AWANI Tonight 17 Oct 2024

#AWANITonight with @fayekwan_

1. 13th M'sia plan set for tabling in Q3 2025
2. Can sugar tax hike drive M'sians to cut back?

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Budget 2025 was tabled in Dewan Rakyat today, and now the crucial evaluation begins. Does #Belanjawan2025 successfully balance progress and prudence? On this episode of #ConsiderThis Melisa Idris speaks to Danial Rahman, CEO of Asian Strategy & Leadership Institute (ASLI), and Doris Liew, Economist & Assistant Research Manager at IDEAS Malaysia's Public Finance Unit.

Budget 2025 was tabled in Dewan Rakyat today, and now the crucial evaluation begins. Does #Belanjawan2025 successfully balance progress and prudence? On this episode of #ConsiderThis Melisa Idris speaks to Danial Rahman, CEO of Asian Strategy & Leadership Institute (ASLI), and Doris Liew, Economist & Assistant Research Manager at IDEAS Malaysia's Public Finance Unit.

#AWANITonight with @_farhanasheikh

1. Belanjawan 2025: PM unveils record RM421 bil expenditure

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Celine Ting (@celinetingkl) from OpenAcademy and Anas Hayyan (@anashayyan) from Asian Strategy & Leadership Institute (ASLI) discuss strategies for retaining and developing today's workforce, with a focus on meeting Gen Z's expectations while boosting productivity. #ItsAboutYOUth

AWANITonight with @sarayamia

1. Dewan Rakyat passes citizenship law amendments
2. Incentives to boost women's participation in workforce

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Ahead of the tabling of #Belanjawan2025, how well have the social security measures from #Belanjawan2024 protected Malaysians from economic vulnerability? Have they truly delivered, or is there a need for more targeted reforms? Tonight on #ConsiderThis, Melisa Idris speaks with Professor Datuk Norma Mansor, Director of Universiti Malaya’s Social Wellbeing Research Centre, and Balqais Yusoff, Head of the Policy and Strategy Department at EPF.

AWANITonight with @Hafiz_Marzukhi

1. Citizenship amendments: No group will be left behind, assures Home Minister
2. Concerns raised over lack of formal opposition to President-elect Prabowo's administration

More than half of the 558 children rescued from homes linked to GISB are underweight. A total of 30 of them also suffer from severe cognitive disorders.

Parliament will soon debate amendments allowing mothers to grant citizenship to their children. Family Frontiers’ Adlyn Adam Teoh warns that other proposed changes could impact vulnerable groups, urging for separate discussions.

#AWANITonight with @fayekwan_

1. Heavy rain brings flash floods to parts of KL
2. Citizenship amendments: Step forward for mothers, two steps back for others

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As Malaysia takes over the chair of ASEAN in 2025, the region faces a critical test: the deepening crisis in Myanmar. Despite the 5-Point Consensus agreed upon by ASEAN leaders in 2021, little progress has been made in resolving the ongoing violence and humanitarian disaster gripping the country. Can Malaysia’s chairmanship reshape ASEAN’s approach to Myanmar and bring about real change? On this episode of #ConsiderThis Melisa Idris speaks with Thomas Daniel, senior fellow in the Foreign Policy and Security Studies programme at ISIS Malaysia.

s Malaysia takes over the chair of ASEAN in 2025, the region faces a critical test: the deepening crisis in Myanmar. Despite the 5-Point Consensus agreed upon by ASEAN leaders in 2021, little progress has been made in resolving the ongoing violence and humanitarian disaster gripping the country. Can Malaysia’s chairmanship reshape ASEAN’s approach to Myanmar and bring about real change? On this episode of #ConsiderThis Melisa Idris speaks with Lilianne Fan, who is part of the Malaysian Advisory Group on Myanmar. She’s also the Co-Founder and International Director of the regional humanitarian organisation Geutanyoe Foundation.

#AWANITonight 14 Oct 2024 with Cynthia Ng

- Malacca issues fatwa declaring GISB as deviant

- 12MP expenditure exceeds allocation - AG Report

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A new COVID-19 variant has surged in the UK, known as XEC, with the North-East of the UK recording the highest hospital admission rates.