Episodes
Friday Nov 15, 2024
Friday Nov 15, 2024
#media #freespeech #truth
Investigative Journalism Site 'The Fourth's Founder Ian Yee - The First Casualty of War Is the Truth
Underrated, unrecognised and near as invisible to the risks involved, but the work of investigative journalists like Merdeka Award winner Ian Yee and his team at The Fourth (as in the Fourth Estate) are critical to a properly functioning democracy.
Almost like watchdogs, these silent heroes keep tabs on society’s criminals, whether they are corrupt public officials, human traffickers or immoral business people, writing stories and producing content on social media that highlight the transgressions committed by these crooks.
(Many thanks to CITYPlus for their collaboration with The Do More Podcast, in whose studio this conversation was recorded. CITYPlus is Malaysia's first Chinese business radio station, dedicated to delivering in-depth analysis on local and international current affairs, markets, and businesses.)
CONTENTS
00:00:00 - Intro by Chuang
00:02:12 - What Ian is Working On Right Now, Constant Search For Funding
00:04:49 - Why Become an Investigative Journalist?
00:07:33 - Career Rewards: Much More Than Financial Returns
00:11:15 - Saving Lives While Staying Low Profile
00:14:00 - The Risks, Man, The Risks!!!!!
00:18:34 - Malaysia Has Never Had More Press Freedom .. ??
00:20:51 - What Does it Say When Society Rewards Criminals and Penalises Saints .. ?
00:21:26 - Describe the Mind of the Investigative Journalist: What Drives Him/Her?
00:23:04 - Society Has a Plethora of Struggles Between the Forces of Good and Evil
00:25:06 - Work That Is Thankless and Pays Poorly .. Funding Should Also Be Clean, Free of Strings
00:27:38 - How to Support Ian and His Team: https://thefourth.media/subscribe/
00:32:49 - Resonating With Society Doesn’t Always Result In Funding
00:35:03 - A Heart-Rending Story: The Apartment With No Entrance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AQefhTP8zw – But No Resulting Support !
00:37:25 - How To Choose What to Investigate: Prime Considerations?
00:39:06 - Does ‘Life’ Ever Intervene?
00:41:58 - Winning The Merdeka Award: What It Means
00:43:37 - Facebook Is Declining, TikTok and Instagram Are Rising, How to Tell Short Video Stories
00:46:57 - Regional Work in ASEAN, Autocratic Governments, Societal Maturity
00:50:00 - Want to Join Ian Yee?
00:51:12 - What The Next Yen Years Hold for The Fourth and Ian, Goals
00:54:40 - Audience Funding, UNICEF?
00:56:30 - What Are Society’s Biggest Problems?
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Tuesday Oct 29, 2024
Tuesday Oct 29, 2024
#unity #harmony #fightracism
Researcher/Journalist Aziff Azuddin - Malay Youths Can Co-Exist With Chinese, But Islam Must Reign
The Malay youth were pivotal in Malaysia’s last elections and will only grow in importance in the future thanks to the current state of demographics. Yet do we really know how they think? What drives them, keeps them awake at night, inspires them?
Aziff’s research is a good start in dismantling the silos that Malaysian society has fallen into, a state that has been amplified on and preyed upon by corrupt politicians.
(Many thanks to CITYPlus for their collaboration with The Do More Podcast, in whose studio this conversation was recorded. CITYPlus is Malaysia's first Chinese business radio station, dedicated to delivering in-depth analysis on local and international current affairs, markets, and businesses.)
CONTENTS
00:01:56 - Who Aziff Azuddin Is
00:03:14 - The Background to Aziff’s Research on Malay Youths
00:05:54 - Common Grouses Among the Malay Youths
00:08:51 - Poor Mental Health .. What Kinds, How, Why?
00:12:19 - Pride and Hometown Matters. Why and How?
00:13:55 - Lack of Opportunities. Thought Process?
00:17:30 - The Vote Against DAP / PH And the Voting Process
00:20:55 - Politics As a Way To Get Rich?
00:23:42 - None Liked Syed Saddiq ..
00:24:20 - What Malay Youths Really Think About Malay Privileges
00:26:38 - Do Malay Youths Feel Malay Privileges Have Been Abused?
00:27:58 - Will Malay Youths Entertain The Idea of Malay Privileges Being Reexamined?
00:29:19 - Was The Sample Size Too Small?
00:30:55 - Who Funds Iman Research?
00:32:15 - How Malay Youths Think About The Chinese
00:36:54 - And Yet Politicians Don’t Legislate Integration - WHY
00:40:22 - Undi18: Yea or Nay? And the Impact of TikTok ..
00:45:00 - Islam: Yes in Life But No In Politics .. !
00:47:40 - The Next GE: What Did PH Learn? Will Malay Youths Turn Up to Vote?
00:49:55 - Why and How Politics Corrupt People
00:51:05 - How Malaysians Are Changing, What’s In Store For The Next Decade, The Najib Impact
00:56:00 - Corruption, Not Nation Building!!!!!
00:57:00 - The Politician Who Has a Podcast .. And How Malays Need More Meaningful Content Creators
01:01:30 - How Much Money Is Enough?
01:02:20 - Is Thought Reverting to the Family and Away From Politicians?
01:05:10 - How Malay Youth Think About The Indian Community
01:10:15 - How Progress Can Happen With Three Divergent Forces
01:14:10 - Top Three Recommendations for Positive Change
01:18:33 - Why We Haven’t Yet Descended Into Civil Disobedience
01:22:40 - Why The Young Seem to Be Reverting To Retro
01:28:00 - Finding Oneself At Home ..
01:33:00 - More Comfort In Identifying As ‘Muslim’, Versus ‘Malay’
01:36:35 - Next: How Urban Development Drives Voting Patterns
01:37:38 - Would Aziff Join Politics?
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Wednesday Oct 16, 2024
Wednesday Oct 16, 2024
#Movies #Hollywood #Racism #Chinese #Entertainment
Movie Producers Rachel Tan & Dan Mark - How Chinese Conquer Racism, Prejudice in Hollywood, USA
Is it a case of ‘from the frying pan into the fire’? Rachel Tan, a Malaysian ex-beauty queen, lawyer and model and her husband Dan Mark, also a lawyer of Chinese origin, found themselves in America well over a decade ago, after having left their respective homelands to escape racism and prejudice .. only to find America as racist and prejudiced as their own homelands.
However, the question at hand is whether America, whose own success was largely borne from immigrants, is still the land of opportunity. Especially when the industry in question is Entertainment, notoriously one of the most competitive and difficult to conquer.
Some facts to ponder (extracted from King Street Pictures’ website):
ASIAN AMERICANS IN FILM AND TELEVISION
- According to the MPAA, Asians had the highest rate of moviegoing among all ethnic groups in the U.S. in 2016.
- The U.S. Asian population grew 72% between 2000 and 2015, the fastest of any ethnic group.
- Asians will be the largest immigrant group in the U.S. by 2055.
- In terms of buying power, Asian households earn 36% more than others, and 13.4% of Asian households will earn more than $200,000 in 2019
Despite this, according to a USC Annenberg study of the top 100 films of 2017, only 4.8% featured a character of Asian descent with a speaking role.
Who will tell these stories if we do not?
(Many thanks to CITYPlus for their collaboration with The Do More Podcast, in whose studio this conversation was recorded. CITYPlus is Malaysia's first Chinese business radio station, dedicated to delivering in-depth analysis on local and international current affairs, markets, and businesses.)
CONTENTS
00:02:36 - Dan Introduces Himself
00:06:07 - Rachel Introduces Herself
00:12:10 - Is Los Angeles Greener Than The Grass At Home?
00:15:11 - The Feeling Of Being A Perpetual Foreigner in America
00:17:52 - Working Three Times As Hard As The Americans
00:20:52 - The Story Of ‘Sight’ – Rachel and Dan’s Movie About A Chinese Doctor in America
00:23:40 - How Life Is Like In LA After 13 Years, Starting A Law Firm, Getting Into Hollywood
00:28:15 - That Time When Donald Trump Blamed Covid On The Chinese ..
00:30:33 - Shaping The Asian Narrative .. And Make Money Too
00:35:04 - What It Takes To Succeed In Hollywood
00:38:02 - How Rachel and Dan Advise Influencers As Entertainment Lawyers
00:40:37 - NFTs Have Gone A Little Quiet; AI Is The Next Big Thing
00:41:57 - What Is The Chinese Psyche?
00:49:25 - How America’s Cultural Hodge-Podge Is Coming Together
00:54:40 - Why Rachel Left Malaysia, Why People Leave Malaysia
00:56:17 - How To Reach Rachel and Dan If You Want To Go To Hollywood
00:58:20 - Explaining The South Korean Film Industry Success
01:03:20 - How Do Asian American Movies Look Like in 10,15 Years Time
01:04:58 - How To Make an Artistic AND Critical Success
01:06:20 - How To Put Together An A-List Of Talent
01:09:20 - What It Takes To Command A Film Crew
01:10:34 - Can Cultural Differences Scupper A Film’s Success?
01:17:03 - Chasing Daylight: The A-Z Of Making A Hollywood Movie
01:20:50 - The Importance Of Track Record
01:22:10 - The Numbers: Production, Box Office Success Etc
01:24:35 - The Difference Between Hillbilly Elegy Vs A Movie From the Marvel Franchise
01:27:24 - How Netflix and Disney Have Disrupted The Film Industry
01:29:58 - How To Choose Between Netflix and Self-Release
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Wednesday Oct 02, 2024
Professor James Chin - Why Sabah and Sarawak’s Place in Malaysia is NOT Assured
Wednesday Oct 02, 2024
Wednesday Oct 02, 2024
Professor James Chin - Why Sabah and Sarawak’s Place in Malaysia is NOT Assured
CONTENTS
00:02:09 - Who Is Professor James Chin?
00:03:22 - Malaysian Race Relations, Sabah and Sarawak
00:05:47 - What People Need to Know About Sabah and Sarawak
00:07:38 - How Sabah, Sarawak Came To Be Part of Malaysia
00:10:40 - The Union Was Reluctant and Uninformed ..
00:13:53 - What Were The Promises Made to Sabah and Sarawak?
00:15:52 - How Many Of These Promises Were Kept?
00:17:43 - What About Sarawakian Oil? The Petroleum. Oil and Gas? What Happened?
00:19:55 - What Should Be Known About Sarawak?
00:22:39 - What Is The Sabahan Mentality?
00:25:45 -Are Sabahans Happy With Being Part of Malaysia?
00:27:36 - The East Malaysian ‘Vote Bank’: Still Important?
00:29:11 - Next General Elections: Three Permutations
00:32:05 - Which Permutation Is Most Possible?
00:33:36 - How The Young Voted: Rejection Politics or More Deep-Rooted?
00:36:27 - Why Is Pakatan In Such A Mess?
00:37:57 - If Anwar Wasn’t Elected, Why The Confidence in A Second Term?
00:39:05 - What Wins The Malay Vote?
00:41:21 - Can PAS Win The Next Election? What Happens If So?
00:44:02 - How Sabah, Sarawak Position If Malaysia Becomes More Conservative
00:46:06 - Does Singapore Move In With Sarawak?
00:49:42 - How Sarawak Figures in The US-China Spat, Vis-A-Vis South China Sea
00:52:31 - How Malaysia Sees China
00:55:52 - How Do Malaysians Position Themselves?
00:58:16 - What’s In Store For Malaysia To 2026?
01:00:57 - If Bumi Policies Cripple The Economy, How Does Anwar Maneuver?
01:01:22 - How Australia Sees Malaysia
01:02:40 - Which Other Countries Fall Under James’ Radar
01:03:06 - What We Need To Know About Malaysia and Philippines
01:04:52 - Is Singapore In a Good Place?
01:06:24 - Where Are The Unstable Nations?
01:07:28 - Is ASEAN The Reason for Regional Peace? As Kishore Mahbubani Suggests?
01:09:09 - How James Advises His Children
01:11:12 - Three Lessons
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Wednesday Sep 18, 2024
Wednesday Sep 18, 2024
#migration #recession #humanity
‘Shattered Hopes’ Author Romen Bose-Should You Migrate? Malaysia’s Messy But Europe Is (Much?) Worse
Romen Bose is a journalist, author and political risk consultant who has worked for media agencies like and helped former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak.
His book, ‘Shattered Hopes’, analyses what went wrong with Najib Razak’s disastrous election campaign in 2018 while offering some quite surprising allegations.
Currently living in the UK, Bose offers some equally surprising conclusions about life in the UK as an Asian professional, while also discussing his work in the geopolitical arena, in terms of the rising global tensions emanating from the Ukraine-Russia war.
CONTENTS
MAHATHIR’S IMPACT ON DEMOCRACY
00:03:11 - Romen Speaks About The Response To His Book After It Reached No.1 On The Bestseller List
00:05:41 - Mahathir Was The Mastermind of Pakatan’s Collapse - Not Najib .. ?
00:06:51 - What Explains Mahathir’s Machiavellian Mind?
00:08:56 - Getting Into Najib’s Inner Circle
00:11:03 - Mahathir’s Deadly Impact on Democracy in Malaysia
00:14:08 - Why Romen Left For The UK - Part Of The Brain Drain? And Becoming a Najib Confidante
LIFE IN THE UK
00:18:41 - Is Romen A Victim of Stockholm Syndrome?
00:23:28 - Is The Grass Greener In The UK / Europe?
00:27:35 - Racism In Malaysia, Racism in the UK Is The Same Everywhere
00:29:39 - Do you Regret Moving To the UK?
00:31:37 - Can You Save In The UK? Will You Retire In The UK? Are The Elderly Taken Care Of?
00:34:46 - Life As An Indian In The UK? Quality Of Life In The UK?
00:37:30 - There Is No Rota Canai In The UK
GEOPOLITICS
00:40:04 - How The Brits See The Ukraine War, Brexit, Relationship With The UK
00:42:31 - How US Elections Impacts The Ukraine War
00:44:31 - Europe Is Becoming More Right Wing ..
POLITICAL GUIDANCE TO THE MALAYSIAN GOVT
00:47:10 - How Romen Would Advise The Current Govt In The Current Global Situation
00:50:17 - Malaysia’s Lacks Leaders When It Can So Easily Be a Leader
00:54:20 - How Romen Advises His Kids
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Thursday Sep 05, 2024
Thursday Sep 05, 2024
#climatechange #netzero #coolerearth
Ex-RSPO CEO Datuk Darrel Webber - We’re Less Than 5°C Away From A Climate-Induced Extinction Event
Datuk Darrel Webber is a former CEO of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) who talks about how human behaviour is warming the earth at 17x the natural rate, which If left unchecked, will accelerate human extinction sooner than we think.
(Many thanks to the Asia School of Business for their collaboration with The Do More Podcast, in whose studio this conversation was recorded. The Asia School of Business is a partnership between MIT's Sloan School of Management and Bank Negara Malaysia).
CONTENTS
00:01:55 - Datuk Webber Shares His Origin Story
00:10:53 - Discovering What The Common Person REALLY Cares About
00:15:21 - Universal Basic Income Is One Way Forward
00:20:23 - Sabah, One Of The Poorest If Not The Poorest States in Malaysia
00:23:16 - Where Malaysia Ranks on the Global Climate Ladder
00:26:51 - How Climate Responsibility Coincides With The Economy
00:30:16 - Malaysia Needs to Develop Its Own Climate Plan, Not Ape The Western Model
00:34:02 - Reflecting On The Haze And How Palm Oil Disassociated Itself
00:42:05 - Climate Change Is Unstoppable
00:45:06 - Earth Has Already Experienced FIVE Extinction Ages
00:50:39 - How Financial Markets Harm Net Zero Ambitions
00:57:20 - Since Climate Change Can’t Be Stopped, It’s All About Adaptation Now
01:03:24 - Will Seafront Properties Make Sense In The Future?
01:05:52 - Government Needs to Protect Everyone, Not Just The Ones Who Vote For Them
01:08:52 - Nuclear Power Is A Real Option .. And So Is Solar
01:14:00 - How Will AI Solve The Climate?
01:15:09 - Fewer Humans, A Cooler Planet
01:16:54 - Personal Adaptation: How Datuk Webber Is Driving Change Personally
01:22:02 - The EV Industry – A Big Lie?
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Tuesday Aug 27, 2024
Tuesday Aug 27, 2024
Political Analysts & Academics Fui K Soong & Rita Sim - China Won’t Protect Malaysia’s Chinese
An eye-opening conversation that sought to begin with an exploration of the non-homogenous nature of Malaysia’s Chinese (not all Chinese are the same!!) that morphed into the much more important discussion of Malaysia’s position in a world of multiple superpowers and how we need to deal with the changing world order.
(Many thanks to CITYPlus for their collaboration with The Do More Podcast, in whose studio this conversation was recorded. CITYPlus is Malaysia's first Chinese business radio station, dedicated to delivering in-depth analysis on local and international current affairs, markets, and businesses.)
CONTENTS
00:02:06 - Rita and Fui Introduce Themselves and Their Work
00:06:05 - Not All Chinese in Malaysia Are the Same
00:09:50 - The Centuries-Old Three Pillars in the Chinese Community – GLOBALLY
00:13:16 - What People Need to Know About Malaysia’s Chinese
00:20:52 - What Narratives Speak to ALL Chinese in Malaysia
00:23:35 - The Integration Ship has Sailed
00:24:10 - Class, Not Race, Is the Biggest Divider
00:27:13 - Malaysian Politics Has Significantly Changed in the Last 15 Years
00:29:31 - Ahead of the Next Elections, How Should the Malaysian Chinese Be Addressed?
00:34:10 - Do the Chinese REALLY Seek Out Integration, Cohesion?
00:38:46 - Geopolitical Risks Will Determine Life, Not Domestic Integration
00:39:51 - Sabah, Sarawak: Secession. What's the Temperature?
00:41:21 - Regional Blocs Might Develop: Sarawak With Singapore. South China Sea Is In Play ..
00:43:00 - East Malaysia Is In The Eye of The Storm
00:43:27 - A New Team Might Form: Johor, Singapore, Sabah, Sarawak (Or Maybe Not)
00:44:05 - Sabah and Sarawak Do Not Always See Eye to Eye
00:44:27 - Johor and Sarawak Seem To Be Getting More Autonomous, Responding to Geopolitics
00:47:52 - What Singapore Sees in Johor, Both Are Inextricable
00:48:39 - What Are The Possibilities of this Union - In the Context of a Federated Malaysia
00:40:50 - Putrajaya Is Too Busy to Intervene ..
00:51:28 - Sabah Is A Bit of A Basket Case ..
00:52:45 - China and the US Have VERY Different Policy Plans
00:54:40 - No Empires Go Down Without a Fight, There is TOTAL Distrust
00:58:17 - How Malaysia Interplays With China's 50-Year Plan
01:02:10 - Kedah, Kelantan, Perak, etc Will FLY if Kra Happens
01:04:04 - How Will US Polls Pan Out?
01:07:17 - Can the US Afford A World War? Does the Dollar Break?
01:09:35 - Malaysia, Jaundiced, Does Not Have a WorldView
01:11:00 - How Unstable Will The Next Ten Years Be?
01:12:09 - Are There Any Malaysian Leaders With A Worldview
01:13:38 - How Should Individuals Position / Prepare For An Uncertain Future?
01:15:36 - Malaysia’s Chinese Don’t Trust China (!)
01:15:58 - China’s Chinese Are In Bed With Malaysia’s Chinese: T/F?
01:17:20 - Non-Chinese in Malaysia Need to Realise: China Will Not Protect Malaysia’s Chinese
01:18:40 - Malays Are Seeing that China Might Help Resolve the Middle East ..
01:21:00 - Does China Take Taiwan By Force? Is a Great War Coming?
01:25:07 - Russia and China Are Forging New, Deep Ties ..
01:27:55 - The Great War Has Already Started - And It’s Already Kinetic
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Wednesday Aug 14, 2024
Wednesday Aug 14, 2024
Eddin Khoo is a journalist, historian, author and poet. But perhaps his biggest contribution to society is his tireless work in protecting Malaysia’s traditional performing arts like the Wayang Kulit and Mak Yong, through his cultural organisation, Pusaka.
He rightly points out that Malaysia is a cosmopolis of races, cultures and traditions with a history older than most countries in the region.
But its importance has been systematically erased in the interests of political self-preservation.
This is his story, in his own words.
(Many thanks to the Asia School of Business for their collaboration with The Do More Podcast, in whose studio this conversation was recorded. The Asia School of Business is a partnership between MIT's Sloan School of Management and Bank Negara Malaysia).
CONTENTS
00:00:00 - Intro
00:02:42 - Who’s Eddin Khoo (In His Own Words)
00:06:42 - What We Need to Know About Our History
00:08:45 - Our Racial Barriers Are A Construct
00:11:25 - Why Is Malaysia’s History Her Great Wound?
00:17:10 - What Eddin Has Learnt About Malaysia From the Microcosm That Is Kelantan
00:23:37 - Malaysians Are Very Lazy in their Caricature of Our Differences
00:26:17 - Why Did the Young Malays Vote In a So-Called ‘Green Wave'?
00:30:03 - How Does Eddin Know So Much About the Malay Psyche?
00:32:52 - The Kelantanese Young Crave Leadership But Its Leaders Cannot Offer It. WHY
00:36:42 - Politics Changes People. WHY
00:39:43 - What Should Malaysia’s National Narrative Be?
00:44:51 - Malaysia Is Bastardised ..
00:48:29 - What’s the TL:DR of Eddin’s National Narrative for Malaysia
00:55:05 - Message(s) to the Sclerotic (Rigid) Leadership?
01:02:40 - What Political Messaging Will Have Power?
01:07:32 - Malaysia’s Collective Will, Mutual Respect Has Been Subverted
01:09:38 - What Did You Learn From Chairing the UEC?
01:14:02 - Why Politicians Are Like Snakes: Many Different Heads
01:17:08 - Why Politicians Cannot and Will Resist Change
01:18:42 - How Do Kelantanese View Intellectual Self-Interrogation
01:20:26 - When Will Change Come? Will it Ever Come?
01:22:32 - Collective Change, Not Generational Change
01:25:54 - Can Socialism Work in Malaysia?
01:27:38 - Why History is Important
01:31:15 - How to Get More Young Malaysians Interested in History?
01:36:15 - There’s a Lot of Soul-Searching, Self-Searching Going On Right Now
01:40:42 - Malaysia’s Middle Class Are Indolent, Colonial Hogs In Defining Malaysia’s Racial Makeup
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Sunday Jul 28, 2024
Sunday Jul 28, 2024
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Islamic Scholar Sheikh Imran Hosein - What Non-Muslims Need to Know About Islam
Sheikh Imran Nazar Hosein is an Islamic scholar who specialises in contemporary interpretations of Islamic eschatology (a field of study in Islam concerning future events that would happen in the end times that is primarily based on sources from the Quran and Sunnah).
Sheikh Imran gave up his career as a diplomat in 1985 to dedicate his life to the mission of Islam, since then a tireless missionary who travels for years at a time in the cause of Islam, including in Malaysia, where he is occasionally based.
Sheikh Imran is also a commentator on international monetary economics, advocating for the establishment of free-markets and currency with intrinsic value as a means of savings and aversion of a pending collapse of the “world of paper money”.
CONTENTS
00:03:04 - Who is Sheikh Imran Hosein?
00:07:11 - What Do Non-Muslims Need to Know About Islam?
00:14:14 - There Remain Many Misconceptions ..
00:17:40 - How Can There Be One Truth, One God When There Are So Many Different Faiths?
00:18:29 - And Yet Humankind Is So Different..
00:19:59 - Why Are We So Suspicious and Fearful of Each Other?
00:22:46 - Why Did Nixon Take America Off the Gold Standard?
00:30:35 - People Are Fleeing the US Dollar in Droves
00:31:36 - Islamic Eschatology: The End of History and The End of The World
00:38:25 - Currencies Are Bogus
00:39:07 - Electronic Money Is Bogus
00:40:05 - Slavery Exists Today - In Fact, It’s Widespread
00:45:01 - The Great War, Nuclear In Nature .. How Close Are We To The End Times?
00:49:20 - Fact-Based Naysayers Might Object .. ?
00:51:59 - Russia-Ukraine War: How Does it Expand From There?
00:58:59 - The World Is Moving Towards a Muslim-Christian Alliance
01:01:22 - What Should We Know About What’s Happening in the Middle East?
01:04:32 - Islam: A Religion of Unity, Brotherhood and Sisterhood .. Correct?
01:06:22 - It Appears That Islam Has Been Captured by the Oppressors ..
01:08:06 - How Does One Prepare for a Future That Is Full of Difficulties?
01:10:16 - In Islamic Eschatology, What Do the End Times Look Like?
01:12:55 - In Malaysia, How Do We Live Together More Peacefully?
01:16:47 - Sheikh Imran’s Parting Words for Malaysians
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Thursday Jul 18, 2024
Thursday Jul 18, 2024
Malaysia Semiconductor Industry Association President Dato’ Seri SH Wong - One of Every Five Graduate Engineers Leave Malaysia for Better Opportunities
Penang, in Malaysia’s Northern Region, is a key player in the global semiconductor industry’s value chain, with major players like Intel and Hewlett-Packard investing in the state since the 1960s. Currently, Penang contributes in the region of 5% of the global export value.
But the state is struggling to meet a boom in global demand for semiconductors, due to a critical shortage in skilled engineers, thanks to a cocktail of factors. Malaysia Semiconductor Industry Association President Dato’ Seri SH Wong, addresses these issues
CONTENTS
00:02:04 - Who is Dato Sri SH Wong?
00:03:03 - Why Intel Founder Andy Grove Chose to Invest in Penang in the 70s
00:04:57 - Moore’s Law: Still Applicable?
00:06:23 - The Mag7 and Nvidia: How Data Drives the World Today
00:07:11 - Difference Between Nvidia Chips and Intel’s Chip?
00:08:23 - What’s Driving The Shortage of Engineers in Malaysia
00:11:23 - What Skills Are Needed?
00:13:24 - What Skills Are Most Needed Right Now?
00:14:38 - Which Comes First? Investment or Skills?
00:17:53 - An Easier Way to Fill the Skills Shortage Is ..
00:18:42 - Where Are the Blockages?
00:19:30 - Malaysia's Mid-Technology Gap
00:21:20 - Where Malaysia Can Supply Tesla or Nvidia
00:24:24 - How To Get Kids More Interested in Science and Maths
00:26:34 - How to Spark the Spirit of Enquiry
00:29:57 - We Lose A Lot of Engineers to Other Countries
00:33:15 - Chip Makers Like Nvidia and TSMC Are Companies of National Importance
00:37:14 - Taiwan’s Technology has Consumer AND Military Applications
00:38:04 - The Possibility of War Has Businesses Scrambling for a Plan B
00:39:48 - South China Sea and Straits of Malacca: How Important Are These Waterways, Choke Points?
00:41:00 - Geopolitics and War: Threat or Opportunity?
00:42:38 - Who Are the Competition?
00:45:09 - Dato Sri’s Life Lesson #1: Resilience
00:46:44 - Dato Sri’s Life Lesson #2: No Limitations
00:46:53 - Dato Sri’s Life Lesson #3: Adaptability
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Links to bio:
https://www.semiconsea.org/Forging-forward/-dato-seri-wong-siew-hai-msia
https://gsb.usm.my/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Brief-Biodata-SHW-21062021-1.pdf
https://klse.i3investor.com/web/corporatefigure/detail/0208?id=0208-62903-2045757229
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