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2022 Taipei Indigenous Peoples Culture Festival – Indigenous Taipei, Fabulous Taipei

The People of Taipei are Invited to Share a Summer Night Filled with Indigenous Culture – Music, Dance, Performances, and Tribal Cuisine

TAIPEI, TAIWAN – Media OutReach – 20 September 2022 – As part of the 2022 Taipei Indigenous Peoples Culture Festival celebrations, Indigenous Taipei, Fabulous Taipei was held on September 17th (Saturday) in the square at the Yuanshan Flower Expo. The event featured activities such as tribe culture experiences, booths with tribal cuisine and indigenous handicrafts, as well as eight hours of exciting performances by 20 groups, bringing the citizens of Taipei a festive night of celebration for indigenous culture.

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Mayor Ko Wen-je participated in the 2022 Taipei Indigenous Peoples Culture Festival on Sep. 17, presenting the winners of the 2nd Linban Song Competition and taking pictures with TIPC’s indigenous choir.

Indigenous groups from Taipei, Tribal Colleges, university indigenous clubs, and Art Fly were invited to share music and dance performances unique to indigenous culture. Well-known indigenous celebrities were also invited to share in the festivities of the Night of Indigenous Peoples. TIPC’s indigenous choir kicked off the night, and indigenous celebrities of the likes of Rachel Liang and Dai Ai Ling also gave fantastic performances. The first indigenous Latin-rap band BOXING and hip-hop & rock-n-roll band FOCUS also demonstrated how indigenous culture can be incorporated into multiple music genres, pushing the festivities of the cultural festival to an ultimate climax.

The winners of the 2nd Linban Song Competition were also honored with awards presented by Mayor Ko Wen-je and gave live performances at the event. The event highlighted their struggles of moving to Taipei from their tribes in pursuit of a career in music, as well as the incredible work ethic that city-dwelling indigenous peoples incorporate into their daily lives.

Booths were set up around the square featuring hunting culture, indigenous cuisine, traditional weaving crafts, and culture experiences showcasing indigenous traditional knowledge. There was also a special market dedicated to traditional arts and crafts, cultural creative and agricultural products, as well as specialty indigenous cuisine – fully showcasing the irresistible appeal of indigenous culture through the five senses with an experience that transcends ethnicities, regions, language, and art. The event highlights indigenous wisdom and traditional ways of life, all the while forging Taipei into a great city that encompasses many different cultures.

This year’s event will continue until the 2023 Taiwan Lantern Festival, the theme of which will be “Light Taipei, Taipei is the Future!” in hopes of illuminating the city where dreams take flight. Indigenous people from across Taiwan will be invited to Taipei for the 2023 National Indigenous Peoples Game in March of next year. This event is an important sporting event dedicated to indigenous peoples and will help incorporate indigenous culture with city life in Taipei for greater exposure and brilliant synergy.

The Philippine Embassy in Laos Warns its Citizens Against Job Scams

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The Philippine Embassy in Laos has posted a cautionary notice on its Facebook page, notifying all Filipino citizens in the country to beware of job scams that are becoming increasingly rampant.

Lao Singer Jumps From Bridge in Apparent Suicide

Mor lam singer believed dead in Champasack
Singer Inteng Keobouala is believed to have jumped to her death from a bridge in Champasack.

A 30-year-old singer is believed to have jumped to her death from a bridge yesterday in Champasack Province, southern Laos.

Immuno Cure BioTech acquires Shanghai Teresa Healthcare

Integrating Electroporation Technology & DNA Vaccine Platforms

HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 20 September 2022 – Immuno Cure BioTech, a clinical stage biotechnology group based in the Hong Kong Science Park specialising in DNA vaccines and immunotherapies, announced today the acquisition of 92.6% of Shanghai Teresa Healthcare, the pioneer of electroporation technology and device in China. The transaction will be settled in cash and shares. Teresa’s shareholders will swap for about 1.5% equity in Immuno Cure while the inventor of Teresa’s EP technology, Professor XU Yuhong (徐宇虹), maintains her 7.4% direct equity in Teresa.

Teresa EP device delivers brief electrical pulses to promote efficient penetration of DNA vaccine through cell membrane for the enhancement of gene expression and ultimate immune responses. It is the only such device approved by National Medical Products Administration for the administration of DNA vaccine in China. Such EP technology has been an integral part of Immuno Cure’s DNA vaccine delivery strategy from research to clinical stage.

Founded in 2004, Shanghai Teresa is an innovative medical device group focusing in electro immunotherapies and rehabilitation therapies. In 2005, Teresa’s electroporation technology was developed to enhance the delivery of DNA medicine, based on the intellectual property generated by Shanghai Jiao Tong University under the National 863 Project. Such EP technology has been proven safe and efficacious after deployment of over 10,000 times in collaboration with more than thirty hospitals for the administration of DNA medicine in numerous human trial subjects.

Immuno Cure has two PD-1-Enhanced DNA vaccines currently in phase 1 clinical trial for prevention of COVID-19 and therapeutic cure of HIV/AIDS.

Dr JIN Xia, CEO of Immuno Cure said, “Immuno Cure has partnered with Teresa over the years in developing customised EP delivery strategy for our PD-1-Enhanced DNA vaccines, which has brought about encouraging results in clinical setting recently. I am pleased with this convergence with Teresa, which will no doubt bring our teams even closer together. Teresa will continue to operate independently while leveraging on Immuno Cure’s R&D platform for the development of their next generation non-invasive EP technology for intradermal delivery strategy. Immuno Cure is committed to support the continual growth and success of Teresa.”

Ms. CHEN Liye, CEO of Teresa said, “Founded on our long term collaboration, Teresa is excited to become a member of Immuno Cure Group. This move will not only provide us with a much closer R&D relationship, which is essential for our technology advancement but also offer us the financial capability to meet future needs. Teresa treasures our collaborations with other players in the field and look forward to continuing our collaborations with new and sustainable EP technology.”

Professor CHEN Zhiwei, Director of AIDS Institute at the University of Hong Kong and the Principal Scientific Advisor of Immuno Cure said, “Our research and development work at the AIDS Institute and Immuno Cure has benefitted from Teresa’s EP technology and their diligent collaborative effort over the past 12 years. I am pleased to see their relationship developing into an even closer tie. Look forward to the development of the next generation of EP technology for further optimisation of delivery strategy and patient experience.”

Dr Percy CHENG, Chairman of Immuno Cure concludes, “This transaction offers Immuno Cure the opportunity to secure Teresa’s EP technology for support of not only R&D but also the clinical administration of our PD-1-Enhanced DNA vaccines. We are pleased with Professor XU’s decision to remain as our co-investor in Teresa and are optimistic in the future of EP technology in our DNA vaccine development.”Hashtag: #ImmunoCureBiotech

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Immuno Cure BioTech

Immuno Cure BioTech is a clinical stage biotechnology group based in the Hong Kong Science Park, focusing on research and development of vaccines and immunotherapies for cancers, inflammatory and infectious diseases based on its patented PD-1-Enhanced DNA vaccine and Anti-Δ42PD1 Blocking Antibody technology platforms.

To learn more about Immuno Cure BioTech, please visit

Shanghai Teresa Healthcare

Founded in 2004, Shanghai Teresa is an innovative medical device group based in Shanghai Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park, focusing in electro immunotherapies and rehabilitation therapies.

To learn more about Shanghai Teresa Healthcare, please visit

Aruba brings Atmosphere 2022 SEATH and India to Bangkok, Thailand

SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 20 September 2022 – Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company, (NYSE:HPQ) today brings back their annual Aruba Atmosphere Conference – SEATH and India – to Bangkok, Thailand. The conference gathers business-driven companies from the region to dive into the best industry practices, drive insightful technology discussion and hone new skills around the latest updates that will help continuously modernize their networks.

Image: (Left to Right) Senior Director of Marketing at HPE Aruba, Srihari Gopinath, Head of Worldwide Sales at HPE Aruba, Alain Carpentier, Vice President, APJ at HPE Aruba, Steve Wood, Chief Technology Officer, APJ at HPE Aruba, Carlos Gomez Gallego and Director, Channel & Services, APJ at HPE Aruba, Anthony Smith.

Image: (Left to Right) Senior Director of Marketing at HPE Aruba, Srihari Gopinath, Head of Worldwide Sales at HPE Aruba, Alain Carpentier, Vice President, APJ at HPE Aruba, Steve Wood, Chief Technology Officer, APJ at HPE Aruba, Carlos Gomez Gallego and Director, Channel & Services, APJ at HPE Aruba, Anthony Smith.

Centered around three key technology principles– agility, automation and security – key executives and industry experts shed light on Aruba’s always-on innovations. Static networks no longer meet growing business demands or support changing security requirements. As enterprises embark on digital transformation initiatives and adapt to hybrid work environments, it is highly encouraged that they adopt a modern network architecture. This creates a seamless and secure connection for companies of all sizes to facilitate their core business functions from anywhere.

  • Agility: The increasing ease in adopting network-as-a-service (NaaS), to drive future-ready unified, cloud-native, standards-based architecture and optimise budget and staffing resources.
  • Automation​: Achieving simplified workflows and AI-powered automation to reduce time and resources required to plan, deploy, and manage networks that support remote, branch, campus, and cloud connectivity​.
  • Security: Importance of the increased threat detection and protection by tapping zero trust and SASE frameworks, utilizing built-in identity-based access control and Dynamic Segmentation

As-a-service solutions are going through a global boom coupled with the proliferation of hybrid work environments, and HPE GreenLake for Aruba is transforming the way enterprises work. From enabling enterprises to swiftly deploy critical use cases such as – hybrid work, connected retail and hybrid learning to ensuring the network is always ready to support an enterprise’s needs – HPE GreenLake keeps up pace with the speed of business.

“With the new normal being defined by hybrid cloud strategies, emerging IoT environments and remote work, achieving connectivity is key in today’s disconnected world, said Steve Wood, Vice President, APJ at Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company. “We know that making connections anywhere, anytime has become imperative now more than ever, and with a focus on network modernisation – enterprises that prioritise digital transformation and acceleration will be able to address the tough challenges that come with network orchestration, management and security to eventually drive business growth.”

In addition, to deliver the highest quality of experience for customers, employees and IT teams, the transformation of WAN and security architectures with a unified Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) fabric, one that enables organizations to architect a Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) is crucial.

Recently, the Aruba EdgeConnect Enterprise SD-WAN platform also received the ICSA Labs Secure SD-WAN Certification – the first in the SD-WAN market to attain the certification. The certification underscores Aruba’s SD-WAN and security capabilities as top in the industry, offering customers flexibility and confidence in achieving key network and security transformation.

Aruba’s comprehensive portfolio of solutions brings enterprise networking to the home with network edge continuing to evolve to meet consumers demands being – always-on connectivity and security. For instance, with EdgeConnect Microbranch, IT departments can ensure each employee’s experience is consistent no matter where they are located by delivering the full range of on-campus connectivity services to remote workers, accelerating troubleshooting, and maintaining corporate protections by seamlessly extending on-campus Zero Trust and Secure Access Services Edge (SASE) security frameworks to the home office/small office.

Expanding it further, Aruba rolled out the first self-locating wireless infrastructure and the Open Locate initiative to standardize methods for sharing location information. With Aruba’s self-locating APs, enterprises and service providers will be able to deliver location-aware applications more quickly, accurately, and at scale across the entire wireless LAN footprint, eliminating the need for costly and error-prone manual surveys.

What customers say?

“We had to drive a high-level digital transformation initiative in Asia Pacific and aimed to build a zero trust network to maximize cloud utilization and strengthen IT infrastructure and security. Our network required a modern, agile network architecture, and our legacy MPLS network was not viable to spearhead change,” said Irwan Yulianto, GM of IT at Panasonic. “Our deployment of the Aruba EdgeConnect SD-WAN solution has become a key enabler of our digital journey, building the foundation of our zero trust network and empowering us to ensure always-on performance from the edge to the cloud. We now have complete, single-pane, network visibility for ease of management and we are certainly on our way to realizing the full promise of the cloud.”

As a leading managed service provider in Thailand, our customers cover all industries including core infrastructure providers. It is instrumental that we are able to empower our geographically distributed customers with a high-performing solution,” said Sunti Medhavikul, Managing Director at UIH. “Automation sits at the heart of our tech partnership consideration as we manage our customers’ complex network requirements. Deploying the cloud-native Aruba Central management platform was key in our customers’ digital projects as it could effectively scale very large and distributed networks. With our technology partnership with Aruba, we have the ability today to modernize our customers’ networks with strict adherence to service level agreements and grow with them.”

Sponsors of the Atmosphere 2022 SEATH & India include global technology leaders and innovators AMD Pensando, Check Point, Netskope, Zebra, BT, Ekahau,TechData, VSTECS and Westcon.

Atmosphere 2022 SEATH & India is held from 20th September till 21st September in Bangkok, Thailand.

Hashtag: #Aruba

About Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company

Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, is the global leader in secure, intelligent edge-to-cloud networking solutions that use AI to automate the network, while harnessing data to drive powerful business outcomes. With Aruba ESP (Edge Services Platform) and as-a-service options, Aruba takes a cloud-native approach to helping customers meet their connectivity, security, and financial requirements across campus, branch, data center, and remote worker environments, covering all aspects of wired, wireless LAN, and wide area networking (WAN).

To learn more, visit Aruba at . For real-time news updates, follow Aruba on and , and for the latest technical discussions on mobility and Aruba products, visit the Airheads Community at .

Tourism Revenue in Thailand to Reach 80% of pre-COVID Level in 2023

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According to the Thai government, tourism revenue would reach THB 2.38 trillion (USD 64.5 billion) next year, which is 80% of the pre-pandemic times. THB 1.5 trillion is expected to come from foreign travelers and the rest from domestic tourists.

Europe’s favourite little healthy drinks innocent® has finally arrived in Hong Kong

Intro-juicing 5 tasty recipes, packed with 100% natural goodness from real fruits. Never added sugars, and no other nonsense

HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 20 September 2022 – Since 1999, innocent® has been on a quest to get healthy drinks into everyone’s hands. Currently drunk in Europe across 32 countries, 5 tasty recipes will now be available in town. Our drinks are made from responsibly sourced fruits from all around the world, and hand-delivered to you in Hong Kong, with the promise of no added sugars, artificial sweeteners, preservatives or other nonsense – only 100% natural goodness.

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Real fruits (with its bits and bobs) only the good stuff

innocent® has arrived at the harbour with 5 of our tastiest recipes, blended with the best fruit we could find, sourced from all around the world – mangoes from India, oranges from Brazil, strawberries from Spain. We always make sure to source fruit from sustainable sources, that are fair to the people who grow them and the planet they’re grown on.

Every little bottle is packed with real fruit, without any added sugars, sweeteners, preservatives or concentrates. That’s why each bottle is filled with the fruits’ original nutrients – chunky bits, fibre, natural sugars and chock-full of vitamins, so you can just drink your fruits.

Orange juice

We squeezed some oranges and bottled all of its sweet, zesty juice and all of nature’s intended goodness – the bits, the fibre, and tons of Vitamin C. And an instant teleportation to the Brazilian orange groves.

Apple juice

We pressed approximately 1½ whole apples into this little bottle, which is why it’s looking a little cloudy. That’s also why it tastes just like real apples too – light, sweet and crisp in every mouthful.

Strawberries & banana smoothie

Strawberries that drink less water, and Rainforest Alliance approved bananas come together perfectly in this delicious recipe. Every mouthful is full of real fruit, vitamins and fibre.

Mango & passion fruits smoothie

We crushed the King of Mangoes “Alphonso” with Ecuadorian passion fruits into one bottle to make a drink that’s as tropical as a desert island, but a lot less sandy.

Apple, kiwi & lime smoothie

What goes well with tangy kiwi? Crisp apple, sweet pineapple, sharp citrus and kiwi all crushed into a bottle of joy. For those who prefer their smoothies banana-less. We’ve got you.

Little drinks, big dreams

innocent® is committed to doing things the right way, for healthier communities, a better planet – and leaving the world a little better than we found it.

Since day one, innocent® has given 10% of the company’s annual profits to charity. In 2004, the innocent foundation was born and we started to fund projects to help the world’s hungry. From developing newer forms of sustainable packaging, to helping our farmers develop more efficient ways of sourcing and farming our fruits. We even built one of the world’s first carbon-neutral factories, fondly called ‘the blender’, that will move us closer towards our goal of being carbon neutral by 2025.

innocent® juices and smoothies are available at selected PARKnSHOP, FUSION, INTERNATIONAL, TASTE x FRESH, TASTE, FOOD LE PARC, selected Wellcome Supermarket and Lifestyle Supermarkets, Market Place by Jasons, HKTVmall, pandamart, and more.

Europes favourite healthy little drinks

Began in 1999 in England, now sold across 32 countries. No.1 smoothie in Europe.

100% natural goodness

Real fruits, 100% sourced from nature. Never added sugars, additives or other nonsense.

Good for you, better for the planet

innocent® only uses sustainably farmed fruits – helping our farmers and leaving the world a better place than we found it.

Hashtag: #innocenthongkong #innocentdrinks #innocentdrinkshk #freshinthecity #naturalgoodness #sustainability #sustainablefarming

About innocent®

innocent® is Europe’s leading healthy drinks brand. Launched in 1999, the business has grown from a small West London start-up, to a multi-faceted business now present in over 30 markets across the world, including the UAE, Singapore, Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong.

Our range of drinks grew with us to include smoothies, super smoothies, not-from-concentrate juices, innocent plus, juice shots, dairy alternatives, refreshing coconut water and bubbles: our lightly sparkling fruit juices.

As a B-Corp, we’re committed to being a force for good and give 10% of our profits to people and the planet. We’ve pledged to be carbon neutral by 2025 and we just built the blender: one of the first super sustainable carbon-neutral factories in the world.

To follow us on our journey to being good all round, head over to

Drunk Driver Cause of That Luang Pileup

Drunk driver cause of accident at That Luang intersection.

Police have confirmed that an accident in Vientiane Capital involving five motorbikes and two cars last Friday has been attributed to a drunk driver.