Money Matters with Hongbin Jeong and Chua Tian Tian

If you have not been to the movies of late, this conversation is probably a hint for you to do so.  But if you’ve been to the cinemas of late, chances are you might have watched the Barbie Movie, Oppenheimer or the latest instalment of the Mission:Impossible franchise, the Dead Reckoning Part 1.  Speaking of which, beyond the cast and directors, have you ever wondered what made the movies come to life? What about the visual system that makes the iconic pink colour pop in the Barbie Movie. Or the immersive sound system that makes you feel the blast in Oppenheimer or that car chase in Mission Impossible?  Our guest for today is Dolby Laboratories. The firm works with artists, storytellers and businesses to revolutionise entertainment and communications with its visual and audio systems such as the Dolby Atmos, Dolby Vision and Dolby Cinema.  But how does this work exactly, and are these players considered at Dolby Laboratories, customers or partners? Also, what are some of the products in its pipeline for this year and the next? On Under the Radar, The Evening Runway’s finance presenter Chua Tian Tian posed these questions to Ashim Mathur, Vice President, APAC, Dolby Laboratories.

Out with the new and in with the old because vintage luxury is making a serious comeback.  Amid steady growth in the pre-loved fashion market since the Covid-19 pandemic, there has been a rising sub-interest in vintage luxury goods, particularly handbags.  Elaine Fung, founder of pre-loved luxury boutique Loveholic tells us more about this newfound appeal for vintage items and shares an expert's guide to authenticating second-hand designer bags. 

Fancy having some French cuisine at a fraction of its usual cost? Nice Rice is a stall that sells French-Japanese rice bowls located at a coffee shop on Telok Ayer Street. Shawnrick Hu gives us his review on the food stall and what to order there. 

In this special edition of The Evening Runway, guest co-host Jon Chua, Founder & CEO, Zendyll Music shares his experience transitioning from his Sam Willows days to the challenges he faces being in the music industry. 

Shanti Pereira ended Singapore's 49-year wait for an Asian Games gold medal in athletics by winning the women's 200m final at the 19th Asian Games Hangzhou - capping a stellar year on track that's seen her win medal after medal, smash record after record. What can we learn from Shanti's heroics, and where to from here for Singapore's sprint queen? We speak to Rohit Brijnath, assistant sports editor with The Straits Times, who was in Hangzhou to witness Shanti's historic feat. READ MORE: https://www.straitstimes.com/sport/a-golden-lesson-from-pereira-winning-is-within-our-reach Got a story to tell? Get in touch with us! edanker@sph.com.sg | raushan@sph.com.sg

Resilience is often described as the ability to bounce back from adversity and adapt to the changing needs of a stressful situation, by utilising the environmental or social resources that are available to them.   Recently Income Insurance and Centre for Research on Successful Ageing (ROSA) at the Singapore Management University (SMU) has done a study to find out the resilience level of Singaporeans.  Shannen Fong, Vice-President & Head, Strategic Communications & Sustainability, Income Insurance dives into the findings from the study. 

Singapore shares opened the day weaker after global markets closed mostly lower. In early trade, the Straits Times Index headed down 0.5 per cent to 3,191.96 points, after 54.9 securities changed hands in the broader market. More corporate and international news continue to dominate the headlines today.  They range from Meta Platforms considering paid ad-free subscription for users in Europe to the Biden administration warning Beijing of its plans to update export curbs as early as this month. On Market View, The Evening Runway’s finance presenter Chua Tian Tian unpacked the developments with Jeffrey Yap, Head of Investments and Wealth Solutions, SEA, HSBC Global Private Banking and Wealth.

If you don’t know something, just Google it!  While Google started out as the name of a search engine company, the word has become almost synonymous with the act of looking something up online. Beyond that, the tech firm has made itself into all parts of our lives. Some of us use Gmail for emails, Google docs for crafting documents, and Google Drive for cloud storage.  Not to mention the Android operating system that some of our phones use, and the YouTube app that we stream our videos from.  In fact, Google has 15 products that each serve over half a billion people and businesses, and six that serve more than 2 billion users too. But it wasn't that long ago when such conveniences were not available. In fact Google was founded just 25 years ago, and is way younger than a number of industrial firms that we spoke with on the show. So what was Google’s journey like throughout the past quarter century? What went ‘Under the Radar’ over the past 25 years?  And how does Google intend to take itself forward in the next 25 years, with the advent of Generative AI? How does it assess its peers’ investments into AI startups? On Under the Radar, The Evening Runway’s finance presenter Chua Tian Tian posed these questions to Ben King, Managing Director, Google Singapore.

From the huge question of Chinese President Xi Jinping's attendance at the upcoming APEC summit to the Belt & Road Initiative (BRI) marking its 10th anniversary. Dr. Oh Ei Sun, Senior Fellow, Singapore Institute of International Affairs gives us an analysis of those headlines and more. 

Liverpool fell victim to a "significant human error" as the PGMOL admitted that VAR officials had failed to act after Luis Diaz's 34th-minute strike at Tottenham was wrongly ruled out for offside. With the catalogue of errors by officials piling up, how can the refereeing body restore credibility? And speaking of apologies, Guardiola might owe one to "that Korean guy" as Hwang Hee-chan scored the winner in Wolves' unlikely win over Manchester City! Got a story to tell? Get in touch with us! edanker@sph.com.sg | raushan@sph.com.sg