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Today we speak to Ms. Lim Ee Huang, Managing Director of Do Re Mi Services & Rental; they're the go-to for event production, concert events, and they have a retail front selling sound equipment on how their business has been heavily affected by the current pandemic.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Madison Technologies is a product development outfit that normally focuses on various other products and helping others to create and develop their products, but they wanted to find a way to help out in the current crisis.  So they created an easy to roll out contact tracing network for communities called CovCT, designed to help contact tracing personnel to do their job more efficiently. CEO & Co Founder of Madison Technologies, Praburaajan Selvarajan comes on the show to explain how it works.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What do you do when a homegrown Ice Creamery can no longer operate as they should? How do you keep a good relationship with your suppliers and your customers? What pivots are available to you? How do you ensure your ice cream business doesn’t go into a meltdown? We find out by catching up with Edmund Tan, Co-founder of Inside Scoop.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

How is the retail cosmetics and grooming products industry faring during the MCO? Like everyone else, not great. One such player, Hair Depot has 20 retail outlets mostly in shopping malls, all of which have to remain closed during the Movement Control Order. With business taking significant damage over the last few weeks, Jeff Yong, Group CEO of Hair Depot shares how he has now resorted to online consultation and has created new roles for his employees.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

One sector that has taken a massive hit due to COVID-19 is the Events industry. By definition, events entail mass gatherings of people, which has become a sort of taboo in recent weeks. And because of that, it’s going to be a while before it goes back to “business as usual” for everyone involved in creating and organizing events. To further expand on this, we got in touch with Bryan Chin, Founder of Masses & 8gency, a digital agency that works with multiple fashion brands for events and digital campaigns. Bryan shares his thoughts on the long-term effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Movement Control Order on the events sector.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In our country's (and the world's) current crisis, many employers are starting to worry about the future of their businesses, and many employees are worrying about job security. We take a look at the WOBB  annual Work Culture Malaysia Report, and how to attract the best talent to survive a post COVID-19 world.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Is RM10 Billion from the Prihatin Rakyat Economic Stimulus Package sufficient for SMEs to survive the MCO? Covid-19 has not only impacted businesses and the global economy but it’s also shaping the way of a new norm that we often hear recently. In this session, we unpack the recent stimulus addition and how to turn this crisis into an opportunity to stay afloat. This is an extraction of our Webinar Series, watch the video here: https://www.facebook.com/BFMradio/videos/162593571618025/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Co-Founder of local ice cream company Inside Scoop, Edmund Tan sheds some light on the extent to which the recently announced SME-focused stimulus package is able to support his business during the MCO period. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Saravana Kumar, a tax lawyer and a Partner of the Rosli Dahlan Saravana Partnership law firm, who also happens to be Patient No.53 (now fully recovered) on the COVID-19 list of infections, recently wrote an article on THE EDGE MARKETS about how the government could alleviate the taxpayers’ burden. In light of the most recent addition to the Prihatin Rakyat Economic Stimulus Package, our guest weighs in on what the stimulus package means for local businesses in terms of tax incentives.     See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Yesterday at 4PM, the PM announced an addition to the Prihatin Rakyat Economic Stimulus Package, including an allocation of RM10 billion to support and provide relief for SMEs. In this podcast, we have a chat with Adeline Chia, co-founder of Breakfast Buddy, a fully licensed western breakfast and lunch food truck operator in Damansara, who has not been able to operate at all since the MCO due to the nature of her business. She tells us about how she thinks the stimulus package will benefit her in this period of restricted movement. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.