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Latest episodes
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21 min
The Forgotten Humanitarian Crisis In Myanmar
We highlight the worsening humanitarian crisis in Myanmar in the Rakhine State and beyond with Shinjiro Murata, General Director, MSF Japan. As the world has been overwhelmed with…
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21 min
BTS Of The Greatest Show On Earth
In today's Pressing Matters, we go behind the scenes with journalist Ira Porter from the Monitor about the recently concluded Paris Olympics. We ask him how the games delivered for…
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21 min
Venezuela's High Stake Elections
Following the conclusion of voting in Venezuela's presidential elections, the streets erupted with protests as conflicting results emerge with both the government and the oppositio…
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21 min
Bangladesh's Unprecedented Violent Protests
Following a series of violent protests triggered by job quotas, we speak to Michael Kugelman, director of the Wilson Center's South Asia Institute about how the protests grew so fa…
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21 min
Post Mortem on Global IT Outage
On today’s show, we do a post mortem on the unprecedented IT outage that created chaos throughout the world a little over a week ago. The outage resulted in massive disruptions fro…
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21 min
Will Trump 2.0 Be Different From Trump 1.0?
We discuss with Dr Adrian Ang from the S Rajaratnam School of international studies on the recently concluded Republic Convention which anointed President Donald Trump as the Repub…
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21 min
Turbulence In The PH1.0 Government
On today's show Pressing Matters Philip See speaks to Romen Bose an international correspondent and former political communications consultant about his latest book Shattered Hopes…
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21 min
Malaysia's Media Industry Continues To Struggle
In this week's Pressing Matters, Philip See speaks to Prof. Zaharom Nain, author of the Malaysia country report of the Reuters Institute's 2024 Digital News Report. We discuss with…
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21 min
South Africa's New Ruling Coalition
In this week's Pressing Matters, Philip See speaks to Louw Nel, Senior Political Analyst, Oxford Economics Africa about the recently concluded elections in South Africa where the i…
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20 min
Will Modi 3.0 Be Very different?
On today's Pressing Matters, Philip See speaks to Dr Rahul Mishra from University of Malaya to unpack the recent Indian general elections. Many had expected Narendra Modi and his B…
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22 min
Status Quo In Iran's Regional And Domestic Power Structure
On today's Pressing Matters, Philip speaks to Dr. Olsi Jazexhi from the Department of History at the International Islamic University Malaysia, discussing the potential ripple effe…
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21 min
Governments Are Failing Journalists
We continue our discussion on press freedom. Last week Philip See spoke to Watshlah Naidu on Malaysia’s drop in press freedom ranking and on today’s show we take a more global view…
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23 min
Malaysia's Dismal Performance In Press Freedom
On Pressing Matters, Philip See speaks to Wathshlah Naidu, Executive Director, Center for Independent Journalism to get her perspective on the recently announced results from the R…
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23 min
Bread And Butter Issues Dominate India's Election
Philip See speaks to Yanitha Meena, analyst at the Institute of Strategic and International Studies Malaysia (ISIS Malaysia) about the upcoming general election in India which will…
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25 min
Dual Rentierism Poses Challenges In Governing Palestine
Philip See speaks to Dr Anas Iqtait from the Middle East and Central Asia Studies of Australian National University to shed some light on the governance structure of the Palestinia…
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20 min
Israel And Iran Tensions Reshape Middle East Conflicts
For Pressing Matters, Philip See speaks to former US ambassador Gerald Feierstein who is currently a senior fellow on U.S. diplomacy at the Middle East Institute in Washington DC a…
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25 min
Gaza A Stark Reminder Of The Devastation Of War
On today's Pressing Matters, we continue our deep dive on how this Palestine - Isreal conflict is shaping our lives. We speak to Phyllis Bennis, a writer, activist, and political c…
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23 min
Rebuilding Palestine's Economy
Philip See speaks to Raja Khalidi, Director General of the Palestine Economic Policy Research Institute about the state of Palestine’s economy before and after the current conflict…
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17 min
WSJ Journalist Evan Gershkovich's Wrongful Detention
In today's Pressing Matters, Philip See speaks to Gordon Fairclough World Coverage Chief from the Wall Street Journal on the wrongful detention Wall Street Journal Journalist Evan…
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21 min
Vietnam's Intriguing Political Structure
On today’s Pressing Matters, Professor Dwight H. Perkins from Harvard University sheds some light on Vietnam’s political power structures and how it impacts the economic and foreig…