Breakfast with Ryan Huang, Emaad Akhtar and Audrey Siek

In this morning's The Breakfast Brief, we discuss the pressures China is facing due to its Covid-Zero strategy including, Chinese tech stocks falling for a third consecutive day, weighed by shares linked to electric vehicle production as lockdowns on the mainland disrupt logistics.

Synopsis: On the third Friday of every month, The Straits Times examines various facets of the US-China rivalry and its implications for Asia.  Join Charissa Yong and Danson Cheong - ST’s US and China correspondents respectively based in Washington DC and Beijing - as they chat about the US' National Zoo celebrating its 50th "pandaversary" and China's most significant mode of animal diplomacy. Highlights (click/tap above): 01:28 How Americans view the National Zoo's pandas 03:10 Animal diplomacy: Pandas serve as friendly ambassadors and bridges of friendship 04:51 US panda cub Xiao Qiji, conceived via artificial insemination 07:48 Haiguis: a term also used for pandas born in the US and returned to China 09:03 How tensions between US and China could affect panda conversation efforts Produced by: Charissa Yong (charyong@sph.com.sg), Danson Cheong (dansonc@sph.com.sg), Fa'izah Sani and Hadyu Rahim Edited by: Fa'izah Sani and Hadyu Rahim Follow our Asian Insider Podcast channel every week here and rate us: Channel: https://str.sg/JWa7 Apple Podcasts: https://str.sg/JWa8 Spotify: https://str.sg/JWaX Google Podcasts: https://str.sg/wQsB SPH Awedio app: https://www.awedio.sg/ Website: http://str.sg/stpodcasts Feedback to: podcast@sph.com.sg Read Charissa Yong's stories: https://str.sg/3xRa Read Danson Cheong's stories: https://str.sg/3xR2 Follow Danson on Twitter: https://twitter.com/dansoncj Read ST's Power Play articles: https://str.sg/3xRE Register for Asian Insider newsletter: https://str.sg/stnewsletters --- Discover ST's special edition podcasts: The Unsolved Mysteries of South-east Asia: https://str.sg/wuZ2 Stop Scams: https://str.sg/wuZB Singapore's War On Covid: https://str.sg/wuJa Invisible Asia: https://str.sg/wuZn --- Discover more ST podcast series: Asian Insider: https://str.sg/JWa7 Green Pulse: https://str.sg/JWaf Health Check: https://str.sg/JWaN In Your Opinion: https://str.sg/w7Qt Your Money & Career: https://str.sg/wB2m #PopVultures: https://str.sg/JWad ST Sports Talk: https://str.sg/JWRE Bookmark This!: https://str.sg/JWas Lunch With Sumiko: https://str.sg/J6hQ Discover ST Podcasts: http://str.sg/stpodcasts Discover BT Podcasts: https://bt.sg/pcPL Follow our shows then, if you like short, practical podcasts! #STAsianInsider

Shane Oliver, Head of Investment Strategy and Chief Economist, AMP Capital discusses if Netflix can make a turnaround with an ad-based version and whether Tesla can continue to offset its challenges with higher prices.

As borders are reopening, international education services provider IDP Singapore has observed a mounting interest from Singapore students. Emma Chen, Marketing Manager, IDP Education, talks to us about her company's role in helping Singapore's youth pursue their academic endeavors and how the climate surrounding overseas study has changed given the current Covid-19 pandemic.

Singapore has always had a healthy semiconductor industry. But despite the demand, the industry is somewhat finding it hard to fill up the gaps in their workforce. So what is it like working in the semiconductor field in Singapore? How can the industry entice people to work in their field? Tan Lee Sar, Managing Director, HR Business Partner Regional Lead, Applied Materials shares more. 

In this week's Stocks to Watch, we're joined by Shekhar Jaiswal, Senior Equity Head & Team Head (Singapore), RHB Investment Bank to discuss how transport operator Comfortdelgro can pass on higher costs to run its business and how ST Engineering's well diversified business has helped the company in the current volatile market environment. 

In this morning's The Breakfast Brief, we discuss the factors leading to shares of Netflix closing down more than 35 percent overnight and Tesla's first-quarter profit and sales topping estimates, sending shares up post-market 6 percent. 

Recycling, which was once promoted as the silver bullet to fighting pollution and climate change has unfortunately got itself a bad rep. Here in Singapore, according to statistics released by The National Environment Agency (NEA), our domestic recycling rate remained at 13 percent in 2021, unchanged from 2020's figures, a 10-year low. So what are we missing here, how did recycling earn itself a bad reputation? Danny Foong, General Manager, High Performance Polymers, Arkema shares his views. 

Singapore was once described by the New York Times as a place ‘so clean that bubble gum is a controlled substance'. The definition of ‘cleanliness’ for most of us must have changed over the last two years due to Covid-19. GERMii will be partnering with SoftBank Robotics to introduce and engineer innovative products and technologies in the field of cleaning and sterilisation. Harold Van Haltren, CEO, GERMii shares his views on the future of cleanliness and how GERMii will be part of it.