One of P&G Malaysia’s secret in retaining talent is by snapping up bright students before they graduate and plans vigorously their career pipeline within the organisation. The average age of the company in Malaysia stands at 28 years old. Now, that’s a lot of young people in the company. The CEO of P&G Malaysia, Brunei & Singapore, Ong Yuh Hwang shares how the corporate giant that manages 110,000 employees worldwide is keeping their staff fulfilled.

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What does HRDF have in store to make sure Malaysia’s workforce is ready for the Industrial revolution 4.0? Dato CM Vignaesvaran, CEO at HRDF lays out the plans for 2017.

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