Breakfast with Ryan Huang, Emaad Akhtar and Audrey Siek

Businesses are making efforts to employ more sustainable methods to combat climate change. With Singapore’s scarcity of space, how can we instead capitalize our advantages to overcome these challenges? Also, how can AI assist businesses’ move to a more sustainable future.  The Breakfast Huddle speaks to David R. Hardoon, Managing Director, Aboitiz Data Innovation about this.

In this morning's TheBreakfast Brief we discuss Alphabet reporting a first-quarter revenue that fell short of analysts’ expectations, their announcement of a $70 billion share buyback program and Microsoft slightly outperforming as its shares still struggled to rise. 

How will the global economy cope with the downward trend of the Malaysian ringgit and Indonesia’s surprise ban on palm oil exports? Also, could Paetongtarn Shinawatra, the youngest daughter of former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra be the next PM? To give us an analysis of those headlines and more, we have Leslie Lopez, Regional Correspondent, The Straits Times  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/

Gary Dugan, CEO, The Global CIO Office, discusses how to position around Chinese markets amid fears of a Shanghai-style lockdown in Beijing. 

According to an IDC's 2021 manufacturing insights survey, 76 percent of Asia Pacific manufacturers are not expecting to invest in Operational Technology (OT) security over the next two years. So why is the manufacturing sector forgetting this aspect of security for their business? What can the sector do to address this?  Jonathan Chin, Business Development Manager for Cybersecurity Operational Technology, Fortinet helps us address this.

In this morning's The Breakfast Brief, we discuss Elon Musk clinching the deal to buy Twitter for US$44 billion cash and the reactions to the news. 

Modern investing and online trading is heavily influenced by social media. In this day and age, what are new perspectives and issues surrounding Big Tech and Meme stocks? How do we cope with these changes.   The Breakfast Huddle speaks to Luke Lim, Managing Director, PhillipCapital, about this.

There are many unanswered questions surrounding China. How serious will the impacts of the potential lockdown of Beijing be? How will their security cooperation pact with The Solomon Islands affect international relations? Lastly, how will China fare in its attempts to help Sri Lanka through their economic crisis? To give us an analysis of those headlines we have on the line Tan Dawn Wei, China Bureau Chief, The Straits Times 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/