Breakfast with Ryan Huang, Emaad Akhtar and Audrey Siek

In this morning's The Breakfast Brief, we discuss US President Joe Biden's plan to revise the environmental part of Build Back Better, Thailand's suspension of its quarantine-free entry over Omicron fears and their central bank's plan to keep its benchmark interest rate, and more. 

Synopsis: The Straits Times analyses the latest developments in China in this weekly podcast. The Straits Times' China bureau chief Tan Dawn Wei chats with Money FM 89.3's Elliot Danker and Bharati Jagdish. Highlights (click/tap above): 00:35 Why Chinese banks are lowering borrowing costs for the first time in 20 months 02:45 On the powers of the new agency, the China National Anti-Monopoly Administration 05:00 China's zero Covid strategy in the face of Omicron variant & its hosting of the Winter Olympics  Produced by: Tan Dawn Wei (dawntan@sph.com.sg), The Breakfast Huddle, Money FM 89.3 & Fa'izah Sani Edited by: Dan Koh Subscribe to our Asian Insider Podcast channel to follow our various shows each week and rate us on your favourite audio apps: Channel: https://str.sg/JWa7 Apple Podcasts: https://str.sg/JWa8 Google Podcasts: https://str.sg/wQsB  Spotify: https://str.sg/JWaX SPH Awedio app: https://www.awedio.sg/ Website: http://str.sg/stpodcasts Feedback to: podcast@sph.com.sg Read Tan Dawn Wei's stories: https://str.sg/3xR7 Register for Asian Insider newsletter: https://str.sg/stnewsletters --- Discover more ST podcast series: Green Pulse Podcast: https://str.sg/JWaf Health Check Podcast: https://str.sg/JWaN ST Sports Talk Podcast: https://str.sg/JWRE #PopVultures Podcast: https://str.sg/JWad Bookmark This! Podcast: https://str.sg/JWas Lunch With Sumiko Podcast: https://str.sg/J6hQ Discover BT Podcasts: https://bt.sg/pcPL Follow our shows then, if you like short, practical podcasts!

Lee Kian Soon, CEO, Astral Asset Management discusses how much of an impact the setback to Biden's $2 trillion Build Back Better proposal will have on markets, as well as lessons he'll be taking away from 2021.

Before we get too excited with the metaverse and everything that we can potentially explore, it is important to understand what is exactly fueling or defining the virtual world. Jon Li, CEO & Founder, VIZZIO shares his personal journey leading deep tech transformation in Singapore to metaverse, and if Singapore could potentially be a key market to pioneer 3D capture and virtualisation technology. 

In conjunction with the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)’s 75th anniversary, EIU has released a new report that highlights what the future of President Xi Jingping’s China would look like and the reshaping of China as a rising power among the most momentous events of the past two decades. Tom Rafferty, Regional Director, Asia, Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) shares what we can expect from China moving forward especially under President Xi’s leadership. 

From China’s central bank cutting their benchmark lending rate to China looking at further improving their anti-monopoly legislation and industry regulation plus their situation with Covid-19 variant Omicron, Tan Dawn Wei, China Bureau Chief, The Straits Times gives an analysis of it all.  Follow The Straits Times' Asian Insider Podcast channel - co-produced with Money FM 89.3 - like us and rate us: Channel: https://str.sg/JWa7 Apple Podcasts: https://str.sg/JWa8 Google Podcasts: https://str.sg/Ju4h  Spotify: https://str.sg/JWaX Website: http://str.sg/stpodcasts Feedback to: podcast@sph.com.sg Asian Insider newsletter.   Asian Insider videos: https://str.sg/JoVb SPH Awedio app: https://www.awedio.sg/

In this morning's The Breakfast Brief, we discuss the fall of Biden’s Build Back Better bill, the US response to Omicron, Europe's introduction of more curbs to fight a surge in Covid-19 infections, and more. 

Synopsis: The Straits Times analyses the latest developments in the United States in this weekly podcast.  The Straits Times' US bureau chief Nirmal Ghosh chats with Money FM 89.3's Elliot Danker and Bharati Jagdish about the following points: Highlights (click/tap above): 02:08 More unvaccinated seniors than previously thought in a few US states due to mistake in vaccination audit numbers 04:07 US Federal Agency will issue citations to companies for failing to comply with the nationwide mandate of testing and/or vaccinations 05:30 Taiwan votes against reimposing ban on US imported pork that contains feed additive ractopamine, which is banned in European Union, China and Russia 07:00 San Francisco declared a state of emergency due to the spike of fatal drug overdoses, caused mainly by fentanyl Produced by: Nirmal Ghosh (nirmal@sph.com.sg), The Breakfast Huddle, Money FM 89.3, Ernest Luis & Fa'izah Sani Edited by: Dan Koh Subscribe to our Asian Insider Podcast channel to follow our various shows each week and rate us on your favourite audio apps: Channel: https://str.sg/JWa7 Apple Podcasts: https://str.sg/JWa8 Google Podcasts: https://str.sg/wQsB  Spotify: https://str.sg/JWaX SPH Awedio app: https://www.awedio.sg/ Website: http://str.sg/stpodcasts Feedback to: podcast@sph.com.sg Read Nirmal Ghosh's stories: https://str.sg/JbxG Register for Asian Insider newsletter: https://str.sg/stnewsletters --- Discover more ST podcast series: Green Pulse Podcast: https://str.sg/JWaf Health Check Podcast: https://str.sg/JWaN ST Sports Talk Podcast: https://str.sg/JWRE #PopVultures Podcast: https://str.sg/JWad Bookmark This! Podcast: https://str.sg/JWas Lunch With Sumiko Podcast: https://str.sg/J6hQ Discover BT Podcasts: https://bt.sg/pcPL Follow our shows then, if you like short, practical podcasts!

Just recently, UPS Supply Chain Solutions (SCS) opened its first innovation centre globally aiming to connect businesses in Asia with emerging technologies in logistics. Li Yu, Director, APAC Contract Logistics and Healthcare, UPS shares more about the learning lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic to the supply chain sector and what the launch of its Supply Chain Solutions Asia Pacific Innovation Centre (APIC) in Singapore mean for UPS. 

What is performance marketing, and why does it matter today? Joseph Goh, Co-founder, Marketing Strategist and Branding Expert, Hyper Fame Digital breaks down the differences between ‘Digital marketing’ and ‘performance marketing’, and why performance marketing is the right fit for traditional retail businesses.