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Local property portal MOGUL.sg raises S$9m in its first Series A

SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 15 November 2022 – MOGUL.sg, a homegrown AI-driven property portal, has raised S$9 million in its first-ever funding round.

The lead investor is Nech Capital, a Singapore-based alternative investment management company that invests in both public and private equities, including SMEs and start-ups.

Gerald Sim, CEO and founder of Mogul.sg

Gerald Sim, CEO and founder of Mogul.sg

Gerald Sim, CEO, and founder of MOGUL.sg said: “Here at MOGUL.sg, it has always been our aim to improve users’ experience in the property search. We have been consistently adding features to our website, so that users – be they buyers, sellers, agents, or real estate developers, can improve their productivity with the tools provided. With this aim in mind, we were careful in the selection of incoming investors during this Series A round. We are delighted to welcome our new partners who will not only help us fund the development of more useful features, but also value-add in their own ways to support our push towards reinventing the entire real estate transaction journey.”

With the funding, MOGUL.sg is looking to add more features to their website’s 3D map such as indoor mapping and navigation while providing additional data to users that will help them better understand the surroundings and derive more accurate valuations of the properties that banks will adopt readily.

Eventually, MOGUL.sg wants to empower users with the ability to directly transact property on the platform. This will encompass features such as online viewing of property (external, internal, shadow casting), valuation, conveyancing (via online mode), and online application of the mortgage.

Since the start of 2022, MOGUL.sg has seen a 20% growth among active and new users. Following the positive adoption rate, the Singapore company behind this portal has decided to start its first fundraising in June this year to expand its technology offering to users. Given its good business revenue over the past years and partially self-funded by its owners, it met with great enthusiasm from investors locally and abroad who wanted to be part of the new-generation portal, leading to an oversubscription of the rights to be issued. The business has seen an increase in revenue from property developers and agencies who have placed orders with Mogul to develop 3D models of new residential properties to be displayed on the 3D map.

MOGUL.sg started with the aim to make property search smarter using their custom keywords search algorithm, which was developed in-house, by gathering geospatial data from several sources, including authoritative platforms such as OneMap. Their library of over 5,000 custom keywords caters to a refined search that describes the characteristics of the property that the users are searching for. Keywords such as “East-West Line”, “Park”, “Primary School”, “And Balcony” among others, can be used to refine the search results, enabling users to learn about amenities in the neighbourhood and understand what they are signing up for before purchasing or renting the property.

Early this year, MOGUL.sg rolled out an interactive 3D map in its property search portal to support searches with an immersive experience to help prospective home buyers visualize the properties and their surrounding areas better. They can see whether the property encounters any view obstructions caused by nearby buildings, check whether the property has an unblocked view of the sea, and even the exact direction of the sun at various times of the day.

These features have attracted residential developers such as Guocoland, Victory Land, and Amara Holdings to include their yet-to-be-constructed upcoming new projects on MOGUL.sg’s 3D map so that potential buyers are able to view and examine the projects prior to purchase. Property agencies, including PropertyLim Brothers and OrangeTee, have also been quick to adopt MOGUL.sg’s 3D map to provide their clients with more information of the properties, thus improving the sales experience.

Hashtag: #MOGUL.sg

ABOUT MOGUL.SG

Launched in 2018, MOGUL.sg is a Singapore property search portal designed to reinvent the entire real estate journey for buyers, sellers, and agents. With its tagline of “Reinventing Real Estate”, MOGUL.sg aims to make property searches easy with smart keywords, property tagging, and a specially curated agent concierge team to assist homeowners. It is also the first property portal in Singapore to launch a full vector-based 3D map of Singapore.

MOGUL.sg has over 6,000 registered housing agents using the portal and facilitated over $50 million of real estate transactions on its website since its launch. MOGUL.sg has also collaborated with leading real estate developers such as Guoco, Keppel Land, Far East, The Four Seasons, and Capital Land in their property developments.

Cambodian PM Hun Sen Tests Covid Positive After ASEAN Summit

Cambodian PM Hun Sen at the 2022 ASEAN Summit.

On Tuesday Morning, the PM announced on his social media that he tested positive for Covid-19 in Indonesia, where he had just arrived to be part of the G20 summit as the ASEAN chair.  

IPO of 6-year-old “Future Food” startup – BASE FOOD, Inc.

HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 15 November 2022 – BASE FOOD, Inc., a Japan-based food-tech company, went public on 15th November 2022 after six years since it was established, and is now listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

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BASE FOOD products, typified by BASE BREAD, combine natural ingredients such as soybean and whole-wheat flour to achieve the perfect nutritional balance without sacrificing taste and texture.

33 kinds of nutrients necessary for the human body are contained in a well-balanced manner.

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The company was founded by Shun Hashimoto, a former IT worker without any background in bread making and food industry. He came up with the idea of staple food containing every necessary nutrition when he did not have time to access a healthy diet due to busy working days. He tried his idea by starting to make noodles at home combining tens of natural ingredients to achieve perfect balance of nutrition.

The concept of “a complete nutritional diet” has been accepted by more and more people in Japan, and BASE FOOD, Inc. has sold more than 50 million bags of BASE FOOD products and acquired over 140,000 monthly active subscribers as of October 2022.

After the IPO, the company will invest more in research and development to produce better products and expand its business to overseas markets, in order to realize its mission “to reinvent staple food to make a healthy and sustainable lifestyle accessible to all”.

The products have potential of addressing both hunger and food satiation, as a result of which is especially lifestyle diseases.

BASE BREAD is already available in Hong Kong on HKTVmall. It will be directly shipped from Japan.

HKTV mall link: https://www.hktvmall.com/hktv/zh/main/BASE-FOOD-Inc-/s/H9748001

*1 meal, equivalent of 1 pack of BASE PASTA, 2 packs of BASE BREAD, or 4 packs of BASE Cookies, contains more than ⅓ of the baseline of all nutrients defined in the Japanese Nutrient Reference Value , except for fat, saturated fatty acid, carbohydrates, sodium and n-6 fatty acid whose overconsumption is concerned.

Hashtag: #basefood_hk

About BASE FOOD, Inc.

BASE FOOD, Inc. has been producing and selling complete food* “BASE FOOD” containing all 33 kinds of nutrients such as protein and dietary fiber as well as 26 types of vitamins/minerals since 2017. Both nutritional balance and deliciousness are kept by original recipe and blending technology besides usage of more than ten kinds of well-selected ingredients such as soybean, whole-wheat flour, and Chia seed.

Establishment : 5th April 2016
Founder and CEO: Shun Hashimoto
Head Quarter: 5-25-2, Nakameguro, Meguro, Tokyo, JAPAN, 153-0061
Website:

Graphisoft Announces Strategic Partnership with IME Technology Sdn Bhd to Accelerate BIM Coverage in Malaysia

KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA – Media OutReach – 15 November 2022 – Graphisoft, the leading Building Information Modelling (BIM) software solutions provider for architecture and engineering, today announces a strategic partnership with IME Technology Sdn Bhd. This partnership will meet the growing demand for integrated digital architectural software solution delivery in Malaysia.

Strategic Partnership between Graphisoft and IME Technology Sdn Bhd
Strategic Partnership between Graphisoft and IME Technology Sdn Bhd

Graphisoft empowers teams of building professionals with advanced technology and accompanying expertise to design and deliver great buildings with award-winning software. Archicad offers a complete end-to-end design and documentation workflow for architectural and engineering practices of any size. Archicad users can drive the design narrative on the building site for faster and specific client feedback with BIMx, a popular mobile and web BIM app that extends the BIM experience to include all stakeholders in the building design, delivery, and operations lifecycle. Architects and engineers in Malaysia will benefit from Graphisoft’s integrated approach to BIM workflow optimization.

Robert Samuel, Sales Director of Graphisoft Asia Pacific, commented, “Graphisoft’s vision is to bring BIM into widespread practice for the design and construction of buildings in Malaysia via model-based workflow integration. I believe, together with IME Technology Sdn Bhd, we can deliver holistic architectural software solutions with personalized technical support, role-specific training programs, and high-quality services to better support the Malaysian AEC market.”

“We are extremely excited to be appointed by Graphisoft as a strategic partner to accelerate BIM implementation in Malaysia, providing architects, designers, engineers, and urban planners with an integrated digital solution to efficiently deliver their projects. With our expertise and knowledge in this space, we are confident that our clients will get the most out of Graphisoft solutions and we are committed to helping architectural practices with the aim of making better buildings through better BIM,” said CW Lau, SVP at IME Technology Sdn Bhd. “The success of the product is reflected in the number of successful projects completed with Archicad, including the world’s second tallest building, Merdeka 118 in Kuala Lumpur.”

Hashtag: #Graphisoft

About Graphisoft

Graphisoft empowers teams to design and deliver great buildings through award-winning software solutions, learning programs, and professional services for the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction industries. Graphisoft is part of the Nemetschek Group. To learn more, visit .

About IME Technology Sdn Bhd

IME Technology is a member of IME Group of companies, a local institution supporting industry and academia with world-class advanced Design and Manufacturing solutions since 1980. IME Technology specialises in 3D CAD Design, CAM (Machining), CAE (FEA Simulation) and now expands its expertise in ERP and MES. To learn more, visit .

Laos Ranks Fourth at Cyber SEA Game 2022

The Lao team at the Cyber SEA Game in Bangkok.

The Cyber SEA Game was recently held in Bangkok, Thailand, and the Lao team put up quite an impressive performance in the competition.  

South Korean Company Authorized to Build Multi-Billion Dollar Resort

Photo credit: Champa Post

Laos has signed an agreement with a South Korean company giving it a concession for the use of a 1,200-hectare plot of land to build a resort worth USD 2.9 billion.

Blue Ocean Daily Festival—Taitung County Government’s New Event Successfully Revitalizes Local Marine Recreation Industry; Promoting Smart Tourism and Continuing to Foster a Blue Ocean Lifestyle Under Taitung’s Slow Economy

TAITUNG, TAIWAN – Media OutReach – 14 November 2022 – In recent years, the Taitung County Government has been refining the county’s “Sea is Life” outlook. Providing opportunities in and around water has aided and enabled the county government’s marine culture education and aquatic recreational activity expansion efforts.

2022 marked the initial launch of the Blue Ocean Daily festival. The 5-week event aimed to provide tourists and tourism operators with recreational water activities. It was only recently the festival has come to a fitting end after offering a total of 22 Austronesian-themed maritime activities with local schools, tribes and industry associations.

Jinzun Village and Flowing Lake are currently being built up as hubs to spread awareness of recreational aquatic activities and marine culture education. By means of providing county residents and tourists more aquatic activity diversity, both hubs follow three ideals: embracing, engaging and knowing the sea. Furthermore, with the partnership with the Kimokeo Foundation from Hawaii, the recent new addition and integration of Shanyuan Bay has garnered much international exposure.

The inaugural Blue Ocean Daily Festival’s significance lies in its cultural roots search, as well as meaningful international exchanges. The Taitung County Government invited Kimokeo Kapahulehua (also known as Uncle K), well-known throughout Hawaii for his preservation efforts of Hawaiian culture, to build off the year’s prior establishment of the Taiwan Outrigger Canoe Club (TOCC). The club brought ethnic Taiwanese Hawaiians athletes to Taitung for their natural affinity toward reconnecting with their mutual ancestors.

Uncle K introduced the Hawaiian outrigger canoe to Taitung and the important role it played during the Austronesian migration period. County residents were then able to know the canoes and experience them up-close during one of the eight classes Uncle K hosted during the festival.

The Haiiwan native also did a first for Taiwan—performing a long-distance sail in an Outrigger Canoe in Taiwan’s waters. Kapahulehua and his crew set sail from Shanyuan Bay to traditional waters of the Torik Tribe, effectively reenacting the historical setting of using boats as means to maintain friendly relations between Austronesian communities.

During the welcoming ceremony, before coming ashore, a conch shell trumpet was prepared and blown to announce the Hawaiian crew had arrived by canoe, then, the on-shore Torik Tribe responded with a bamboo bugle horn to greet the Hawaiians ashore. This marks a meaningful milestone for the Blue Ocean Daily Festival so that the festival may continue to carry on the spirit of its unique cultural heritage.

The Blue Ocean Daily Festival in addition to facilitating exchanges between international organizations, local tribes and academic institutions, it’s also the starting point in which marine creation and community revitalization occurs. The county government is also committed to developing smart tourism.

4K video feeds have been installed at three locations in Jinlun, Fugang, and Huayuan and will soon be made available for public access online. The zero-latency broadcasts enable the public easy access to Taitung’s beauty and can marvel at it anytime, anywhere. In the future, the county government also expects to launch online ecology education and tours to develop its intertidal zone-themed content that is not limited by time and space.

Taiwan is believed by some experts to be where the Austronesian language family originated, according to the Taitung County Government. There are seven indigenous groups in Taitung County, making it the most culturally diverse county in Taiwan. Moreover, Taitung is blessed with rich marine resources, with a 249-kilometer coastline including the county’s outlying islands, which when totaled together, is the longest coastline in the nation. The county also has rare deep ocean water (DOW) and underwater hot springs, which can only be found in few places on Earth. The unique geographical environment and rich cultural heritage makes the county well positioned for development within the marine recreation industry.

In the future, the county government will continue to connect with the international community through the Blue Ocean Daily Festival and promote the revitalization of marine themed tourism and community development to achieve its vision of sustainable development of the local marine recreation industry.

FoodSmart Conference and Expo for the Food and Beverage Trade 2022

Promoted smart food waste treatment to foster a sustainable F&B industry
Secretary for Environment and Ecology encouraged cross-sector collaboration to address food waste issues

HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 14 November 2022 – FoodSmart Conference and Expo for the Food and Beverage Trade 2022 cum ECF Source Separation and Collection of Food Waste for the Food & Beverage (F&B) Trade and EPD Pilot Scheme on Food Waste Collection Award Ceremony were successfully concluded at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre on 14 November 2022. The theme-based seminars and discussions sessions were broadly supported by the F&B and environmental sectors. Corporate delegates shared not only the best practices and relevant innovation in food waste management, but also walked the audience through the latest development of sustainable food, artificial intelligence technologies, environmentally friendly tableware, and health and safe environment, etc. The wide range of new knowledge and new technologies disseminated at the event would help the F&B trade enhance its competitivity while achieving environmental excellence and sustainability.

Mr. Tse Chin-wan, Secretary for Environment and Ecology appreciate the efforts of the F&B trade in promoting food waste recycling

Invited to officiate the ECF Source Separation and Collection of Food Waste for the Food & Beverage (F&B) Trade and EPD Pilot Scheme on Food Waste Collection Award Ceremony, Mr. Tse Chin-wan, the Secretary for Environment and Ecology of the HKSAR Government presented over 300 participating organisations with certificates of appreciation. The certificates are a recognition to the trade’s active delivery of social and environmental responsibilities through taking part in food waste recycling. He also took the opportunity to encourage the trade to continue to render strong support to the Government in promoting waste reduction in the community with a view to building together a greener and more liveable Hong Kong that cherishes resources for achieving carbon neutrality.

Mr. Simon Ka-wo Wong, Convenor of the FoodSmart Partnership Programme thanked food waste collection participants during his opening remarks at the award ceremony. He said, “The FoodSmart Partnership Programme has been committed to providing the industry with environment management recommendations and guidance on food waste reduction since its inception in 2018. This platform has helped the F&B trade formulate food waste reduction measures and carry out separation at source. We have kicked off a programme to recycle and separate food wastes, and arranged transportation of collected food wastes to O‧PARK 1 for free.” Wong wishes the programme to continue to act as a communication channel for the sector and the government, through which the trade’s views on separation at source and food waste recycling could be reflected to support the ECF and EPD schemes. By doing so, the trade could contribute more to lessen the burden of the landfills and towards a brighter and greener Hong Kong.

In his opening remarks for the Hong Kong Productivity, an organiser of the ECF Source Separation and Collection of Food Waste for the Food & Beverage (F&B) trade initiative, Mr Mohamed D. Butt, Executive Director of HKPC said, “HKPC has been collaborating with the trade in the FoodSmart Partnership Programme since 2018. To improve the efficiency of local food waste management, we also work with Hong Kong Waste Association on the initiative of Source Separation and Collection of Food Waste for the Food & Beverage trade. We have been supporting the trade with the technical knowhow and suggestions on producing less food waste, as well as on separating them. Suitably sized and various types of equipment for separation are also provided to help with separation. The collected waste has been sent to O‧PARK1 for free. Every year, the food waste processed at O.PARK1 can provide electricity for more than 3,000 Hong Kong families. On top of these, we are leveraging our expertise in technology and innovation to offer technical assistance to the trade. A good example is “Food TranSmarter”, the food waste conversion system developed by HKPC to offer simple, clean and hygienic solution to the collection and shipping of food waste. In response to the government’s requirements, HKPC is always dedicated to foster public engagement, technology innovation and re-industrialisation, such that the food waste problem can be tackled with a full-chain solution and all-round technology and services. Going forward, HKPC will continue to support the government’s waste reduction measures and join up with the trade to manage Hong Kong’s food waste problem to promote green and sustainable development.”

Source Separation and Collection of Food Waste for the Food & Beverage (F&B) Trade

To promote waste reduction and separation at source for recycling in the industry, the FoodSmart Partnership Programme (FSPP) was organised by The Association for Hong Kong Catering Services Management Ltd, Association of Restaurant Managers, Chamber of Food & Beverage Industry of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Federation of Restaurants & Related Trades, and Institute of Dining Professionals. The programme is also jointly supported by the Environmental Protection Department, the Food Wise Hong Kong Campaign and the Hong Kong Productivity Council. Under the FSPP banner, the “ECF Source Separation and Collection of Food Waste for the Food & Beverage (F&B) Trade” initiative was rolled out to provide participants with technical advice and support on reduction and source separation of food waste, including free, suitably sized, and different types of food waste recycling equipment. Food waste collected from eateries are transported for free to O·PARK1 in Siu Ho Wan every day for turning the waste into energy/resources. Using smart and cloud-based data systems to support recycling transport, the initiative has developed district-specific diversion routes for the recycling sector to improve its operation efficiency. Besides, the Environmental Protection Department (EPD) had launched the Pilot Scheme on Food Waste Collection in 2018, focusing on setting out the main collection and transport operation logistics for the food waste generated by the C&I and public premises. A larger scale Pilot Scheme was subsequently launched in September 2021 to serve the food waste collection needs of more participating private and public organisations. The EPD is also expanding this service to recycle domestic food waste on a trial basis. At present, about 140 tonnes of food waste is transported to O‧PARK1 and transformed into energy every day. Some of the food wastes have come from the two aforementioned initiatives.

Hashtag: #FoodSmartPartnershipProgramme