Back after a 2 week hiatus where Mr Soh was breaking the 5,000m National Record (14:36.22) and winning the hot and hilly SCORE Half Marathon (1:11:52)!

Welcoming Dr Ong Kian Ming as our first POLITICIAN on the pod. A former deputy minister in Malaysia and an avid runner, Dr Ong breaks down the Malaysian road running scene with us, including this past weekend's SCORE Marathon.

About Dr Ong:

Ong Kian Ming is a Malaysian politician and lecturer. He served as the Deputy Minister of International Trade and Industry in Mahathir Mohamad's seventh cabinet from July 2018 to February 2020, and was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bangi from May 2018 to November 2022, and Serdang from May 2013 to May 2018.

Prior to joining politics, Ong was a senior lecturer at the UCSI University and a prominent political analyst, whose articles were published in news portals such as Malaysiakini, Malaysian Insider and The Edge.

Ong, a Fulbright scholar, holds a doctorate in political science from Duke University. He also has a master's degree in economics from Cambridge University and a bachelor's degree in economics from the London School of Economics. He completed his O- and A-levels at the Raffles Institution and Raffles Junior College in Singapore respectively, where he was a Raffles cross country runner.