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Climbing To The Top In Stilettos   Welcome to another episode of 30 minutes with DailyStraits.com. Our guest today is Kuala Lumpur-based Datuk Yasmin Mahmood. Yasmin has a highly distinguished career, spanning three decades, during which time she has worked with various technology giants including Hewlett Packard and Dell. In 2006, she became Microsoft Malaysia’s Managing Director and in...

Welcome to another episode of 30 minutes with DailyStraits.com. Our guest today is Malaysian businessman Datuk Dr Vinod Sekhar who is the Chairman and CEO of PETRA Group, a global conglomerate involved in sustainable technologies, manufacturing, infrastructure, media, entertainment, agriculture, lifestyle, research and philanthropy.  Through his vision and leadership, the PETRA Group applies...

Welcome to another episode of 30 minutes with DailyStraits.com. Our guests today are Canadian authors Kristy Shen and Bryce Leung of the book  'Quit Like A Millionaire.’   Published in 2019, Kristy and Bryce's maiden book has taught many on how one can ditch the rat race and retire early all by investing their earnings in what is known as ETFs or exchange-traded funds.  This couple...

By June Ramli Welcome to another episode of 30 minutes with DailyStraits.com. Our guest today is Tehran-based journalist and travel writer Simin Saghafi. I met Simin several years ago as a reporter during a work to Iran. My first impression of the country was that its people were stunning and that its tourist areas such as Persepolis had a lot to offer. So, our topic today is going to be about tur...

Sydney, March 24: Severe thunderstorms and moderate to heavy rainfall likely for parts of New South Wales Parts of eastern New South Wales, extending into the northern and central inland, can expect widespread rainfall over the coming days as a moist onshore flow interacts with a surface trough and upper-atmospheric low. Localised heavy rainfall is possible, particularly with thunderstorms, which...

Severe Thunderstorms Expected  Sydney, March 23: Severe thunderstorms are expected across New South Wales and may bring widespread moderate rainfall to previously flood-impacted areas in New South Wales, from Wednesday and into the weekend. Thunderstorms are possible for north-eastern New South Wales over the coming days. Localised heavy rain, gusty winds and hail are all possible. With catch...

By June Ramli   Seri Kembangan, March 21: Former Malaysian Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad had held the top job as the nation’s premier not once but twice in his lifetime. But did you know that before him holding the premiership post, Dr Mahathir himself was a very successful physician in Alor Setar, Kedah and according to his Wikipedia page, he was the town’s first Malay doctor with h...

Welcome to another episode with 30 minutes with DailyStraits.com. Today we speak to WadzPay’s Group Head of Market Development for Blockchain Payments – Melcom Copeland. Copeland has over 20 years of customer-centric emerging technology solutions development and operations experience across B2B E-Marketplace, CRM, Gaming, Cryptocurrency, and Fintech sectors. Copeland spent 13-years of his car...

Welcome to another episode of 30 minutes with DailyStraits.com. Our guest today is New Zealand-based, Waiheke Walking Trust Chair, Tessa Shaw . The Waiheke Trust is a charitable organisation that hosts the Waiheke Walking Festival and manages the Walk Waiheke website, a site that offers walking and accommodation packages. With a passion for Waiheke Island and walking on the island, Tessa now encou...

By June Ramli  Welcome to another episode of 30 minutes with DailyStraits.com. Our guest today is Dubai-based Christopher Clarke, the newly appointed CEO at Kokoswap. Clarke is a unique individual who comes from a sporting background, specifically professional English football, having had a successful career with well-known teams like Wolverhampton, Wanderers and Blackpool. He founded Kokoswa...

By June Ramli Welcome to another episode of 30 minutes with DailyStraits.com. Our guest today is New Zealand-based entrepreneur Steve Pirie, the founder of Wonder & Wander. Pirie is a serial entrepreneur who started working on his ventures at the tender age of 19. His naturally curious mind has led him to co-found and sell many successful businesses including Unleashed Travel (named by BRW as...

By June Ramli If you’ve watched the Disney movie Raya, you would really be able to resonate with this latest podcast series that I’ve prepared for you. In my recent interview with the Director of the Customs Museum from Negeri Sembilan in Malaysia, our topic of discussion was centre around well… dragons. Now let me explain, why did a business site like ours decide to do a piece on dragons? Well… I...

By June Ramli Welcome to another episode of 30 minutes with DailyStraits.com. This new show is slightly different from our usual chit chat about entrepreneurship and all things related to the business world. In this series, we would delve into Malay history and all things mythical. Before we get begin, let me explain how the idea of this show started. Well, it is all thanks to my debut novel “Dail...

By June Ramli The Power Of LinkedIn Welcome to another episode of 30 minutes with DailyStraits.com. Our guest today is New Zealand-based Stanley Henry of The Attention Seeker. The Attention Seeker is a digital marketing agency focusing exclusively on LinkedIn for B2B reputation building and lead generation.  Launched in 2019, The Attention Seeker has rapidly become a leading agency to execute...

By June Ramli  Malaysia in US  Welcome to another episode of 30 minutes with DailyStraits.com . Our guest today, Diana Talit who is New York Trade Commissioner for the Malaysia External Trade Development Corporation or Matrade for short Talit has over 25 years of working experience in both private and public sectors – 11 years as a corporate banker and 14 years in public service with Mal...

By June Ramli Malaysia’s Rupert Murdoch Welcome to another episode of 30 minutes with DailyStraits.com. Today, I have a special guest to introduce you to – my former boss Datuk Seri Kalimullah Hassan, who also happens to be the chairman of ECM Libra, a public-listed company, based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Kalimullah began his career as a journalist in 1979 in Penang before going on to work with...

By James McKew The retail landscape has transformed dramatically from the continuous digitalisation of the industry, exacerbated by the onslaught of the pandemic. Consumers in the Asia Pacific are now increasingly connected digitally with a shift in their buying habits, and are now more at ease clicking on smartphones to purchase all manners of products, than to visit offline shops and malls. Stat...

By Prof Dr James Koh Kwee Choy Judging from the reported number of COVID-19 positive cases in Malaysia and around the world, the task to bring infections down to zero is near impossible. In all honesty, we are all battle-weary since the pandemic started 18 months ago. COVID-19 may never go away. But we can live with it, turning this pandemic into something less threatening. Perhaps this could be t...

Exclusive By June Ramli We recently sat down with Kimberli Schuitman, the founder of MyCup. Co. NZ . and My Cup Menstrual Cups. Whilst running her other businesses, Kimberli started collecting menstrual cups from all over the world, to gift and share with friends before setting up her very own menstrual cup business in 2014. Her business website was established with a clear purpose – to be people-...

By Eric Cheng It has been an interesting six years building Carsome into what we are today. We have been on a journey to digitise Southeast Asia’s used car industry and elevate the car buying and selling experience through innovation and technology. Over the years, we faced many challenges, and the COVID-19 pandemic brought along a new set of obstacles. Most of us would know people who are struggl...

By June Ramli Sydney, August 28: It has been some months since we started our marketplace Tapiroo.com and the good news is that there has been some progress. We have set up a website and have even three sellers currently trading with us including yours truly. So, in this article, we would like to introduce our sellers to our readers, and in fact, we aim to do little write-ups like this for every o...

By June Ramli From The Nappy Lady to a Waste Enthusiast Welcome to another episode of 30 minutes with  DailyStraits.com . Our guest today is Kate Meads (pictured above) of  Waste Free with Kate & Co . Based in Tauranga, New Zealand, whose business is centred around waste education. Kate’s crusade in waste education started as a first-time mum wanting to save money through her cloth n...

By June Ramli Becoming The Next Aldi Welcome to another episode of 30 minutes with DailyStraits.com. In this episode, we break away from our usual entrepreneurial chit-chat and speak to the managing director of Ecostore New Zealand, Pablo Kraus (pictured above). Ecostore is the leading environmental and sustainable brand in New Zealand that focuses on home, body and baby products. In 1993, Malcolm...

By June Ramli ASEAN The Next EU? Welcome to another episode of 30 minutes with DailyStraits.com. In this episode, we break away from our usual entrepreneurial chit-chat and speak to Chris Humphrey (pictured above), the Executive Director, EU-ASEAN Business Council. Chris began his varied professional career as a UK Civil Servant where, amongst other things, he was a Private Secretary to a Minister...

By June Ramli Saving The World Through Sustainable Packaging Welcome to another episode of 30 minutes with DailyStraits.com.  Our guest today is Auckland-based entrepreneur Rebecca Percasky, the co-director and a co-founder of Better Packaging Co. Rebecca and her business partner Kate Bezar started the company together in 2017 and in four years have grown the company from strength to strength...