Your Money with Michelle Martin

At Changi Exhibition Centre owned by SME Experia Events, 15,000 solar panels will be installed on the roof-top, in a long-term agreement with Sembcorp Industries. Whe completed in November 2019, the solar energy system is expected to produce over 7,800 megawatt hours of power annually or enough renewable energy to power more than 1,750 four-room HDB flats for a year. It will also help to avoid over 3.2 million kilograms of carbon dioxide emissions a year, which is equivalent to the emissions avoided from taking around 715 cars off the road. Leck Chet Lam, Managing Director of Experia Events Pte Ltd shares more. 

Are retailers in Taiwan looking at crypto for payment systems? Are crypto assets viewed as marginal in Asia or is that changing?  Michelle Martin, as she speaks with Wong Joon Ian, Managing Director, CoinDesk about the future of money and gets heads up about a new dollar backed "stable" coin to be issued by Paxos, the New York-based exchange and digital coin issuer and crypto exchange Binance that's expected at the upcoming InvestAsia 2019. 

William Wongso, Indonesia's famous culinary expert shares how he handles being a chef despite having Type 2 diabetes and how going keto has helped him.

Is property still a great way to grow your wealth in Singapore? Having a BTO flat was extremely important for our parents’ generation because it was key to their first pot of wealth. But is this still the case for us today?  Mohamed Ismail Gafoor, Chairman and CEO of Propnex Limited - Singapore’s largest real estate agency group - shares more.

The next time you land and find your bags have not, don't worry! Changi Airport's services and ground handling firm SATS’ ‘Ready To Travel’ 2.0 app allows its passengers to keep track of and find their lost bags in any country in the world with its new baggage location service. If your bags are not found after 96 hours, you will receive payouts of between $1,100 and $2,200 per bag. What’s more, you get access to over 400 airport lounges worldwide in nearly 100 countries. Keith Loke, Head of Marketing & Business Development for SATS, Consumer Services shares more. 

Their web comic makes finance understandable for everyone! Join Michelle Martin, as she speaks with He Ruiming and Goh Wei Choon of The Woke Salaryman, about not staying broke, getting out of student debt and how to change perspectives on money ( so you have can have more).

According to the UN’s 2019 State of Food Security & Nutrition in the World research, some 820 million people did not have enough food to eat in 2018, up from 811 million in 2017 and represents the third consecutive year of increase, with over 513 million of those hungry people calling Asia home. In a move to address this global problem, CropLife Asia - a non-profit society part of a global federation representing the plant science industry - has partnered with the US-ASEAN Business Council and EU-ASEAN Business Council in 2019 to form the ‘ASEAN Safe, Nutritious Food Alliance’. What can we do to solve this global problem? Dr. Siang Hee Tan, Executive Director of CropLife Asia shares more.

Join Michelle Martin, as she speaks with Kim Iskyan, Global Investment Analyst, Stansberry Pacific Research, about the latest developments of the ongoing US-China Trade War and the implications they have on stock trading in the Asia-Pacific Region.

According to the Economic Intelligence Unit’s - or EIU - 2019 Global Liveability Index, financial hubs like London, New York and Singapore did not fare well in a survey of the world's most pleasant cities to live in. Singapore slipped three places to 40th spot, behind Hong Kong at 38th place, but still ahead of big cities like London at No. 48 and New York at No. 58. Vienna took the top spot for the second year running, at 99.1 out of 100 - an almost perfect score. The EIU’s Worldwide Cost of Living Report also showed that Singapore is also the world’s most expensive city for the fifth year in a row. Meanwhile, the EIU's Safe Cities Index revealed that Singapore has retained its position as the world’s second safest city, after Tokyo. Pamela Qiu, Director of The Economist Corporate Network, South-East Asia breaks down the findings. 

Entrepreneur Lynn Tan, Managing Director of Ales Group Singapore Pte Ltd started her business armed with belief in her product and a $50 000 loan from an uncle. She's grown a one-woman show to a thriving business with 80 staff and S$15 million annual turnover in less than 10 years.She tells Michelle Martin how changing her business model mid-way was part of the evolution of her brand story.