The Breakfast Grille

SenseTime is the world’s most valuable Artificial Intelligence start-up, having raised more than $1.6 billion from the likes of Alibaba and Qualcomm. Currently valued at over $4.5 billion, SenseTime was recently tapped to be part of China’s national push to develop the next generation of AI. We speak to its co-founder, Xu Bing, about the company’s international expansion plans an...

Dato' Muzaffar Hisham talks about the business segment's tough balancing act between growth and risk management. He also shares the strategies undertaken by Maybank Global in the current challenging operating environment faced by banks today. We ask him about the earnings momentum moving forward for the business that is the second largest earnings contributor to the Maybank Group. Muzaffar also re...

Azhar Azizan Harun, popularly known by his pen name Art Harun, was appointed as the Election Commission’s new chairman. He officially assumed office the eve of Nomination Day for the Port Dickson by-election. He shares how he plans to reform the EC and address issues within the electoral system. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Lu International is the Singapore-based subsidiary of the Chinese online wealth management giant, Lufax. Lufax itself is owned by Ping An Group, which is the largest financial services company in China. Following the recent launch of Lu Global, its online wealth management platform aimed at individual Asian investors, we speak to CEO Kit Wong on Lu’s growth strategy and its fintech advantage...

Puan Zakiah talks us through some of the key pillars of the revised 11MP, including the reform agenda. She also explains the rationale for the potential trade-offs as evidenced by the lowered macroeconomic targets for 2020. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

GrabPay is the digital payments business of Grab and its game plan is to be the "Asean Wallet". But the battle for payment platform dominance is heating up in the region. Everyone wants a share of the e-payments pie -- from Chinese Giants such as Tencent and Alibaba to traditional banks as well as Grab’s biggest rival Go-Jek that is expanding beyond its home base of Indonesia. At home, there...

Teresa Kok, the Minister of Primary Industries, sheds light into how the ministry is managing issues within the palm oil industry. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Port Dickson by-election is widely seen as a barometer of sentiment towards the Pakatan Harapan government. We discuss the outcome of the weekend by-elections and what this means for the government moving forward with our panel of guests. We also speak with Dato' Dr Rais Hussin on the drafting and implementation of the Pakatan Harapan manifesto. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informat...

Lim Peng Jin, Managing Director of Scientex Berhad, discusses the family company's journey to become one of the top three producers of packaging materials in the world and its plans to get even bigger, to quadruple revenue by 2028. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In his 2017 book 'Playing with Fire', Dr. Yilmaz Akyüz concluded that his home country of Turkey was the emerging economy most vulnerable to external financial shocks. What can Malaysia learn from Turkey's woes? Dr. Akyüz also identifies the vulnerabilities of the Malaysian economy, while outlining both its short-term and long-term challenges. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy info...

Renowned development economist and author of “23 Things They Don’t Tell you About Capitalism” Dr Ha-Joon Chang discusses Malaysia's deindustrialisation and industrial policy, and looks to the lessons of South Korea. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Professor Joseph E. Stiglitz, who won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2001, shares his reflections on the state of the global economy in 2018 — from inequality to political polarisation, from 1MDB to the rise of China. Professor Joseph Stiglitz was a speaker at the Khazanah Megatrends Forum 2018. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Edge was one of the early trailblazers into the 1MDB investigation in terms of media coverage. Ho Kay Tat revealed how The Edge team first caught wind of this big story and what triggered the media group to pursue it relentlessly - despite having been shut down by the BN government for close to 3 months in 2015 due to its 1MDB reporting. Was there a time when they had wanted to throw in the to...

Vizione has been historically dependant on government jobs in the property sector. Even after having grown its FY18 net income by 43 times compared to the prior financial year, share prices have remained stubbornly low. Given the expected pullback in public spending, will Vizione be able to find new avenues of growth, ones that shareholders can latch on to? Dato’ Ng weighs in. See omnystudio...

From the RM80.77 million tax bill, to reducing property prices at the behest of the Minister of Finance, K. Mohanachandran speaks about MK Land's bid to overcome challenges in the property sector. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Melisa Idris speaks to Ng Chet Chiang, CEO of Logistics Worldwide Express and one of the founders of Malaysia's pioneer courier company, City-Link Express, about the potential of e-commerce and lessons we can learn from China. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this day in age where the customer can go direct to the source for practically anything thanks to technology, just how relevant are tour agents today? We discuss this with Datuk Tan. We also ask him how tour agents are strategising to fend their turf from the likes of AirBnB who are encroaching into their territory. He further shares how regulation and policies have affected the Malaysian touri...

Umno Member of Parliament for Rembau, Khairy Jamaluddin, now holds the Finance Ministry portfolio in Barisan Nasional’s Shadow Cabinet. Melisa Idris speaks to him about Umno's role as the opposition, ahead of the party's General Assembly this weekend. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tun Mahathir's push for a third national car has ignited heated debate among Malaysians. Dato' Madani weighs in on the merits of such ambitions. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tan Sri Dr. Munir Majid, Chairman of CIMB ASEAN Research Institute or CARI, and Dr. Donald Hanna, Chief Economist of the CIMB Group, discuss the whys and wherefores of the escalating trade spat between China and the US, what it means for the global economy and perhaps most importantly, the repercussions for Malaysia, which counts both protagonists as important trading partners. The duo also discus...

Dr. Afif Bahardin addresses the public’s fatigue in the politicking and infighting that appears to be taking place within PKR. He also analyses why there was such a mixed response to the Port Dickson move, and if the PKR party polls is really about camps, between those aligned with Rafizi Ramli or Azmin Ali. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We speak to Datuk Liew Vui Keong, Minister in the Prime Minister's Department for Legal Affairs, about the role and responsibilities of a de facto law minister and how he views the plural legal system practiced here in Malaysia. We also discuss the progress of the Pakatan-Harapan government in granting more autonomy to Sabah and Sarawak. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Melisa speaks to the minister about his appointment and agenda, party politics between PAS and Amanah as well as the rice monopoly and BERNAS' role in the industry. They also talk about the National Feedlot Corporation (NFC), the recent trip to China and the development and modernization of the agriculture sector. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This Malaysia Day, celebrate through a journey back in time with Malaysia's longest serving Member of Parliament Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah. Tengku shares what it was like to work alongside leaders who led the country through independence, and tells the story of his own involvement with the Malayan-UN delegation that eventually led to the formation of the Federation of Malaysia. See omnystudio.com/li...

Having offered Islamic financial services in the country since 1994, HSBC Amanah Malaysia is now the country's 6th largest Islamic bank by branch network. Oz speaks about the Islamic finance's growth potential domestically vis a vis the global context. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.