00:05 - The government has set up a Debt Management Office, to help formulate strategies to reduce the government's RM 1.1 trillion debt and liability burden.

04:50 - The Human Resources Ministry's move to broker a deal with Japan to send over skilled manual labourers, has received some pushback from the public. For more insights, we speak to Dr. Niaz Asadullah, Professor of Economics at Universiti of Malaya, and Southeast Asia Lead of the Global Labour Organisation.

Presented by: Lyn Mak, Sharidz Abdullah, Khoo Hsu Chuang

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