January 2022

Happy New Year 2022, we have decided to write a small wrap-up and say Thank You to a bunch of people who have made our website a success to date.
Special thanks goes out to the people behind Telum Media, Medianet and a bunch of publicists from Malaysia, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand, our freelancers, and contributors for sending us stories and pitches on a day by day basis which we are truly and utterly grateful for.
Just a few tiny housekeeping announcements, we have been working on a media kit and a rate card and those two items are in the final stages of editing and will be out soon.
We look forward to working with brands and companies in the coming months to help tell your stories to the masses.
We are also looking forward to doing more tech reviews, both in Malaysia and in Australia.
Going forward we won’t be publishing stories on the weekend anymore in order to concentrate on working on more long-form pieces and in-depth exclusive stories for our readers.
The 30 minutes with the DailyStraits.com podcast would continue with a minimum of one guest per month.
Besides that, we are also working on several side projects, for example, the formation of the LazyBum Skincare and Blitz Hair Oil Spray in which we document the process of starting a brand from scratch in Australia and share the journey here to our wonderful readers.
This way you will know what it takes to be an entrepreneur first-hand by reading our bespoke column “Building A Brand” which will be aired once a week.
We will try our best to be as transparent as possible and share both the good and bad experiences that we go through in taking this brand to the next level.
This is probably our most unique selling point as compared to other business websites out there as we actually walk the talk and show you entrepreneurship first-hand.
We are also looking for interns to join our crusade next year.
As we are a startup, this would be an unpaid position for now and as such, we can only accept applications from university students majoring in journalism or communications studies – who need to complete a placement as part of their course requirement.
We welcome applications from countries such as Malaysia, Singapore, New Zealand and Australia!
This position would be remote and applicants can chose to either be an online journalist or an editor with us.
We are currently accepting applications from today and this will continue till next year.
Expression of interest can be emailed to editor@dailystraits.com with the subject titled: “Internship.”
Also, our current editor Fazleena Aziz would no longer be involved in the day to day operations of this news website as she takes on a new role as a full-time journalist in another organisation in Malaysia.
Thank you for reading our site and continue supporting us in any way that you can.

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By June Ramli

Welcome to another episode of 30 minutes with DailyStraits.com. Our guest today is New Zealand-based entrepreneur Steve Pirie, the founder of Wonder & Wander. Steve is a serial entrepreneur who started working on his ventures at the tender age of 19. His naturally curious mind has led him to co-found and sell many successful businesses including Unleashed Travel (named by BRW as one of Australia’s 100 fastest growing startup businesses in 2011 and 2012), Nurture Change, Nurture Her and UnpluggedFiji.
Recently, Steve has fused his passion for events, mindset, education, travel, health and wellness at Wonder & Wander, an ecosystem created to inspire a new way of thinking and a new way of being. His company brings together innovation consulting, travel and learning.
His team collaborates with people and brands to unleash their most innovative ideas, events and experiences. Steve also offers ideation and growth strategy sessions to start-ups and established businesses in the travel, events and business space where companies hack their naturally curious mind to get ideas and connections for their business and their lives.

In this podcast, we discuss: