International Literacy Day 2020

Tay Sue Yen, Teach For Malaysia alumni & co-founder & Executive Director, MyReaders

08-Sep-20 14:00

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It’s International Literacy Day today! We discuss what this day is all about, and talk to an expert on the challenges faced by organisations running literacy programmes during the Movement Control Order.

Image Source: Shutterstock

Produced by: Dashran Yohan

Presented by: Lim Sue Ann, Sharmilla Ganesan & Dashran Yohan

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Categories: Education, Personal Development, Social Issues

Tags: The Bigger Picture, The Daily Digest, International Literacy Day, books, literature, reading, literacy programmes,

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11:00 AM

Best of Enterprise

(REPEAT) Joey Yap, renowned for his business around Chinese metaphysics shares why he’s pivoting into business events.

12:00 PM

BBC World Service

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1:00 PM

A Bit of Culture

(REPEAT) Dhanya Nair and Sudais Ferhard join Kam Raslan as they talk about protecting your peace, disaster paranoia and movies that are now unbearable!

2:00 PM

Ringgit & Sense

(REPEAT) Linnet Lee, licensed financial planner, speaks on some of the the psychological and emotional difficulties that some people might face after retirement.

2:30 PM

The Property Show

(REPEAT) Entomologist Lim Say Piau and Malaysian Pest Management Association President Regine Lim explain why mosquitoes are drawn to certain properties and how to keep them away.

3:00 PM

Best of The Bigger Picture

(REPEAT) New York Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani is defying the odds. What can progressives around the world learn from him about grassroots organizing and crafting a narrative?

4:00 PM

Best of Evening Edition

(REPEAT) As geopolitical rivalry intensifies between two superpowers, will smaller countries like Malaysia have to choose a side? We get into it with Thomas Daniel and Danial Rahman.

5:00 PM

BBC World Service

This episode of People Fixing The World looks at the efforts that are being made to make the streets in Cairo safer.

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