With the effects of the US-China trade war being felt across the region, we turn the focus onto Penang, with its heavy reliance on the manufacturing sector. InvestPenang CEO Dato' Loo Lee Lian tells us more.

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Paramount Group has expanded from a property player to an education provider, owning brands like KDU and REAL. They are again diversifying into new businesses, focusing their resources on property, co-working spaces and technology.

We speak to Jeffrey Chew, Group CEO, Paramount Corporation Bhd to discuss their focus from education to property and other businesses.

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Terence Loh, CEO and Co-Founder, Novena Global Lifecare Group,  tells the interesting story of Novena Global Lifecare Group growth trajectory to provide low-cost aesthetic medical care. In an age of Instagramming, are we getting too vain or is this a confidence-boosting necessity? We also discuss the company's plans to list at attractive valuations.

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The financial services sector faces an increasing threat of disruption, with the rise of mobile wallets, e-payment services and even changing spending patterns among a wired generation. Amex regional Vice President of Global Network Services Sanjiv Malhotra tells us more.

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In conjunction with International Women's Day 2019, Deputy Women, Family and Community Development Minister Hannah Yeoh speaks with us on a raft of issues including the Ministry's proposed sexual harassment bill, child marriage, and sex education.

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Pharamaniaga is confident of getting its concession to supply medicine to the government renewed. We delve deeper into whether such concessions work in lessening the nation's healthcare burden. We also talk about how Pharmaniaga will arrest the profitability decline of the past years.

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Honeywell is a multinational company that support businesses to deliver solutions in industries such as aerospace, oil and gas, automation and process controls. The decision to locate their headquarters in Kuala Lumpur has led to the Employment of around 1500 workers as well as the first multinational company to have joined Malaysia's new principal hub initiative back in 2017.

We speak to Briand on their operation in the new Malaysian landscape, the growing tension in the South China Sea, the development on IoT as well the flight tracking abilities related to the missing MH370.

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Green Packet has been loss-making in all but one year in the last decade, with the net loss widening further in financial year ending 2018. However CEO Kay Tan believes that the investments made towards transforming the business into a digital services provider will bear fruit in 2019. He sets out their path to profitability on the Breakfast Grille and shares the company’s innovative plans for future growth.

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The Malaysian Competition Commission (MyCC) was created to ensure free and fair competition in commercial markets for the benefit of consumer welfare, efficiency of enterprises and the development of the economy as a whole.

Joyce Goh speaks to MyCC CEO Iskandar Ismail on the challenges the watchdog faces in carrying out its mandate

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Human Resources Minister M. Kula Segaran discusses a plethora of local human capital issues including minimum wage, foreign and illegal workers, youth unemployment, vocational training, overseas Malaysian talent and the plight of the Indian community.

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