Breakfast with Ryan Huang, Emaad Akhtar and Audrey Siek

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): 00:32 China’s budding relationship with Russia 02:40 US President Joe Biden’s uncertainty on whether China tariffs will be lifted soon 04:16 US government suspending China-bound flights from the US 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!

Vasu Menon, Executive Director, Investment Strategy, OCBC Bank, talks about how markets will be affected by Ukraine-Russia tensions, and the pre-emptive move by the Monetary Authority of Singapore to tighten policy ahead of the April meeting.

Groundup.AI, the region’s first end-to-end sound-first AI-based predictive maintenance “operating system”, helps companies across manufacturing, construction, and maritime industries prevent unplanned downtime and reduce wastage. Leon Lim, CEO & Founder, Groundup.AI shares the difficulties industrial companies are facing in adopting AI-based predictive maintenance solutions and how a solution like Groundup.AI can be applied across the manufacturing, construction, and maritime industries. 

While SPACs have been fizzling out in the US, stock exchanges in Singapore and Hong Kong are betting the vehicles will boost their allure to global investors and startups in the region. Max Loh, EY Asean IPO Leader and Singapore and Brunei Managing Partner, Ernst & Young LLP shares more about the accounting challenges of SPACs and how the introduction of SPAC will likely further bolster IPO activity in Singapore and attract fast-growing companies and startups in South-east Asia.

In this morning's 'The Breakfast Brief', we discuss the dramatic comeback overnight on Wall Street as stock swung back from deep losses, Indonesia's to reopening of Batam, Bintan to fully vaccinated Singapore travelers, the highest priced red packets ahead of Chinese New Year, and more. 

From China’s budding relationship with Russia, US President Joe Biden’s uncertainty on whether China tariffs will be lifted soon and lastly, the US government suspending China-bound flights from the US, Tan Dawn Wei, China Bureau Chief, The Straits Times gives an analysis of it all.

Song Seng Wun, Economist, CIMB Private Banking discusses how the Bak Kwa Index helps to paint the outlook for Singapore's economy, and how the rising prices partly reflect the inflationary pressures 

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): 00:38 From pandemic to endemic? A decline of Omicron cases in the US 02:53 The US resisting World Health Organisation's proposals to make itself more independent 05:06 Virtual meeting between US President Joe Biden and Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to push back against China's efforts 07:28 US government suspends 44 China-bound flights over Covid-19 concerns 08:50 US in talks with Qatar to supply Europe with liquified natural gas if a Russian invasion of Ukraine lead to shortages 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!

The current climate has brought e-commerce to the fore, with 70 percent of the population in Southeast Asia going online, resulting in mounting pressure on logistics companies to expand their operations. Syed Ali Ridha Madihid, Co-Founder, Luwjistik shares what supply chain challenges businesses have faced over the last few years and the technological trends that are changing cross-border logistics in the region.

According to a report by WARC, new advertising spend forecasts for 100 markets worldwide show that the global ad market has largely weathered the impact of Covid-19. Ad trade is on course to reach a value of US$1trn in 2025 with more than half of this money paid to just three companies, Alphabet, Meta and Amazon. Ashik Ashokan, APAC Advisory Lead, WARC shares some of the factors that led to the stronger growth for global advertising spending and the role of the current consumer behaviour on the growth of global advertising spendings.